Arafat could not or would not control Hamas and now his organization is working with Hamas on terrorist attacks.
Tim, first of all, the above is pure speculation on your part unless you have links that agree with your premises unequivocably.
Escuse me? What part is speculation. That Arafat either could not or would not control Hamas and other terrorists? That is established fact. Its established fact because they where participating in terrorism. They did commit terrorist attacks. So either Arafat could not stop them or would not stop them. Which one might be speculation, but its acedemic because he's not even trying to control them now.
Or are you saying that its speculation that organizations controled by Arafat are participating in terrorism now?
What do you think the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade is? Its part of the PLO, and its under control of the Fatah faction.
"A member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs
Brigade, linked with Arafat's own Fatah organization,
detonated a bomb in a Tel Aviv coffee bar Saturday night,
killing himself and wounding more than 30 Israelis"
time.com
"Mr. Barghouti's forces comprise Tanzim, Fatah's official military wing, and the somewhat more shadowy Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which has claimed responsibility for a number of killings."
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"Early on during the Al Aqsa Intifada, the Fatah reconstituted, consolidated and expanded its military wing, in a move designed to unite all Fatah fighters and improve the armed struggle against Israel.
The new body, the armed militias, were called the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and include most of the fighters within the Fatah (PLO). The power bases in the movement's leadership are located in Nablus and Ramallah. The direct involvement of Marwan Barghouti, who heads the PLO in Judea & Samaria, in directing Brigade's attacks, was recently exposed. Findings from the interrogation of Fatah activists who shot and murdered a Greek Orthodox monk near Jerusalem on June 14th 2001 (they mistook him for a Jew) confirmed that Barghouti had instructed the activists to perpetrate the attack and had even financed it. It would appear that Mahmud Damrah, a commander in the presidential Force 17 in Ramallah, was involved in organizing terror attacks perpetrated by the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which is part of the Fatah movement, is loyal to the movement's ideology, and translates the movement's political line into terrorist activity against Israel. The Brigades view the armed struggle as the only way to "free Palestine," and on this basis consider terrorist attacks and the murder of Israeli civilians to be legitimate ways of serving their key national goals as well as their intermediate objective of forcing the Israeli settlers to abandon their settlements by force of arms.
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades have established an organizational structure which operates through the terrorist organizations, and includes: "military units" responsible for carrying out the attacks, and "security units" which are responsible for planning the attacks and the organization's internal security.
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades work in close cooperation with other terrorist organizations (particularly the Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front) operating in Judea & Samaria and the Gaza Strip. This cooperation includes: setting the policy of attacks, carrying out the attacks by joint terrorist cells, the purchase and transfer of weapons and explosives, sharing know-how and information.
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, armed with a variety of weapons (including mortars and anti-tank missiles) have in recent months carried out hundreds of terror attacks (shooting from automatic and semi-automatic weapons, planting explosive devices, firing mortars) against Israel, including inside the "Seam Line" (and Jerusalem), and they repeatedly threaten to carry out organized attacks against Israeli civilians in Israeli settlements in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. "
jafi.org.il
"The Palestinian dead, according to Israeli officials, included the suspected mastermind of last month's Passover suicide bombing, which killed 26 people, and a top commander of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a militia linked to Mr. Arafat's Fatah movement. Both killings represent a coup for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has been under pressure to produce results in the eight-day-old campaign. "
"In a failed suicide attack, the leader of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Nasser Awais, died when explosives strapped to his body went off prematurely in Nablus, said Abu Mujahed, a spokesman of the militia group. Al Aqsa has claimed responsibility for scores of shooting and bombing attacks against Israelis over the past 18 months of conflict.
dallasnews.com
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Secondly, you think its a disagreement? Bush told Israeli to pull back. Sharon flipped him the bird.......nicely. I think that's a little more than a disagreement.
Someone tells you to do something. You say no. That's a disagreement.
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