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To: Ilaine who wrote (26830)	12/10/1998 1:17:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

More on Israeli Bio-Weapon. Cobalt, Mahnaimi seems legitimate. He is an Israeli himself, and a staff correspondent for The London Times. Just because the crazies pick up his articles and post them on their sites is no reason to assume he shares their views. (I've had some of my own articles posted on sites I never even heard of.) The article you provided the link to was originally published in the London Times, on Dec. 22, 1996. To reassure you further, let me post a review I found of a book published by Little-Brown & Co., and co-authored by Mahnaimi (described as a former "Israeli spymaster") and by Arafat confidant Bassam Abu-Sharif: Best of Enemies: The Memoirs of Bassam Abu-Sharif & Uzi Mahnaimi by Bassam Abu-Sharif and Uzi Mahnaimi No one knows more about modern terrorism -- its impetus, its technology, its secrets, its inevitable tragedy -- than Bassam Abu-Sharif, a former Palestinian guerrilla, and Uzi Mahnaimi, a former Israeli spymaster. These two men, whose personal histories epitomize the struggle over Israel, were supreme practitioners of the vicious tactics characterizing the Arab-Israeli conflict. Now in a riveting double memoir, Abu-Sharif and Mahnaimi reveal life on opposing sides of the world's most bitter feud, and how they ultimately turned a cycle of violence into a search for peace. Driven from Jerusalem by the Israelis as a child, Bassam Abu-Sharif spent most of his life fighting back: dubbed "the face of terror" by Time magazine, he recruited Carlos the Jackal, masterminded a notorious series of airplane hijackings, survived a letter bomb from Mahnaimi's organization (he lost several fingers and an eye), and went on to become Yassir Arafat's confidant and spokesman. Here also is Mahnaimi's story, of being raised in an Israeli military family, of witnessing Israel's explosive victory in the Six-Day War, of the daily machinations of Israeli spymasters -- such as turning a Palestinian butcher into a double agent, or surviving a hair-raising close encounter with Arab spies. Bassam Abu-Sharif and Uzi Mahnaimi finally met in a London restaurant in 1988, many years after they both -- for very different reasons -- turned away from violence. In this strange meeting lies the heart of these memoirs. Their stories, and those of their fathers and grandfathers, encapsulate one hundred years of war between Arab and Jew. Unlike their predecessors, however, Abu-Sharif and Mahnaimi have joined forces in a new and more testing struggle: the fight for peace. Their quiet collaboration has steadily helped move the peace negotiations forward and set the stage for the Arafat-Rabin handshake of 1993. Brimming with the drama of ancient hates and the effort to overcome them, here is an enthralling personal drama, as well as a major historical document. pathfinder.com According to a Pakistani news item I ran across, the first story on the Israeli "ethno-bomb" appeared -- guess where! -- in The Jerusalem Post, supposedly on October 29th. I checked out the web version of the Post, but did not find the story. jbe