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FBI Probes Arafat for 1973 Murders of 2 U.S. Diplomats

(World Net Daily) Aaron Klein - After 31 years, the FBI has opened an investigation into the involvement of Yasser Arafat in the murders of two U.S. diplomats in Sudan. On March 1, 1973, eight members of the Black September terrorist organization, part of Arafat's Fatah faction of the PLO, stormed the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, reportedly on Arafat's orders, taking U.S. Ambassador Cleo Noel, Charge d'Affaires George Curtis Moore, and others hostage, and one day later, killing Noel, Moore, and Belgian diplomat Guy Eid. James J. Welsh, the National Security Agency's Palestinian analyst at the time of the murders, has said he intercepted a transmission from Arafat involving an imminent operation in Khartoum, and charges the NSA has had tapes of Arafat ordering the executions. Raanan Gissin, chief spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Sharon, said, "We intercepted the phone calls, and the U.S. also corroborated this on their own."
2004-09-10 00:00:00
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