"We know that they are there. We know that they are in Lebanon, working closely with Hezbollah. We know that they are in the region," he said.

What!! Al Qaeda working within a secular, Bathist gov't? Thats just crazy talk. Damn right wingers.

Yeah. They know everything. And then they leak it if it can hurt the administration.

There was that incident maybe 6 weeks ago where three Hamas honchos were kidnapped right off the street and held for a while...

AQ probably sees Gaza as a safe haven, and the PA would want no part of that as it would invite a bunch of USN seals sneaking and peeping around.

I'm sure the CIA has answers to such questions. They know everything RIIIIIIGHT. The C.I.A. is only good at political smear campaigns. It started in the late 1970's andearly 1980' swhenthe C.I.A. went after General Westmoreland in an effort to rehabilitate the C.I.A. by blaming the Vietnam War build up on Westmoreland (they argued that Westmoreland lied to President Johnson about what was actually going on in Vietnam). They are at it agains with Bush--He lied and the C.I.A. is without fault or blemish, or so the C.I.A. political operatives claim. The only thing the C.I.A. really gets right is covering their ass. And oh yes, making millions of dollars out their smear campaign efforts (Richard Clark got $6 million for his "nonfiction" book--more money than he earned in all of his 30 years working at the C.I.A.--what a great crook).

My heart went out to the families who were thrown out of their homes in the "disengagement," but I knew what Sharon was doing. It is a variation of the honeypot trap strategy that the Bush administration has done in Iraq. Gaza can now go from "peaceful Palestinian settlement" to anti-terrorist free fire zone in less than a minute. I just wonder how the PA (and the sympathetic Labor Party) couldn't see their segregation strategy being used against them.

This is an update? The linked BBC article is from December 2002! How does that relate to the bombings in Jordan?