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| Contingency plan to toss Yasser... |
| 2002-08-17 |
| Israel's Channel Two television reported yesterday that the army has a contingency plan to grab Arafat and fly him to exile in an Arab country with no diplomatic ties with Israel or close ties to the United States. It named Lebanon as a possible destination. The TV station said the plan, approved in principle by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, entailed a raid on Arafat's compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah by Israeli special forces. The report did not cite any sources. It's just a contingency plan, but the Lebanese are probably just happy as little Islamic clams at the thought of going through that again... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |