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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 (1412)	1/6/2002 8:31:31 AM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

Israel: Arafat approved weapons ship smuggling operation Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat almost certainly personally approved the attempt to smuggle over 50 tons of arms on the ship that was captured by IDF commandos in the Red Sea on Thursday, Israeli intelligence sources said Saturday. The sources said the arms had cost the Palestinians $15 million, plus another $400,000 for the ship itself, adding that such an expensive deal would almost certainly have been personally approved by Arafat, as he usually was the one to give the green light to exceptional expenditures. The sources said Arafat's personal approval would also have been needed for the contacts with Iran, which Israel believes supplied the weapons, as the operation was considered a sensitive matter because of Iran-U.S. relations. haaretzdaily.com