AFTER RECENT TERRORIST ATTACK IN PRISTINA A NEW ATTACK IN PEC
Explosion in Pec: No one hurt, nine vehicles damaged
PRISTINA, February 26, 2007 (Beta) - Seven OSCE vehicles and two private automobiles were damaged early this morning in an explosion in Pec, and no one was injured, advised the Kosovo Police Service (KPS) today. "Immediately upon arriving on the scene, the police noticed that seven OSCE vehicles and two private vehicles parked next to them were damaged," said a written statement, adding that the explosion occurred this morning at about 3:30. Police also advised that a second explosive device had been found where the explosion occurred, which failed to explode.
27 Febrero 2007
LAS REACCIONES DEL PRESIDENTE
De paranoias y bajos instintos
Claudia López. Columnista de EL TIEMPO.
El Presidente está a la defensiva. Dando palos de ciego, ve terroristas y guerrilleros por todas partes. Da la impresión de que siente que la 'parapolítica' es simplemente un complot en su contra. Dice sentirse solo. Parece no entender que mientras más intolerante, menos realista y más a la defensiva esté, más solo se sentirá.
La 'parapolítica' no es responsabilidad exclusiva suya ni de su gobierno, señor Presidente. Pero ¿ha caído en cuenta de que por desconocerla ha tomado, quizá, las decisiones más equivocadas de su vida política?
Para empezar ha decidido adoptar un estilo intolerante con discurso fascista, que bien puede dejarle a Carlos Castaño. Usted será un político de extrema derecha, pero no dudo de que es un demócrata, como para competir en estilo y discurso con un asesino recalcitrante que veía guerrilleros hasta en la sombra y salía a cazarlos creyendo hacer una gesta patriótica. Por esa vía creció el narcotráfico y se llegó al genocidio de la UP, a cientos de masacres y a miles de asesinatos. Supongo que usted no querrá ser el responsable de algo similar. Recuerde lo que aprendió en Harvard: duro con el problema y suave con las personas.
Ese es el segundo tema. El problema. Usted tiene el gran mérito de haber convencido a esta sociedad de que la guerrilla es un problema, no una solución. Eso lo llevó a su primera victoria y su posterior reelección. Pero el acierto de su segundo mandato y su papel histórico dependen de que se convenza y convenza a esta sociedad de que el paramilitarismo también es un problema.
Punto. Sin justificaciones. No se preocupe. No se nos va a olvidar que la guerrilla es un problema. Piénselo. Mientras más se estabilice la mejoría de los indicadores de seguridad, más legitimidad política necesitará la seguridad democrática para mantener la confianza.
Y valga decir que su evidente nerviosismo no ayuda a aquello de la legitimidad o la confianza. Su actitud inspira temor y muchas dudas. Los que tienen por qué estar alebrestados y a la defensiva son los criminales que puso presos en Itagüí y los políticos que seguirán desfilando por la Picota, no usted. Luce usted más preocupado en contener el escándalo y reaccionar a los hechos que ellos.
Con apenas unas cuantas verdades a medias y las primeras decisiones judiciales está en las que está, ¿de verdad cree que puede, o quiere, pasarse los tres años y medio que le quedan tapando el sol con un insulto diario o un golpe de opinión? ¿A qué horas va a construir el Estado comunitario si se la pasa en esas? ¿No lo deja pensando que su senadora más joven sí tenga tiempo de pensar en soluciones y usted no, y más bien tenga que salir a recogerlas como del ahogado el sombrero?
El paramilitarismo y la 'parapolítica' no son un complot en su contra. Son una realidad que atenta en general contra el país y en particular contra su legado político. Mientras más evidencias aparecen, más queda usted solo tratando de convencernos de que no hay problema, de que son apenas "unas manzanas podridas". Eso es inverosímil cuando las manzanas pululan, y cuando están casi todas en su canasta. Ahora que estamos indigestados no puede simplemente salir a golpear primero y lamentar la soledad después. Nos quejamos porque el malestar nos está matando. Y esperamos que usted, que salió a la plaza a decirnos que compráramos y nos comiéramos confiados esas manzanas (primero las mal llamadas Convivir, luego los Pedro Juanes y Rito Alejos, luego los 'parapolíticos' y los Nogueras, etc, etc.), nos ayude a curarnos. No que nos amenace o nos tape con la esperanza de que no se note la enfermedad.
El país necesita un Presidente que lidere las reformas institucionales que eviten que mafias armadas sigan intoxicándonos. Usted, señor Presidente, puede y debe ser parte de la solución. ¿Por qué escoge ser parte del problema?
27 Febrero 2007
Two Palestinians arrested for murder of Israeli man
By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff
The Israel Defense Forces yesterday arrested two Palestinian youths in the murder of an Israeli whose body was found north of Hebron late Sunday. In Nablus, military operations continued for a second day, with tens of thousands of residents confined to their homes.
Police say Erez Levanon, 42, from the Bat Ayin settlement in Gush Etzion, had been stabbed by Palestinians.
Levanon, married and a father of three, regularly went alone to a wooded wadi about 300 meters from Bat Ayin. He was well-known in the Bratslav Hasidic community as a guitar player, songwriter and performer.
The suspects, Mudar Abu Dia and Musa Ahalil, both 17, from the nearby village of Khirbat Safa, were arrested overnight in a village near the murder site.
They confessed under interrogation, saying they had planned the murder in advance and visited the site several times to gather information, Shin Bet sources said.
The suspects said the murder was committed for nationalist reasons and thay they were working alone, without any connection to organized terror groups.
An estimated 400 mourners yesterday followed the funeral procession from Bat Ayin to the cemetery in Kfar Etzion.
Friends of Levanon said he used to drive daily to the secluded area in the wadi to pray, gain inspiration and write music.
The largest Israeli raid in the West Bank for months continued yesterday, with a full curfew imposed on tens of thousands of Nablus residents as soldiers raided the city's old market in search of militants and arms.
The forces, consisting of four IDF battalions and a large contingent of Border Police, uncovered an explosives laboratory, the second in 24 hours.
The laboratory, which contained two gas canisters, pipe bombs, explosives, computers and electrical equipment, was the third uncovered by the IDF since Saturday.
Earlier yesterday, a Palestinian man was killed and his son was injured during the IDF operation in Nablus. Anan al-Tibi, 50, was killed by a bullet to the neck while walking down a street with his son in the Old City, Palestinian sources said. His son sustain bullet wounds in his leg. wounded in his leg from the gunfire. The two were unarmed civilians who were in violation of the IDF curfew, the sources said.
Israeli sources said soldiers shot Tibi and his son, an armed Islamic Jihad activist, as they stood on the roof of their house. Residents threw stones at soldiers in response to the shooting.
IDF troops sealed off the center of Nablus' Old City with cement blocks and trash containers yesterday, and moved from apartment to apartment in search of seven Palestinian fugitives whose names the army broadcast over local TV and radio stations.
IDF troops also arrested the manager of the city's local television station, 43-year-old Naif Bariq.
Nablus's schools and the university remained closed on Monday, and reports from Nablus indicate that one of the schools has been transformed into a makeshift holding facility, where the IDF rounds up Palestinians and conducts preliminary investigations.
Residents said soldiers moved from house to house, searching every room. Mohammed Attireh, 47, who lives in the area, said all the residents of his building were ordered to stay in his apartment while troops searched the other apartments. Then the group of more than 20 people was taken to another house, while soldiers searched his apartment.
In a new tactic, troops broke into transmissions of local TV and radio stations Sunday and broadcast the names of the men, all residents of the old city. Soldiers warned civilians against hiding the fugitives.
Abir Kilani, director of the local TV station Gama, said her broadcasts were interrupted several times by the army.
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