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To: Win Smith who wrote (25769)	4/17/2002 11:00:11 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Here's a very recent update from The Palestine News Agency... [this is how they are currently viewing things] wafa.pna.net Israel is proceeding in its unleashed brutal offensive Ramallah -April 17 ,2002-Wafa -Israeli occupation forces rolled into a West Bank town and four villages near the occupied holy city of Jerusalem on Tuesday, imposing curfews as part of its ongoing brutal war against the Palestinian people. After nightfall, the occupation forces entered Issawiyah, a Palestinian village near the occupied holy city of Jerusalem, declared a curfew and ordered residents out of their houses, witnesses said. In Bethlehem, heavy gunfire could be heard near the Church of the Nativity on Tuesday evening, with flares and gray smoke visible over the compound. One injury was reported. In the Gaza strip Israeli occupation troops killed one Palestinian and injured three others during tanks shelling on Beit Lahia north of Gaza. Officials in the Israeli occupation army also confirmed Tuesday that the occupation government in Israel had reopened the Ketziot desert detention camp known as ANSAR 3 to hold thousands Palestinians arrested in it's 19-day offensive. Thus far, more than 300 prisoners have been moved to the tent camp, according to the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem. During the 1987-93 uprising, thousands of Palestinians were held at Ketziot, which became notorious for its conditions, including searing heat and bitter cold winter nights. Early Tuesday, Israeli occupation troops reoccupied Tulkarem, one of two cities they had withdrawn from some parts of it April 9, under cover of attack helicopters. In the Raffidiyeh area of Nablus, the occupation troops ordered men out of apartment buildings and took them to an area school, witnesses said. Among those detained and handcuffed was journalist Mohammed Daraghmeh, 38, who has covered the northern West Bank for The Associated Press news agency. The AP protested Daraghmeh's detention. Dan Seaman, director of the so called Israel's Government Press Office, responded that "there's no immunity for journalists. He (Daraghmeh) is a Palestinian, and he was arrested like thousands of other Palestinians. He'll be questioned, and if there's no problem he'll be released." Before dawn Tuesday, the occupation tanks and armored personnel carriers rolled into Abu Dis, Izzariyeh and Sawahra As-Sharkiyeh, three Palestinian suburbs of the occupied east Jerusalem. Troops declared a curfew, confining tens of thousands of residents to their homes. Meanwhile Palestinian officials have rejected the statement of Ariel Sharon to the CNN on the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces from Nablus and Jenin in the few coming days. Palestinian Minister of Culture and Information Yasser Abed Rabbo told Wafa that Israel must withdraw from all Palestinian cities and villages as one package and that there will be no compromise on this issue. "This is part of the Israeli maneuvers and it will not hide the truth that Sharon is trying to cover for the war crimes he committed against the Palestinian people," he said. Abed Rabbo added that US Secretary of State Colin Powell will meet with H.E. President Yasser Arafat today to discuss the withdrawal of the occupation forces from the Palestinian areas that had reoccupied. On the idea of holding an international peace conference, the minister said that Sharon presents ideas to abort any serious peace talks and makes maneuvers regarding the Arab peace initiative that linked a full Israeli withdrawal from Arab lands to the normalization of relations. H.E President Arafat also requested from Qatar, which holds the rotating chairmanship of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, OIC, an urgent summit of Islamic nations to "take the suitable measures to prevent the continuation of the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people," according to the President adviser Nabil Abu Redeneh.

To: Win Smith who wrote (25769)	4/17/2002 11:10:46 AM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

my favorite Debka story <sigh> the "good old days" when things were just "Good and Evil"... --fl@gray,allisgray.com

To: Win Smith who wrote (25769)	4/17/2002 4:33:25 PM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 281500

<<<"Intelligence experts" like that make the legions of bloviating pundits toeing the Perle/Wolfowitz line look like the very picture of intellectual integrity and independent thought, relatively speaking.>>> Don't agree, but enjoyed the way you put it. Please note, however, that if this board is a correct reflection, the 'other side' is 'bloviating' just as hard - and louder... g/ng I do remember when this particular Debka story first came out... I'm still not sure what to make of it. China has a Muslim population, I believe, of tens of millions, but I sort of doubt that Beijing would take the risk of allowing them to get radicalized.