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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: James F. Hopkins who wrote (122)	11/10/2001 5:29:50 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

Remove Hezbollah from terror list: Beirut to US BEIRUT: Lebanon called on Washington Saturday to remove Hezbollah from its terrorist list, arguing that the radical Muslim group was resisting Israel's occupation of Lebanese land and never harmed US interests. Deputy Prime Minister Issam Fares also criticized US White House spokesman Ari Fleischer for saying on Friday that Lebanon's "neutrality is not an acceptable position." Fleischer said "you can't, on the one hand, condemn the al-Qaeda and hug the Hezbollah or hug the Hamas." Al-Qaeda is the network of Osama bin Laden and the prime suspect in the September 11 terror attacks on the United States. Hamas is a radical Palestinian group that regularly carries out attacks on Israeli targets. Fares, a long-time friend of US George W. Bush and his father, as well as of Secretary of State Colin Powell, said "the Lebanese official position toward Hezbollah, which has popular backing, cannot be doubted and cannot be called 'neutral' or 'unacceptable.' "Liberating the land cannot be considered a neutral position," he said. "It is a mistake to make a comparison between the al-Qaeda network ... which Lebanon has condemned, and Hezbollah, which Lebanon considers a resistance party fighting the Israeli occupation. "This is a mistake that cannot be accepted, because Hezbollah was behind the liberation of the parts of southern Lebanon that Israel had occupied for 22 years, during which (Israel) refused to implement UN Security Council Resolution 425." That resolution called for Israel to withdraw from Lebanese territory occupied following its invasion of the country in 1978. "Hezbollah did not carry out any resistance operation against American interests in Lebanon or abroad and did not target civilians in its resistance activities as happened on September 11 at the World Trade Center," he said. Fares reminded Bush that "this issue is very delicate and sensitive in Lebanon." However, he asserted "Lebanon's readiness to counter terrorism, whether at the information level or concerning the freezing of financial assets of terrorist organisations if they are found in Lebanese banks. "The concerned ministries in Lebanon are currently preparing answers to the questions (about terrorist suspects) received a few weeks ago by the foreign ministry from the United Nations Security Council committee," he said. Beirut officially rejected this week a US request to freeze the assets of Hezbollah, which continues to carry out armed operations against the disputed Shebaa Farms area, captured by Israel from Syria in 1967 and now claimed by Lebanon. Hezbollah and a number of Palestinian organisations are on a blacklist published by Washington on November 2, adding to 66 groups and individuals on two earlier lists whose global assets should be frozen. ( AFP ) timesofindia.indiatimes.com

To: James F. Hopkins who wrote (122)	11/10/2001 5:35:57 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Good thing these palestinians are such idiots, they continue to blow themselves up on their way to murder innocents: Sunday, November 11, 2001 Cheshvan 25, 5762 Israel Time: 00:33 (GMT+2) 12:59 09/11/2001 Last update - 18:55 10/11/2001 Palestinian hurt planting explosive device; IDF enters Area A By Baruch Kra, Ha'aretz Correspondent, and agencies Hadas Abutbul: Killed by Tanzim gunmen on Friday. A Palestinian man was wounded Saturday afternoon in the Gaza Strip when an explosive device he was planting on the road leading to the settlement of Neve Dekalim exploded. He was taken to Be'er Sheva's Soroka Medical Center. In a separate incident Saturday afternoon, two anti-tank grenades were thrown at the Gaza Strip settlement of Gadid. No injuries were reported. The Israel Defense Forces entered Palestinian-controlled Area A in the early hours of Saturday morning and carried out an operation in the West Bank village of Arakeh, next to the city of Jenin. IDF troops demolished the house of Nader Mohammed Hamdar, a Fatah activist who carried out a shooting attack in the Afula bus station approximately one month ago. Hamdar killed a soldier and two civilians, and wounded several others before being shot and killed by policemen. The IDF also arrested 12 Palestinans on suspicion of taking part in terrorist activities and leveled two other houses. Palestinian sources said that among those arrested were a police officer and a Palestinian intelligence official. One person was wounded when his house was leveled. The army said that following the Friday attack on an Israeli woman, Hadas Abutbul, all leads that it had pointed to the village. In addition, Palestinian sources reported that the IDF had entered 300 meters into PA-controlled territory near Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Strip. Abutbul, 39, was killed when gunmen fired on her car as she was driving past the village of Yabed. She was returning to her home in the Mevo Dotan settlement from her workplace in the Shaked settlement. Abutbul was hit in the back, and her vehicle then plunged into a wadi on the side of the road. Abutbul was a mother of four children, including a one-year-old baby. The Tanzim militia, which is linked to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization, took responsibility for the attack. In a pamphlet released in Jenin, the organization said the attack was to avenge the killing of two Fatah militants by Israel earlier in the week. The IDF carried out searches in the area, but it is believed that the attackers fled into Palestinian-controlled territory. Early Friday evening, two mortars fired from the Gaza Strip landed inside Israel, reported Israel Radio. Another mortar was fired later and landed in the central Gush Katif bloc of settlements in the Gaza Strip. There were no reports of damage or injuries. Palestinian killed in Gaza Strip IDF soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man, Samir Abu Halib, 37, who was walking in a field near an army post east of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian security officials said Friday. Relatives said the man was mentally disabled and deaf, and that he had not provoked the soldiers in any way. An IDF spokeswoman said the soldiers had shouted at Abu Halib to stop in Arabic and Hebrew as he approached the checkpoint, and had fired warning shots in the air. Only when he was 10 meters from the outpost did they fire at his legs, in accordance with army procedure. The wounded man was immediately treated by an army medic and was transferred to hospital in moderate condition, she said. Palestinian security sources also said that the soldiers contacted the Palestinian authority and asked them to send an ambulance to take his body. Alert continues in south Police in the south continued a manhunt Friday for four Palestinians who were smuggled into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Police believe that one of the men may be in Be'er Sheva and the other three in the Lahish region. Be'er Sheva Magistrate's Court extended Friday the remand of an Israeli man suspected of smuggling the four Palestinians into Israel. His remand was extended for ten days. Police said that the 50-year-old resident of Moshav Shuva, near the southern town of Netivot, helped the infiltrators enter the country. The man admitted to receiving NIS 2,000 to drive them into Israel. The security services have set up roadblocks in order to apprehend the four Palestinians. Several local communities decided to move their children into secure locations in order to prevent them being kidnapped by the infiltrators. haaretzdaily.com

To: James F. Hopkins who wrote (122)	11/10/2001 5:59:16 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Saturday, 10 November, 2001, 14:10 GMT US-Arab relations 'in crisis' Bush's refusal to see Arafat has damaged relations By BBC Middle East correspondent Frank Gardner Relations between Washington and the Arab world are in crisis. No amount of smooth talking by diplomats can disguise the fact that Arabs are deeply and dangerously disillusioned with US policy. The US stance is nothing but a recipe for endless war Lebanese newspaper al-Anwar The bombing of Afghanistan is opposed by most ordinary Arabs, but their leaders had been hoping that consolation would come in the form of a new Middle East peace initiative out of Washington. It has not. Instead, moderate pro-Arab leaders are embarrassed by the US government's offhand treatment of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. On Saturday, the Saudi government-controlled press called President Bush's refusal to meet the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the UN General Assembly "a calculated snub". Insulted The daily Saudi newspaper Arab News said President Bush had to realise that he could not "kick Arabs in the teeth" over the Palestinian issue, yet expect them to fall into line on global terrorism. US Secretary of State Colin Powell, said President Bush would meet Mr Arafat when "the time was right". Arabs are angry that violent Palestinian groups are branded "terrorists" But in the United Arab Emirates, the official government paper al-Bayan accused Washington of not caring about Arab support in its campaign against terrorism. A Lebanese newspaper al-Anwar said the US stance was nothing but a recipe for endless war. Arabs all over the Middle East are angered by Washington's inclusion of violent Palestinian groups such as Islamic Jihad on a list of terror groups. Despite the fact that such groups have sent suicide bombers into Israeli cities, Arabs say that people fighting to liberate their own land should not be labelled as terrorists. Once the war in Afghanistan is over, it is this disputed definition of terrorism that is likely to further widen the rift between America and the Arab world. news.bbc.co.uk