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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (241467)	3/24/2002 2:43:21 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Israel targets peaceful UN facilities: UN official says world body targeted by IDF in territories By Reuters Peter Hansen, a senior United Nations relief official, accused Israel on Sunday of targeting U.N. facilities during recent military incursions into Palestinian refugee camps. Hansen also said that despite repeated complaints, Israel had not explained or apologised for assaults that caused nearly $4 million in damage to U.N. installations, smashed dozens of refugee homes and traumatised thousands of refugees. The official said IDF forces had deliberately gone against U.N. facilities, turning U.N. school rooftops into snipers positions and using their yards as tank bases or temporary detention centres to interrogate suspects. Soldiers had also fired at other facilities, including service centres, and ambulances. "Incursions were often directed very deliberately against UNRWA installations," Hansen, head of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), told Reuters in an interview. He said the Palestinian Authority and local committees composed of camp notables had prevented "irregular" Palestinian gunmen from using UNRWA's facilities. Israel denied targeting U.N. facilities and said its operations were aimed at armed Palestinian militants involved in attacks on its citizens and their infrastructure. "Our main struggle is to stop Palestinian terrorist action against innocent Israelis. Where the Palestinian Authority does not fulfil commitments, we are obliged to do that within our right to self-defence," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Yafa Ben Ari told Reuters when asked about Hansen's remarks. Hansen said his field visits to refugee camps, UNRWA clinics and hospitals gave him a different picture. "Armed activists who were there obviously slipped away before the IDF moved in. So the exercise of force was mainly vis-a-vis the civilian population and it was unfortunately quite indiscriminate." 'Many women, children wounded' "The firepower from helicopters, in the nature of things, is not very precisely targeted. In the hospitals and clinics I had a chance to witness the nature of wounds, multiple wounds and there were many women and children who were wounded," Hansen said. UNRWA, set up to care for Palestinians displaced by Israel's founding in 1948, has said that 22 schools, four clinics, two ambulances and four service centres were damaged by Israeli incursions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in March. An UNRWA guard was among more than 100 Palestinians killed by IDF troops during the incursions. Hansen said the incursions cost UNRWA $3.8 million in damage, not counting the costs to 141 refugee homes destroyed during the IDF operations. "We are going to send them (Israelis)a very itemized bill down to the last window that was broken, the walls that were bulldozed and the gates that were blown open."

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (241467)	3/24/2002 3:04:40 PM
From: bonnuss_in_austin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"Rolling Thunder Takes Off" thenation.com ----snip---- <<So Vegas is telling not just out-of-work Enron employees but employees of other companies that they had better start taking seriously the threat posed by corporations so powerful and -- thanks to campaign contributions -- so influential that they think they are above the law.>> bia

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (241467)	3/24/2002 3:07:29 PM
From: bonnuss_in_austin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"The Lollapalooza of the Left" thenation.com ----snip---- <<"This is just what a lot of us have been waiting for -- the call to action," said Cate Read, an airline industry analyst who watched from her Houston office as employees from the nearby Enron building carried their belongings out of the collapsed corporation's headquarters. "People are ready to start making some noise about what's been going on in this country. The media makes it sound like everyone's for everything George W. Bush does and that is just not the case -- not even in Texas." >> And: <<"Let me tell you something about the (president's) 80 percent approval rating..." bellowed the author of the nation's No. 1 best-seller, "Stupid White Men." "It's bullshit" came the yell from a fellow in a cowboy hat. "That's right," responded Moore, "it's bullshit.">> -g- bia