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International | MIDDLE EAST: Leaders of the Palestinian Authority are condemning last week's attack on Americans in Gaza, but U.S. officials say Palestinian leaders could have and should have done more to prevent it | Mindy Belz

PRESSURED TO TAKE TERROR seriously, Palestinian police last week arrested three members of a small militant group with a possible connection to a deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic convoy. A roadside bomb demolished an armor-plated vehicle carrying U.S. officials in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 15, killing three American security guards and wounding a fourth.

The three suspects in the attack are members of the Popular Resistance Committees, a group of dozens of armed men, including many former members of the Palestinian security forces and disgruntled followers of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. In spite of the arrests, the United States isn't letting Mr. Arafat off the hook in the first such attack on a U.S. target in the disputed territory. "Palestinian authorities should have acted long ago to fight terror in all its forms," said President George W. Bush.

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October 25, 2003, Vol. 18, No. 41

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