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

To: David Alon who wrote (1021)	12/4/2001 12:45:17 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

David, do you think that Debka now regrets yelling at Sharon for meeeting with Bush before he flew home? 3 December: According to DEBKAfile’s most reliable sources, the major Israeli offensive scheduled for the next hours or days to smash the Palestinian terrorist machine, will in fact open America’s second front against world terrorism. This was the upshot of the hasty interview that took place at the White House Sunday night, December 2, between Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon and President George W. Bush, attended also by US secretary of state Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condaleezza Rice. The key decision of this decidedly unusual encounter of just over one hour was that the next phase of the war against world terrorism would not be launched against Iraq, Somalia or Sudan, but against the Palestinian and Lebanese Shiite Hizballah terror machines. At the same time, Yasser Arafat was given his last chance to prove himself as Palestinian leader, despite the rising clamor in Israel to get rid of him as the prime cause of the terror that left 26 Israelis dead and more than 200 injured in the last two devastating terrorist attacks in Jerusalem and Haifa, Saturday and Sunday. What Sharon proposed to Bush – and will almost certainly put before the full-scale cabinet session scheduled for Monday night, December 3 - will be to assign Israeli Defense Forces the task of smashing Palestinian terrorist organs – including the Palestinian Authority’s preventive security and intelligence branches which answer to Arafat personally. Their targets will include senior Palestinian officers engaged in terrorist activities, like the Gazan preventive security chief Muhamed Dahlan, the West Bank general intelligence chief Col. Tawfiq Tirawi and the Tanzim militia leader Marwan Barghouti. The immunity they and their following have hitherto enjoyed from Israel attack is to be lifted. debka.com