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Politics : Attack Iraq? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (7902)	9/2/2003 11:10:57 AM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

and why are you defending that animal then?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (7902)	9/2/2003 1:15:24 PM
From: Chas.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

this article explains it better than I can but you can be assured Arafat is pulling all the strings....nothing has changed. Palestinian Shakeup: Jibril’s Star Rises as Abbas Fades DEBKAfile Special Analysis August 31, 2003, 7:36 PM (GMT+02:00) Jibril Rajoub - rising Palestinian heavyweight pitted against Mahmoud Abbas Washington’s stern warning to Yasser Arafat to beware of toppling Mahmoud Abbas’ government at the Palestinian legislative council worked surprisingly well. The council session - called by Abbas himself to report on his first 100 days in office - was put back five days from Monday, September 1, to Thursday. The scheduled confidence vote was then cancelled in the nick of time to save Abbas. Arafat had worked the phone and managed to raise a majority for voting him down. The formal US Note delivered Thursday, August 28, by the American consul-general in Jerusalem to the Palestinian Authority, the first since the body was established in 1994, stressed that if Abbas is ousted, the United State will withdraw its support for the road map and a Palestinian state, a process already stalled by the steady escalation in Palestinian violence over the past few weeks. Arafat’s subversion campaign against Abbas aka Abu Mazen and his internal security minister Mohamed Dahlan, is clearly too far advanced to reverse. His denial of the forces needed to strike down terrorist structures has tied the two hand and foot. Now Arafat has placed a massive roadblock in their path in the burly form of Jibril Rajoub, who has been equipped with powers that duplicate Dahlan’s, namely National Security Adviser to the head of the Palestinian Authority (Arafat). The man whom Arafat sacked as chief of West Bank preventive security in April 2002 is thus restored to favor. In order to undercut the Abbas administration, Rajoub has been granted a free hand to pick his deputies and handed a supply of ready cash. This means he can reactivate his old following, which numbered up to 20,000 men when Rajoub was at the peak of his power, and build up his support on the West Bank. He will also represent Arafat as top man on the new National Palestinian Security Council on which all the Palestinian security and intelligence chiefs will be given seats.