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| Fires came from inside the church... |
| 2002-05-03 |
| Israeli security officials said yesterday the fires that broke out inside the church compound in the Orthodox and Franciscan living quarters early Thursday morning were purposely set by the gunmen, and were timed to coincide with prime time US TV coverage of the withdrawal of troops from around Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat’s Mukata building in Ramallah and his first statements to foreign press crews. Film footage taken by an IDF surveillance balloon over the compound clearly shows that the windows had been blown out due to the force of the heat, and the shattered glass lay on the ground below. Not being good with cause and effect, that's not the sort of evidence the Palestinians would think of cleaning up. Being determined to be on the PA side, World Opinion® will ignore that little bit of physical evidence, just like they ignore the number of actual bodies at Jenin. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |