David Bedein

--Israeli troops placed the center of Nablus under curfew Sunday and began to search for wanted men and bomb factories, reportedly finding some of both. This large scale operation is named "Hot Winter." Soldiers were stationed outside of hospitals in Nablus so as to prevent wanted men from finding sanctuary among the ill and ailing. According to Israeli media reports, the operation is expected to last an unspecified number of days.--Arabs Murder Jew At Prayer

"The enemies' sanction on Iran's aerospace and electronics industries made our experts more decisive to continue the path of progress and reach the peaks of glory and honor in these fields," he said.

In his interrogation by Israeli intelligence, the would-be bomber apparently fingered the wanted man as his handler, who planned the bombing, recruited the bomber and prepared the explosive charge for the attack.

"The enemies' sanction on Iran's aerospace and electronics industries made our experts more decisive to continue the path of progress and reach the peaks of glory and honor in these fields," Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mustafa Mohammad Najjar said, addressing the 6th conference of Iran's Aerospace Association in Tehran on Saturday.

It was a race against the clock after Israeli intelligence learned that the terrorist strapped with bombs to his chest was already on his way to detonation in a crowd of people at a pedestrian mall.

--All indications are that Israel will continue to hold talks about a future Palestinian state with PA Chairman Abbas even if the new Palestinian national unity government with Hamas does not recognize Israel and does not combat terrorism--Egypt Becomes Leading Source Of Fatah Weapons

"I am not like the others, who lie and say that we have no arms while we accumulate and distribute them," the leader of Hezbollah said. "We can reveal that we have arms, and of all kinds. We move them covertly, and Israel does not know about it."

The working class city of Sderot (est. pop. 20,000), in southern Israel, is possibly the first city since Sarejevo to live under constant bombardment of its civilian population for a sustained period of time. One by product of this situation is that the small mental health trauma unit in Sderot was simply no longer able to meet the needs of the situation, with more than 3,000 people in Sderot in treatment for the after effects of shock, anxiety and stress.