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Nation & World
Hamas attacks kill 31, injure 200
Separate attacks Sunday by Palestinian militants in Jerusalem, Haifa and Gaza killed 31 people and injured nearly 200.
Two suicide attacks in Jerusalem and a Gaza shooting killed 26 people, most of them teens, and injured nearly 200. A suicide bomber detonated nail-studded explosives on a bus full of Israelis in the port city of Haifa, killing 15.
The Palestinian militant group Hamas, which had vowed revenge against Israel for killing one of its leaders last month, claimed responsibility for the attacks.
U.S. President George W. Bush called the attacks “horrific acts of murder” and said terrorists must not be allowed to “destroy the chance of peace.” He also called on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to track down those behind the attacks.
Weather delays defense missile test
Cloud cover over California forced Pentagon officials to postpone the fifth test of a prototype national missile defense system Saturday night.
Concern about static interference resulting from the weather prevented the launch of a target missile.
The test was to follow the same scenario as past trials. A target missile would be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base northwest of Los Angeles, Calif. and arc across the Pacific, releasing a mock warhead and a balloon decoy. The interceptor missile would be launched 20 minutes later from Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific.
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