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Israel, Palestine continue peace talks
The Associated Press
BETHLEHEM, West Bank The first direct negotiations to end a three-week stalemate between Israeli forces and armed Palestinians holed up in one of Christianity's holiest shrines ended yesterday without an agreement, though both sides cited some progress and pledged to continue talking.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, meanwjile, told an American Jewish group he thought a U.S.-sponsored international peace conference could end Mideast hostilities. He credited the Israeli incursion into the West Bank with creating the climate for a settlement.
"Regional peace is within our grasp," Sharon said. "I am optimistic about the future."
Palestinians had been optimistic for a quick resolution in the talks to end the standoff at the Church of the Nativity. But the key dispute remained. Israel says wanted militiamen inside the Church of the Nativity must be
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tried in Israeli courts or exiled abroad; the Palestinians propose sending them to the Gaza Strip under international escort.
Palestinian lawmaker Salah Tamari, who participated in the talks, said both sides were determined to reach a peaceful solution. Israel, he said, had agreed to evacuate four sick people
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from the church compound. He did not say if they were civilians, armed Palestinians or the clerics who have been inside since April 2.
"The meeting was positive and constructive, but we didn't reach
anv agreement," Tamari said.
Gadi Golan, head of religious affairs division at the Israeli foreign ministry, said he had not yet been briefed on the result of the day's talks, which were handled by an all-military team. Army representative Lt. Col. Olivier Rafowicz declined to comment, and his office would only say progress had been made and talks would continue.
Bethlehem Mayor Hanna Nasser called the meeting "important." Tamari said the Gaza proposal "was discussed as an option." Beyond that, he would only say delegates needed to consult with the Palestinian leadership before talks resumed today.
With the Israeli incursion significantly scaled back, gruesome street scenes played out as masked Palestinian militiamen summarily executed fellow Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel. Three men were shot dead in Hebron, and two of the bullet-riddled bodies were strung up by a mob.
The killings were carried out to avenge the Monday night Israeli killing of Marwan Zalloum, commander of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade in Hebron.
"The fate of all collaborators will be like this," a masked milli-tiaman, wearing an Al Aqsa head-band, said before he and six others sped away.
Later yesterday, an explosion rattled the Ramallah headquarters of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Tawfik Tirawi, head of Palestinian intelligence, said Israeli troops tried to destroy a wall between the prison inside the compound and Arafat's office. The army said the blast was the controlled destruction of grenades found in the compound.
In Bethlehem, where about 230 armed Palestinians, including about 30 militiamen, forced their way into the Church of the Nativity.
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Several dozen Palestinian civilians, as well as priests and nuns, also are in the church compound, built over the grotto where tradition holds Jesus was born.
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Pope speaks firmly, addresses pedophilia
The Associated Press
VATICAN CITY — Decrying sex abuse in the church as a sin and a crime, Pope John Paul II told American church leaders yesterday there was no room in the priesthood "for those who would harm the young."
The pope's language was his strongest yet on the molestation scandal that has convulsed the Roman Catholic Church in the United States since January.
The pope's use of the word "crime" seemed to end any lingering debate on whether U.S. bishops should refer abuse accusations against priests to secular authorities.
The Americans worked until 10 p.m. yesterday on a communique expected to come at the close of the two-day summit today.
After the meeting, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago said in an interview with The Associated Press that whatever came out of this week's gathering would be part of the process in which all the U.S. bishops would set a new policy together in June.
John Paul's talk had a striking gloves-off tone compared with many papal utterances.
"People need to know that there is no place in the priesthood
and religious life for those who harm the young," the pope said. That made it obvious abusers must be removed. But what about readmitting them to active ministry after therapy and repentance?
In Mahony's view, the pope "made it very clear that there is no place in the priesthood for anyone who abuses minors."
For the first time this year the pope spoke out for the victims: "To the victims and their families, wherever they may be, I express my profound sense of solidarity and concern."
Two disputes are off the table, Mahony said: whether Boston's embattled Cardinal Bernard Law should resign and whether the church should consider relaxing the celibacy rule for priests. The first is a matter between the pope and Law, he said. The second did not fit this meeting's purpose, though Mahony indicated it would be on the church's future agenda.
Cardinal Adam Maida of Detroit said behavioral scientists think "it's not truly a pedophilia type problem but a homosexual type problem." He said bishops needed to "cope with and address" the extent of a homosexual element in Catholic seminaries.
Possible al-Qaida link found in Germany
The Associated Press
BERLIN Germany claimed yesterday it crushed a terror cell led by a London-based cleric linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network, arresting 11 suspected Islamic militants in raids throughout the country.
Meanwhile, an Algerian defendant admitted in a Frankfurt court that he was involved in a plot to bomb a synagogue in France two years ago.
Police said those arrested in raids in 10 cities yesterday belonged to a Palestinian group known as Al Tawhid, who was allegedly plotting attacks in Germany.
"We've managed to smash a cell which ... particularly against the background of the grave conflict in the Middle East, stood on the brink of attacks in Germany," federal prosecutor Kay Nehm said. "We think we've managed to prevent some things that were being prepared."
In television interviews, Nehm identified the spiritual leader of the group as Abu Qatadah, a Muslim cleric identified by U.S. and European officials as having links to
Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida organization.
A Jordanian of Palestinian descent, Qatadah was convicted in absentia in 2000 by a military court in Jordan on charges of conspiring to attack U.S. and Israeli targets.
German prosecutors said yesterday the suspects in custody were part of a "secret international network" and had provided false travel documents, collected donations and arranged travel for Islamic fighters in Afghanistan.
During the raids, police seized computers, documents and material used to falsify passports.
The prosecutor's office identified only one suspect — Yaser H., a Palestinian living in the western German city of Essen. The 36-year-old was a leading figure in the cell and had contacts across Germany, the statement said.
The arrests follow a flurry of political pledges to crack down on suspected militants since it emerged shortly after Sept. 11 that three of the hijackers, including ringleader Mohamed Atta, had lived in Germany.
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