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To: Taro who wrote (260981)	11/19/2005 4:12:37 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 1571697

Re: The death toll rose to 57 after renowned Hollywood film director Mustafa Akkad, a Syrian and US national, died of injuries sustained in one of the hotel blasts, a family friend said. [...] Akkad, 68, was wounded in the neck in the attack that also killed his 33-year-old daughter Rima. He is best known for his 1977 epic "The Message: The Story of Islam," which starred Anthony Quinn and Irene Papas. As a Syrian and US national, Mustafa Akkad could play the "honest broker" between the US administration and the Syrian regime... As any experienced, valuable individual --especially an Arab one-- who might appease the tensions between the US and Arab regimes hostile to Israel, Mr Akkad had to be eliminated. Yet the article says nothing about the fact that two prominent PLO bosses were among the victims (Bashir Nafeh, who until recently was the commander of the Palestinian special forces, and Abed Allun, the liaison between the Palestinian Preventive Security Service (PSS) and foreign intelligence agencies - the CIA, British Intelligence and Israel's Shin Bet security services) --how come? So far, only Israeli media have mentioned it, whereas it's been censored by both the US media-military complex and European media... I guess the reason is that it's much more difficult for Israeli media to keep Israelis in the dark about significant clues: too many Israelis speak Arabic and watch Arab TV channels from Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, etc. But thank God, there's the Internet for the rest of us! Gus