Yasser Arafat has approved plans to send 30 suicide bombers to Jerusalem, Israeli military intelligence officers said. The officers said Arafat approved plans for a combined effort by his Fatah movement and such Islamic opposition groups as Hamas and Islamic Jihad to send at least 30 suicide bombers to Jerusalem. The officers said Jerusalem was chosen because of its symbolic importance to Arafat and his efforts to convert the city into a Palestinian capital. "The operation is meant to carry out Arafat's threat to send what he terms a million martyrs to Jerusalem," an intelligence officer said. "When Arafat talks of martyrs, he means suicide bombers."
The source is World Tribune, which is slightly less reliable than Debka, but it's not an unexpected move. Stupid, but not unexpected.On the other hand, Israeli military intelligence is probably monitoring the Ramallah compound so closely that they'd probably know the last time he showered, let alone made a significant decision.
Posted by Tom Roberts 4/2/2002 6:03:08 PM |