Two worshippers participating in an annual Jewish pilgrimage to a renowned Tunisian synagogue and two members of the security services were shot dead Tuesday in an attack carried out by a police officer, the interior ministry said. Four other visitors to the Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba and five more security officers were wounded in the attack before the assailant was also killed, the ministry said.
Iraq came out “victorious” and exhausted after its long war with Iran. Saddam Hussein rejoiced because he lived long enough to see Khomeini reluctantly agree to a ceasefire without achieving his dream of toppling the Baath regime in Baghdad. The general impression was that the regime would now be preoccupied with treating its wounds and paying back its massive debts. No one predicted that Saddam would make the suicidal move of invading Kuwait.
There may be considerable debate about how best to topple terroristregimes, but a war against terrorism that dodges the issue ofregime change in such countries as Afghanistan and Iraq is doomedto failure.