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To: unclewest who wrote (36535)	3/26/2004 8:21:41 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 793671

No kidding, 20 years too late.

To: unclewest who wrote (36535)	3/26/2004 8:29:23 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793671

re: US refuses to guarantee Arafat's well- being Palestinian leader asks CIA for US guarantee that he will not suffer the same fate as Yasin, but he was rebuffed. The situation is still ambiguous. Sharon promised Bush sometime back not to harm Arafat. Moreover, if I understand what Sharon is doing, he wouldn't want to kill Arafat now, even if it wouldn't cost him diplomatically, which it would. I think Sharon is trying to position the local, as opposed to Tunisian, leadership of Fatah in a good position to come out on top in the forthcoming Palestinian civil war. He can best do that by directing fire at Hamas and Arafat's 'special' militias - the Tanzim and Al Aqsa Brigades without throwing all of Fatah into conflict, which Arafat's death would do.