Finally, on Jan . 20 , 1863Burnside issued his new orders "to strike a great and mortal blow to the rebellion".
He identified those arrested as belonging either to "sleeper cells" waiting for orders to strike or fundamentalist Islamic "warriors".
Labour gets a chance to hit back They may be licking their wounds following last week's pummelling at the Norwich North by-election, but Labour Party employees are already under orders to strike a revenge blow.
A sleeper cell of Al Qaeda, trained in a terrorist camp in Afghanistan and awaiting orders to strike, had been broken up and taken into custody, government officials said.
Federal prosecutors, in announcing the arrests last month and then in nearly a week of courtroom hearings, portrayed the six men as dangerous members of a terrorist cell who had been awaiting orders to strike.
Israeli aircraft and tanks, under cabinet orders to strike at the Palestinian Authority, were told to stand down.At mid-week, despite sporadic incidents in the West Bank and Gaza, and despite the scepticism voiced by all, the ceasefire seemed to be holding.
