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

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (2952)	10/11/2002 12:15:54 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 3467

Documents reveal Saddam's hand behind Palestinian uprising Friday, October 11, 2002 TEL AVIV — Palestinian documents captured by Israel detail Iraq's view of the Palestinian Authority as a base of influence that has both exploited and fueled the conflict which erupted two years ago. "The [Palestinian] uprising is a once-in-a-lifetime historic opportunity to build the Ba'ath organization and expand its organizational base," raqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan said in a handwritten letter. The documents, as well as testimony from at least one detained Iraqi agent, reveal that Saddam Hussein's regime poured tens of millions of dollars into the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to create an insurgency base. They assert that the effort was supervised by IRamadan and involved Saddam himself. Military sources said the documents were captured during the Israeli invasion of West Bank cities in April. The sources said tens of thousands of documents were taken away and have since been translated and analyzed, Middle East Newsline reported. The Saddam regime is said to have concluded that Iraq could exploit the Israel-Palestinian war to build a base in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The effort would focus on expanding the presence of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party with the approval of PA Chairman Yasser Arafat. The documents reveal that Iraq sought to win influence among Palestinians by financing the families of insurgents. The effort was directed in the West Bank by Rakad Salam, secretary of the Baghdad-based Arab Liberation Front. Salam has been detained and questioned. Arafat signed some of the documents forwarded by Iraq that discussed compensation to the families of Palestinians killed or wounded in attacks on Israel. Iraq has provided $25,000 to the families of suicide bombers and $10,000 for those killed in other operations against Israel. The documents detail Arafat's support of Iraqi agents in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. These include Arafat's handwritten instructions to the PA Finance Ministry to approve funding of $100 to 50 members of the Iraqi-sponsored Palestinian Liberation Front. Arafat also provided offices for the organization. Other documents told of Palestinians who sought Iraqi financing. They included Sari Nusseibeh, president of Al Quds University and regarded as leading Palestinian moderate. worldtribune.com

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (2952)	10/12/2002 10:10:02 AM
From: lorne	Respond to of 3467

Israelis bar Palestinians from praying at Al-Aqsa By Nazir Majally, Arab News Staff OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, 12 October — Israeli police yesterday blocked Palestinians’ access to Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for Friday prayers and used force to drive back worshipers. About 200 angry young Palestinians tried to push their way through a barricade at the walled Lion’s Gate of the Old City to go to Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for prayers but were driven back by police. Israeli police spokesman Gil Kleiman said there were no arrests or injuries and added that authorities had temporarily barred Palestinians under the age of 40 from the mosque “in light of intelligence warnings of civil disturbances planned for Friday’s prayers”. Some worshipers said police restrictions were exacerbating tensions. “Soon they will raise the minimum age to 50, then who knows?” said a Palestinian in his early 20s near Lion’s Gate. In Nablus, Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian woman inside her home yesterday, Palestinian medical sources and her family said. Shaden Abu Hisli, 50, was inside her home when soldiers in an army jeep opened fire and hit her with a bullet in the head, the sources said. In another development, Israeli tanks entered Palestinian territory in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday, where the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) claimed it wounded a Jewish settler. The tanks fired five shells and opened up with heavy machine guns as they moved a few meter into the Beit Hanoun area, Palestinian security sources said. Some houses were damaged but no casualties reported. In Gaza, thousands of activists from Yasser Arafat’s Fatah faction marched yesterday in a show of strength against the Hamas over the killing of a Palestinian police chief by a Hamas member. “We call on the parties that claim to have no connection to the assassination of Col. Rajeh Abu Lehya to end their policy of chaos and anarchy,” a Fatah statement distributed at the rally said in clear reference to Hamas. In Jerusalem, guards outside the French Embassy in Tel Aviv foiled an attempted bombing yesterday, separating the would-be bomber from his explosive belt before he could detonate it, public radio said. arabnews.com