"They will have to get rid of all their terrorist capabilities," he said, acknowledging this could take years.
A new international peace plan, known as the road map, calls on the Palestinian leadership as a first step to begin "dismantlement of terrorist capabilities and infrastructure".
* Rebuilt and refocused Palestinian Authority security apparatus begins sustained, targeted and effective operations aimed at confronting all those engaged in terror and dismantlement of terrorist capabilities and infrastructure.
Israel should not seek to take back the administration of Palestinian cities, but it must dismantle the terrorist capabilities located in these areas.
The road map calls for the "dismantlement of terrorist capabilities" and "confiscation of illegal weapons".Mr Sharon and Mr Blair remained at odds, too, over the "security fence" that Israel is building down the West Bank border.
In the first phase, Palestinian security forces are supposed to begin "sustained, targeted, and effective operations aimed at confronting all those engaged in terror and dismantlement of terrorist capabilities".
I don't think we could have done anything to prevent the blast in Bali -- but the attack does suggest that our early military success in Afghanistan has done little to weaken terrorist capabilities.
In one case in Kashgar, eight people formed a group that "organized training in terrorist capabilities, bought weapons, and planned to assassinate local law enforcement officers and police," engaged in illegal religious proselytizing, and collected money to send supporters abroad, the report said.
Israel officials seized on that attack, a violation of a declared Palestinian suspension of violence, to renew their call for the Palestinian Authority to begin dismantling "terrorist capabilities and infrastructure," as called for in the first phase of the peace plan.
