[TheOtherOne]

What will it take before the PLO is seen for the terrorist organization it is, and be totally and completely anihilated?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Un X'n Believable...

[r9etb]

Asked if Arafat was in charge of the Al Aqsa Brigades, Abu Mujahed said: "The Al Aqsa Brigades is a popular movement established by the people, and gets its power from the people. The people want to resist."

Which is a long way of saying, "Yes, Arafat is in charge of Al Aqsa."

[Catspaw]

What will it take before the PLO is seen for the terrorist organization it is, and be totally and completely anihilated?

From your lips to Colin Powell's ear.....

[RoughDobermann]

Unbelievable, but then again, not surprising.

[DoughtyOne]

I'm sure Kofi was still celebrating this man's relase last week. I'm sure he and the EU are going to appologize to Israel now.

[Roger_W_Isom]

GEE!!!! Why ain't I surprised ANYMORE????? Start blowin' up the Jails in PA Controlleds Territory JEWS!!!!! Thats about the ONLY thing I can advise right now

[Roger_W_Isom]

GEE!!!! Why ain't I surprised ANYMORE????? Start blowin' up the Jails in PA Controlleds Territory JEWS!!!!! Thats about the ONLY thing I can advise right now

[Eva]

I think that we need to change the terminology. The terrorists are murderers. The term terrorist has lost its meaning. The statement, "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter," is beginning to be accepted as truth. Bush just called the terrorist who was involved in the Pakistani church bombing a murder. It is a better word, lets use it.

Terroist implies a just motive. There is no just motive for murder, other than self-defence.

[Sabramerican]

Hashaika, a Palestinian policeman who was fired after his arrest, was picked up in the West Bank town of Tulkarem, and had an explosives belt, the Al Aqsa member said.

Did he have to get a new belt, or did they just give him back the one they inventoried?

[montag813]

I'd love to know what those people on here who say "Arafat has no control" will say about this. Out of Yasser's jail and into a bombing. But HE IS POWERLESS!!!

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Palestinians,YOU ARE GUILTY AS CHARGED!

[Madame Dufarge]

Although the Al Aqsa Brigades is tied to Arafat's Fatah movement, group members claim they carry out attacks on their own

Arafat did not give any orders (to halt attacks), there is no cease-fire declaration yet," Abu Mujahed said.

Although they carry out attacks on their own, they won't stop them because Arafat didn't tell them to.

[mrustow]

See also:

The War Process

[xm177e2]

The Palestinian suicide bomber who carried out Thursday's deadly blast in Jerusalem had been jailed for attempting to carry out an earlier attack. But the Palestinians released him last week

The terrorist was from the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades,

THAT'S ARAFAT'S ORGANIZATION

Why would ANYONE be surprised if Arafat lets his own prisoners out to serve as his own suicide bombers

[lilylangtree]

Just goes to show once more that AraRAT and his terrorists are nothing more than murderers operating under the disguise of freedom for the palestinians. What does it take for the world to understand this?

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

The simple fact is that Palestinians will not make peace with Israel. The Clinton administration made Israel give too much and now the terrorists want it all.

The simple fact is that Israel and the Israelis have no safe harbor and must defend themselves.

The simple fact is that some arab states are oil-rich and have lots of room and the need for workers. The Palestinian refugees need a home. In Jordan. In Arabia. In Syria. In Lebanon.

The simple fact is that there will be no peace until Israel elects it's own George W. Bush and he will find the terrorists and bring them to justice.......whatever it costs.

The simple fact is that it's the arab states that are soft and lazy and Israel needs to act decisively now. Actually, after the 1973 war, all non Jews should have been deported and assimilated in the neighboring arab states and the region and the world would be much more peaceful now!!!!

[anapikoros]

From DEBKA

Just five days ago, Arafat told the Americans and Israelis that his security forces had arrested a potential suicide bomber, Mohammed Hashaika, in the village of Taluza near the West Bank town of Nablus. Arafat, out to prove to the Americans he was serious about fighting terror, asked them to press Israel for permission to transfer the terrorist from Nablus to Ramallah so that his security forces could keep a closer eye on him.

Israel assented – but the young Palestinian didn’t spend a single hour in Ramallah prison. Instead, he was taken straight to the headquarters of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades – a force belonging to Arafat’s Fatah faction – where officers loyal to Colonel Tawfik Tirawi, chief of the Preventive Security agency and the Palestinian intelligence officer closest to Arafat, handed him an explosives belt. After showing Hashaika how to use it, they sent him on his way to downtown Jerusalem to carry out the attack.

The bombing marked the first time in his 40 years of waging terrorism that Arafat has been caught red-handed. He personally arranged for the transfer of the suicide terrorist to Ramallah – and he knew exactly what for