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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (7022)9/22/2002 2:42:41 AM
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Golly, Ray, you have the corner on the truth market?...I don't agree. Ain't America great!...jj

US, Israel Join to End Arafat's Regime
DEBKAfile Special Report
21 September: Israel's military's Operation
Absolute, which has
flattened building
after building in
Yasser Arafat's
government
compound in
Ramallah, is aimed at
more than winkling
out the 50 hardcore terrorist chiefs he harbors, or even
retribution for the fresh wave of suicide terror he
unleashed against Israel this week at the cost of nine
Israeli lives. This operation was planned jointly in
Washington and Jerusalem as a strategic step in the
military and intelligence preparations that are bringing
open war on Iraq very close.
It has exposed to the light of day a manifestation that
DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources began noting in
early 2001; Arafat’s intelligence machine, which runs
his terror arms – Fatah, Tanzim, Force 17 and the al
Aqsa Martyrs Brigades - is partially manipulated and
financed by Saddam Hussein’s military intelligence.
Arafat’s associate terror arms, such Hamas, Jihad
Islami, Popular Front, are controlled and funded by
Saudi and Syrian interests and the Hizballah. Iraqi
military intelligence is strongly present behind the
scenes.
The factor most troubling to US war leaders and the
Israeli government is the information that Saddam has
managed to smuggle a set of chemical and biological
weapons to Arafat’s operatives, especially the ones
commanded by General Intelligence chief Tawfiq
Tirawi, who doubles as al Aqsa commander. It is also
feared that Iraq has been allowed to plant its
undercover agents, armed with weapons of mass
destruction, including even radiological devices,
among Arafat’s terror cells.
These discoveries and suspicions prompted Israel’s
all-out operation to cut off Arafat’s links with the
outside world and its efforts to lay hands on Tirawi
and at least 10 other of Arafat’s top guns who shelter
in his quarters. These men are believed to be in
possession of the secret locations of the Palestinian
terrorist rings harboring Iraqi agents and their
weapons of mass destruction.
Smashing this Palestinian-Iraqi connection and its hub
in Ramallah is regarded by the Americans and Israelis
as the key to preventing Saddam mounting an
unconventional warfare attack from Arafat’s terror
base – and not only against Israel.
WMD strikes against Jordan too may be planned. US,
Israel and Jordanian intelligence services have
discovered the two conspirators are considering
shaking King Abdullah’s throne in Amman – or even
overthrowing him before the US military offensive
against Baghdad gets going.
A general terror offensive in Jordan and Israel would,
they believe cripple America’s rear bases in Jordan,
hamstring the units operating in Western Iraq and
disrupt the overland, air and sea routes linking them to
the Mediterranean and Red Sea. Rooting out this
hazard from its Ramallah source is the immediate
objective of IDF Operation Absolute. But not the only
one. DEBKAfile’s analysts report three further goals:
A. Further narrowing down Arafat’s options and
pointing him to his last remaining outlets. The
systematic demolition of his compound in Ramallah
leaves him surrounded with rubble, stripped of the
trappings of government, destroyed its institutions,
cut off his communications and unable to care for his
most basic needs. His only resort is self-exile, either to
the Gaza Strip, whence Israel has begun deporting
terrorists, or an Arab country still willing to accept him
– Yemen or Sudan.
B. Applying to Israel – even through such
intermediaries as the Europeans or the Egyptians – for
safe passage to the Gaza Strip would be tantamount to
abdicating his rule over the West Bank. His favorite
taunt for enemies would rebound against him: “If they
don’t like what I’m doing, let them drink the waters of
Gaza!”
C. Arafat’s disappearance from the West Bank would
facilitate the establishment of Jordanian rule in line
with the Bush master plan for remolding Middle East
boundaries while fighting Saddam in Baghdad.
Jordan has set up its West Bank power base in
Bethlehem, as DEBKAfile reported last month. The
base is secured by the Palestinian Liberation Army Al
Badr unit of the Jordanian army, which is loyal to the
Hashemite crown. As soon as Arafat is out of
Ramallah – or even stranded high and dry in the last
remaining building of his headquarters – Jordan will
pump more troops into the West Bank, including
Ramallah. But Israel tanks will not lift their siege or
relieve his isolation. Operation Absolute will go on to
the end. In the event of a standoff, Israeli troops
already filling the passageways to Arafat’s rooms will
break in and forcibly extract Tirawi and other wanted
terror ringleaders, leaving the leader in solitary
isolation attended by no more than two or three close
aides.

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