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| Middle East |
| Yasser still won't give up his thugs |
| 2002-04-27 |
| In Ramallah, Israel demands the Palestinians hand over six wanted men inside Yasser Arafat's besieged headquarters. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told Secretary of State Colin Powell by telephone Friday that he was willing to release Arafat from confinement if he agreed to leave for Gaza or anywhere in the West Bank without the wanted men, an Israeli official said on condition of anonymity. It appeared unlikely Arafat would agree since he has said he would not hand over the men - five of whom allegedly were involved in the assassination of an Israeli Cabinet minister and the sixth in arms smuggling. That's a climb-down. They were gonna drive him nutz and ship him to an asylum in Morocco. Then they were gonna toss him to Gaza so he could fight it out with Hamas over whether the town was big enough for both of 'em. Now they're saying he can go somewhere else on the West Bank to do the same thing he did in Ramallah. Bad idea. Very bad idea. Unless his car explodes on the way there. (I shouldn't have said that...) |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |