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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (103877)	7/2/2003 9:34:01 PM
From: NickSE	Respond to of 281500

The 'Palestinian Napoleon' behind Mideast cease-fire By Nicole Gaouette \| Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor csmonitor.com JERUSALEM – When the Israeli and Palestinian Authority prime ministers met Tuesday, they did so with an unprecedented display of bonhomie and some trusted ministers. But one man was missing - a man widely credited with engineering the Palestinian cease-fire that led to the meeting and generated momentum for the US-backed peace plan under discussion. Marwan Barghouti had a good excuse for missing the carefully scripted meeting: Since April 2002, he has languished in Israeli jails Branded a "master terrorist" by Israel, hailed by others as a Palestinian Napoleon (a nod to his diminutive size and perceived ambition), Mr. Barghouti is considered a likely successor to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Barghouti's ability to organize a cease-fire from a prison cell when Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas was failing to do so is testament to his credibility among Palestinians of all factions. "It is quite extraordinary," says Israeli analyst Yossi Alpher. "This [cease-fire] strengthens his position as a potential successor, assuming in the course of some prisoner exchange he is released." [cont'd.....]