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Mohammed Rashid: Arafat�s Money Man
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Speaking in St. Petersburg, Russia, President Bush was surprisingly frank about his desire for moderate Arab nations, such as Jordan and Saudi Arabia -- as well as Palestinian leaders inside Arafat's circle -- to either force Arafat to change or ease him out of the picture. "Evidently, there is a new attitude emerging among the new leadership of the Palestinian Authority" about Arafat's capabilities, Bush said. (Washington Post/AP) An intense debate among President Bush and his top advisers over whether to press for the removal of Yasser Arafat has effectively frozen the nation's Middle East policy, according to some administration officials. It has also prompted CIA Director George Tenet to delay his mission to the region. Last week senior Arafat adviser Muhammad Rashid was in Washington where he discussed the "centrality" of Arafat's role with Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. (New York Times) The Muslim Hackers Club, an anti-West cyberterrorist group, offers a crash course in digital sabotage. The FBI has warned that the club had conducted classes on how to mount terror attacks on computer networks. Anti-Israel hacker attacks have penetrated databases maintained by AIPAC and defaced helpingisrael.com. (Newsweek)
News Resources - Israel and Mideast:
Early Monday, IDF troops reentered areas of Bethlehem and immediately blocked off access to the Church of the Nativity to prevent terrrorists from seeking refuge at the site. Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said Palestinians militants are sending one to two suicide attackers daily into Israel. (Ha'aretz) IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz said yesterday, "As long as Arafat is the leader responsible for reform, then there will not be reforms. He will crush it." He also said there remains a strong nucleus of terrorists doing their best to carry out attacks. (Jerusalem Post) Five Israeli Arabs were indicted Thursday in Nazareth district court on charges that they assembled bombs based on instructions taken from a Saudi TV program. The program explained in detail how to build a bomb from readily available materials. One of the defendents had a finger blown off in April while building a bomb. (Jordan Times)
Global Commentary and Think Tank Analysis
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Saudi cooperation with our efforts to track down the financing of al Qaeda appears to be somewhere between minimal and zero. Far from aiding our efforts against terrorism, the Saudis have worked against them -- to protect the terrorists in their own ranks. The Saudis are waging war against us, financing the spread of the idea that our free society must be overthrown and totalitarian Wahhabi Islam must be imposed by force. (U.S. News) As part of the U.S.-Saudi agreement reached during Crown Prince Abdullah's April visit to America, Israel acquiesced to Bush's request to lift the siege on Arafat's Ramallah compound, while the Saudis undertook to persuade Arafat to help stop the suicide terrorism. It is now clear that Saudi pressure on Arafat to end the terror strikes has failed. It is also clear to the Saudis that the movement that Arafat heads, Fatah, and its military wing, are directly linked to the terrorism. (Ha'aretz) In the current war, 25% of all Jewish deaths have been women (126 individuals), compared with 2.8% among Palestinians. Some 35% of deaths have been of middle-aged and older Israelis (age 40+), compared to 11% among Palestinians. (Jerusalem Post) Long-standing tensions between the population of poverty-stricken Gaza and the residents of the West Bank, who are far better off, have surfaced in the struggle between Palestinian security chiefs Jibril Rajoub and Mohammed Dahlan. "We won't let the Gazan (Mohammed Dahlan) and his Kurdish friend (Mohammed Rashid, an adviser to Arafat) rule over us," said young people from Ramallah to foreign journalists. (Ha'aretz) Time is not on the president's side. He has lost considerable momentum in the war against terror and weapons of mass destruction. (Weekly Standard) The British media devoted page upon page, day after day, to tales of mass murders, common graves, summary executions, and war crimes by Israel in Jenin. (National Review) Saudi Media Blitz Failing (Adobe Acrobat file) According to a new national poll, the recent media campaign sponsored by the Saudi Arabian government to prop up its image in the U.S. is failing.
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