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Middle East
Zinni calls Arafat "an unreformed liar"
2002-01-27
  • Vice President Dick Cheney suggested Sunday that Yasser Arafat and his aides are working with Iran and the terrorist group Hezbollah to get weapons for his Palestinian Authority. Cheney's comments followed remarks by U.S. special envoy to the Middle East Anthony Zinni, over the weekend, that Arafat is "an unreformed liar". Speaking in Washington, Zinni also compared him to a Mafia boss akin to New York Mafioso Carlo Gambino. Zinni also compared the Palestinian security service leaders to Mafia bosses who boast about their weapons and the number of people they have killed.
    Yasser? Lie? Never! Organized like the Mafia? Aw, c'mon! Actually, I can't believe he made such a definite statement of the obvious. He's a diplomat, after all.

    Followup: Zinni's comments turn out to be a false report. The dinner at which he supposedly made the comments never took place, and even if it had, he was out of town. On the other hand, participants in the dinner that never took place said the remarks he never made were "grossly distorted." So there you have it.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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