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| Payment to Al Aksa sealed Bush call to replace Arafat |
| 2002-06-26 |
| US President George W. Bush decided to call for Yasser Arafat's removal after seeing intelligence reports last week that Arafat had approved a $20,000 payment to the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade, which claimed responsibility for last week's suicide bombing at a bus stop in northern Jerusalem that killed seven, the New York Times reported today. That information, the Times reported, hardened Bush's resolve to seek Arafat's removal. "That was a key," one senior US administration official told the Times. "It sealed it." "Boss, we can't take a post-dated check. They're gonna turn our cable off. Don't worry about it — the Merkins'll never notice." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |