Meanwhile, Sharon's government pressed ahead with the construction of a "security barrier" (construction on the part-wall, part-fence barrier designed to prevent terrorist incursions into Israel from the West Bank had begun in June 2002).
In lieu of all-out counterattack, Sharon is discussing buffer zones to protect Israeli population centers and airfields from terrorist incursions or rockets -- not a wall, certainly not a boundary, but two-mile strips of land with mobile patrols alerted by electronic sensors.
Shortly after our trip, Mali suffered both a military coup and terrorist incursions.
Chávez - not Ecuador's President Rafael Correa - was the first to condemn Colombia's anti-terrorist incursion a mile inside Ecuadorean territory at the weekend and has deployed 10 army battalions close to the border.
The breach will come as an embarrassment to the government as security has supposedly been tightened in recent years in response to the terrorist threat and past incursions.
It proposed a requirement that a person whose citizenship was revoked must have had "intent" to cause a terrorist attack, and added foreign incursion and recruitment to the list of scheduled offences.
Two reporters for Yediot Ahronot, Yigal Sarna and Anat Tal-Shir, once investigated a story that, before Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, which was aimed at rooting out Yasir Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization, Dagan led a secret unit across the border whose mission was to instigate terrorist events that would justify an incursion.
"We lost a lot of patriotism during the Vietnam time," said Ms. Johnson, who as the mother of two sons in their 20's fears that any American incursion into Afghanistan and other terrorist haunts would prove as impossible and ultimately defeating for the nation as Vietnam.
Superintendent Pete Dobson, Gold Commander of Merton Borough Police and the man with overall responsibility for tournament security, said: "We have to cater for all types of incursions, whether they be from terrorist groups, from single protest groups or fixated persons".
Then, they claimed to regard Labor proposals to much the same effect as unjustified incursions on privacy – but the terrorist threats to Australia have not shifted enough, quantitatively let alone qualitatively, to explain their apparent shift of perception.
The conversation lasted four and a half hours and touched on virtually every source of friction between the two countries: Pakistani support of terrorist organizations, American clandestine intelligence operations, NATO incursions on Pakistani airspace, the cross-border firing he had heard about in Khost and, of course, the Navy Seal raid.
