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Politics : The Palestinian Hoax -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kirby49 who wrote (2855)	10/5/2002 7:49:15 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 3467

Oh, I should have known... and the answer was so obvious!!! GZ

To: kirby49 who wrote (2855)	10/5/2002 9:32:24 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3467

" We do not count on them being two Hispanic males," said Officer Derek Baliles. "Appearances can be interpreted. We do not want to limit anything at all." "It's possible," he added, that the suspects could be Middle Eastern." HOMELAND INSECURITY 2 'Hispanics' sought in D.C.-area hunt Be-on-lookout alert describes shooters' race October 4, 2002 By Paul Sperry ROCKVILLE, Md. – Police in the Washington suburb where five people were gunned down in two days are looking for two "Hispanic" men in the fatal shootings, according to a police bulletin that federal authorities shared with WorldNetDaily. Montgomery County Police in press conferences have described only the gender, not the race, of the two suspects – one a driver and the other the shooter. The be-on-the-lookout, or BOLO, alert that local police sent out earlier today to all law enforcement agencies also described in detail the "white box truck" used by the snipers. The six-wheeled vehicle resembles a commercial delivery truck, police say. The cab is smaller than, and separate from, the large box-shaped cargo area, which is completely enclosed. The rear passenger side of the bumper has been damaged. And there is block-lettering on the side and rear of the truck. A Montgomery County Police spokesman confirmed that the BOLO describes the suspects in the sniper slayings as "Hispanic." But he cautioned that they could be another non-white race. "We do not count on them being two Hispanic males," said Officer Derek Baliles. "Appearances can be interpreted. We do not want to limit anything at all." "It's possible," he added, that the suspects could be Middle Eastern. He also cautioned that their eyewitness account of the suspects is not solid. Baliles says the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is examining bullet fragments in two other shootings to see if they are connected to the other five, which occurred Wednesday and Thursday. A 72-year-old man Thursday night was shot to death on a Washington street corner. And a Virginia woman this afternoon was shot in the back at a crafts store. Her condition was not immediately known. ATF ballistics experts have determined that a high-velocity rifle firing a .223-caliber bullet was used in at least three of the shootings. The bullet is used in hunting rifles and M-16s and makes a large wound as it enters the body. The police spokesman says FBI profilers will put together a "word picture" Saturday morning to try to make sense of the unusual crime and come up with a possible motive. Authorities are not ruling out terrorism. Baliles says the Secret Service has assigned at least one agent to the case. The Office of Homeland Security and CIA are not involved, he says. The shooters took very select shots of random strangers, and appear to be trained in marksmanship. All six victims who died were killed with a single shot, some apparently shot in the head, although Baliles would not confirm that. worldnetdaily.com

To: kirby49 who wrote (2855)	10/6/2002 11:15:25 AM
From: lorne	Respond to of 3467

Arafat Signs Law on Jerusalem as Future Capital October 05, 2002 06:14 PM ET RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - President Yasser Arafat signed a law on Saturday formally declaring Jerusalem to be the capital of a future independent Palestinian state, legislative speaker Ahmed Korei said. "President Arafat signed the 'Jerusalem The Capital' law stipulating that Jerusalem is the capital of a future independent state and the center of the legislative, judicial and executive authorities," Korei, speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), said. Korei said Arafat decided to sign the law, which had been presented to him by the PLC two years ago, in response to the new U.S. legislation which President Bush signed this week requiring the government to stipulate on documents that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Arafat has often spoken of the Palestinians' determination to make Arab East Jerusalem the capital of a future independent state. The PLC was due to discuss the new U.S. law in a special session on Sunday. Israel captured Arab East Jerusalem in the 1967 war and annexed it in a move not recognized internationally. It regards the entire city as its indivisible capital. The status of Jerusalem was to be negotiated. It was not immediately clear what difference, if any, the signing of the law would have on Palestinian Authority transactions or documents. Arafat called the law Bush signed a "catastrophe," and Palestinians and Arabs saw it as a biased move backing Israel's claims to the city. Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians deadlocked before a Palestinian uprising against Israel occupation erupted in September 2000. reuters.com