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| Middle East |
| Church talks will pick up again |
| 2002-04-24 |
| Palestinian and Israeli negotiators were to hold a second day of talks Wednesday, near the Church of the Nativity, to discuss the fate of around 200 Palestinian gunmen trapped there. Negotiators met twice Tuesday but failed to reach a deal after Israel rejected a reported Palestinian proposal to send suspected militants for trial in the Gaza Strip. The two sides agreed to meet again Wednesday. Make it late Wednesday. Getting kinda hungry in there, isn't it? Heh heh. An Armenian priest and two monks managed to escape from the church on Tuesday after one of them held up a sign at a window reading, "Please help." Narkiss Korassian, one of the monks who fled the church, was quoted in Israel's Jerusalem Post as accusing the Palestinians in the church of looting the site. "They stole everything, they opened the doors one by one and stole everything ... they stole our prayer books and four crosses," he told the daily. Where do they have to take the swag? Are they expecting to escape? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |