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


To: Scoobah who wrote (1120)12/8/2001 12:34:07 AM
From: Scoobah  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 32591
 
DANGER OF WAR AS ARAFAT HITS AT HAMAS December 7, 2001

The Times reports: “Thousands of Palestinians were on the brink of civil war last night as the people of Gaza prepared to bury a young Hamas activist shot dead by Yassir Arafat’s police.

The 18-year-old supporter of the radical group was killed in the mêlée after a local mosque mobilized an army of young men to protect Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the Hamas leader, from arrest.

‘For now there is a deal between the two sides to stop Palestinian fighting Palestinian,’ Amin Lel-Baloul, a 19-year-old local resident, said. ‘But no one knows how long it will last. The big test will come on Friday morning when they are due to bury the Hamas supporter killed by Arafat’s bullets.’…”