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

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (573)	11/24/2001 10:40:36 PM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

But lets give these animals their own state! One Dead & Two Wounded in Gaza Attacks Attacks continue round-the-clock in Gaza without an end in sight. At the time of this report, residents of southern Gaza communities are ordered to remain in safe rooms with the realization that additional attacks are likely tonight. (Saturday, 24 November, 2001-21:51) As terrorist mortar, rocket, grenade, and gunfire attacks continue against Gaza’s civilian Jewish population, the residents of Israel’s southern Mediterranean coast find themselves spending more time in safe rooms and bomb shelters trying to remain out of harms way. One Israeli was killed on Saturday night when a mortar crashed into the heart of Kfar Darom in southern Gaza. The attack came as youths affiliated with the Bnei Akiva Zionist Youth Movement around the country were wrapping up a ‘Shabbat Irgun,’ taking part in Saturday night activities. The victim of the attack, a male, was seriously injured. An air force helicopter was immediately summoned for transport but the victim was pronounced dead prior to the chopper taking off for the trauma center. Two others were wounded in the attack, one moderately and one light. Mortars were also fired at N’vei Dekalim on Saturday night, also in southern Gaza. Gunfire and anti-tank grenades were directed at the community’s industrial zone while on the Sabbath, rockets were fired at Dugit. On Friday, a mortar pounded down into a bedroom where a 10-month-old infant was asleep. The child was unharmed. Attacks continue round-the-clock in Gaza without an end in sight. At the time of this report, residents of southern Gaza communities are ordered to remain in safe rooms with the realization that additional attacks are likely tonight.

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (573)	11/24/2001 10:43:13 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

An Iraqi Idea of Dialogue 21 November 2001 Addressing the leaders of the Kurdish enclave in the northern part of Iraq through the Iraqi daily ath-Thawra, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was quoted as warning Kurds that if dialogue does not succeed in restoring Iraqi rights, then “the Iraqi sword should be used to recover [them]… We are not incapable of using arms, even in the presence of the Americans and British in the north and south of the country…” Apparently indirectly referring to the communique published by Jalal Talabani, head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), wherein the PUK rejected Hussein’s overtures, Saddam further counseled the Kurds that “[w]isdom must be the foundation of any dialogue to resolve problems between people…” If not, Hussein’s Ba’ath Party newspaper quotes him as saying, “One day we will cut out the tongue of he who pronounced these words [of the PUK communique].” Accusing Jalabani, but not by name, of wanting only “to talk to the Americans and the Zionists,” Saddam is quoted as stating that “we want to talk to our Kurdish people.” While he claims that no one can stop him from visiting “the provinces of Kurdistan… I do not go for psychological reasons…” quotes the newspaper. What those “psychological reasons” are, he did not tell ath-Thawra.

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (573)	11/25/2001 10:10:54 AM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Shin Bet uncovers Iraqi-sponsored Palestinian terror cell By Amos Harel, Ha'aretz Correspondent The Shin Bet security service recently arrested 15 Palestinians who were members of a terror group operated by Iraq. The detainees, residents of the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Jenin, are connected to the pro-Iraqi Palestine Liberation Front (PLF). Some of those arrested underwent military training in Iraq. The PLF carried out the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship, during which they held some 450 passengers for three days and murdered American Leon Klinghoffer. The current Shin Bet investigation has found that Iraqi intelligence agents delivered funding for the group's operations. It has also found that some weapons were smuggled into the West Bank via the Allenby Bridge in the car of Abed al Razak Yechia. Yechia, a Palestinian, held a VIP permit which exempted his car from searches by Israeli security at the border. Members of the group have admitted to the July kidnapping and murder of Israeli teen Yuri Gushstein from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze'ev and to planting an explosive device at the Checkpoint Junction near Haifa, which lightly injured five Israelis. According to Shin Bet, members of the group planned to carry out high profile attacks at Ben Gurion International Airport, in central Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv.