Ha'aretz - Peres calls IDF operation in Jenin a 'massacre' Foreign Minister Shimon Peres Peres is very worried about the expected international reaction as soon as the world learns the details of the tough battle in the Jenin refugee camps, where more than 100 Palestinians have already been killed in fighting with IDF forces. In private, Peres is referring to the battle as a "massacre."

Trails of Destruction, Tales of Loss (washingtonpost.com) Many refugees who had fled to town to escape the camp's dusty streets and cinder-block hovels where the bloodiest fighting unfolded said their homes had been pulverized. They described bodies lying in the streets.

Yahoo! News - Powell Calls Off Arafat Meeting Secretary of State Colin Powell called off his Saturday meeting with Yasser Arafat late Friday night after a new suicide bombing spread out before Powell's eyes the carnage he had come to Israel in hopes of ending.

Yahoo! News - Suicide Blast Kills 6 in Jerusalem A Palestinian woman blew herself up Friday in a crowded outdoor market in Jerusalem, killing six shoppers, wounding dozens and further complicating Secretary of State Colin Powell's difficult peace mission.

War criminals face new court | csmonitor.com The UN's vision for a standing international criminal court comes true today, despite US criticism.

Don't bother bombing Afghanistan | csmonitor.com On Sept.12, Tamim Ansary, an Afghan American who lives in the Bay Area, listened with dismay as men and women phoned in to a talk radio show, calling for the US to bomb his homeland "back to the Stone Age."

Child soldiers a growing concern on foreign battlefields From half a globe away, Peter Dak can see familiarity in the hollow eyes of the 14-year-old boy who used an AK-47 assault rifle to kill Fort Lewis Green Beret Sgt. Nathan Chapman, the first American soldier killed in combat in Afghanistan.

INS tightening rules for visitors The Immigration and Naturalization Service yesterday announced far-reaching changes to rules that govern foreign visitors and students, including one proposal that could limit millions of foreign visitors to 30-day stays in the United States.

Defiant Sharon Losing Support in White House (washingtonpost.com) Israel's continued defiance of President Bush's demand for an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from Palestinian cities and towns is eroding support for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon inside the White House, administration sources said yesterday.

Israel Rejects Demands to Withdraw Troops (washingtonpost.com) On the eve of Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's arrival in Jerusalem, a suicide bombing that killed eight Israelis and wounded 14 stiffened the Israeli government's resolve to continue its bloody military offensive in the West Bank in the face of mounting U.S. and other international criticism.

Wayne Madsen: Anthrax and the Agency Now that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has officially put the anthrax investigation on a back burner, it is time for Americans to think the unthinkable: that the FBI has never been keen to identify the perpetrator because that perpetrator may, in fact, be the U.S. Government itself.

Yahoo! News - Palestinian Suicide Bomber Kills 8 on Israeli Bus A Palestinian suicide bomber killed at least eight people when he blew himself up on a bus near the northern Israeli city of Haifa on Wednesday, Israeli police said.

TIME.com: Why Suicide Bombing Is Now All The Rage Among Palestinians, dying to kill has become a noble calling. Here's how the practice went from extreme to mainstream.

Wired 10.04: Peace Is War It's not that terror bombs make good weapons. It's that space-based communication and surveillance make other modes of attack obsolete.

Among the Bourgeoisophobes Why the Europeans and Arabs, each in their own way, hate America and Israel.

The Scotsman - Opinion - George Kerevan: Democracy is the key THE route to a possible solution in the Middle East may lie with the lessons of a rather stern and egotistical son of Scotland, in Asia a few years before Israel was founded in 1948: US General Douglas C McArthur.

Yahoo! News - Israeli Diplomat Grilled at U.N. Frustrated U.N. Security Council members grilled the Israeli ambassador Monday on why Israel had defied repeated demands for an end to increasingly deadly attacks on Palestinian cities.

Plugging a Very Porous Northern Border (washingtonpost.com) Since Sept. 11, More Agents, Technology Patrol Stretches of Long-Neglected 4,000-Mile Line.

Bomb explodes near Afghan minister A bomb exploded Monday near a convoy carrying Afghanistan’s defense minister, killing four bystanders and injuring 16 others.

How Two Lives Met In Death Special report: Suicide bombings have driven the conflict in the Mideast to new and dangerous levels. This is the story of two teens whose paths tragically intersected: an innocent Israeli and the Palestinian girl who became a walking weapon of terror.