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To: elmatador who wrote (66735)	7/30/2005 10:26:59 PM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Yeah I saw first hand in Israel how the police arrest suspects in attempted failed bombings (in my case people were arrested for attempting to blow up the Dome of the Rock or Al Aqsa). The BBC that night made a big fanfare about how suspects had been arrested. Of course no-one ever heard any more about those suspects again. They were a couple of American students who thought they had some constitutional right not to write their names down when the Israeli police asked them to do so :) How did they find them? Went to a lecture given by an extreme right winger and asked everyone to write their name down. BTW everyone should read the article on Arafat in the latest Atlantic Monthly. Sounds about right to me. e.g. Israel collected the fuel tax in the West Bank and then deposited it in Arafat's personal bank account at an Israeli bank in Tel Aviv. It gets more complicated. Arafat comes across fairly mixed - when you compare him to many other dictators he comes out looking pretty good. But Palestine comes out as a failed state disaster zone from the start with he to a large extent to blame.