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Middle East
Yasser free to leave...
2002-09-22
PALESTINIAN leader Yasser Arafat is free to leave the rubble pile he used to live in his besieged headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah at any time and Israel is not looking to hinder his movements, the senior army commander in charge of the Ramallah operation said. "Arafat is free to leave the building at any time, he is not under arrest and our mission is not to hinder his movement, but to question the wanted men inside the building with him," the officer said in a statement.
"Who? Oh, him! He's still around, huh? Naw, we want the gunnies..."
Military estimates put the number of those inside the main building in the Ramallah compound at some 200, including 20 members of Arafat's Fatah movement who are on Israel's wanted list, eight of them senior militants. Israeli security sources named four of the wanted men as West Bank intelligence chief Tawfiq Tirawi, Tirawi's right-hand man Eini al-Halo, Mahmud Dumra the commander of Arafat's presidential guard Force 17, known as Abu Awad and Khaled abu Shawish, another senior member of Force 17.
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"Our mission is to have everyone inside leave the building. The wanted men will be arrested. Anyone who is not wanted for questioning will be released and anyone who needs medical attention and must leave in a ambulance may do so," he said.
"If we could get Yasser to leave and them to stay, we'd drop the house on them and be done with it."
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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