Arafat Tried to Assassinate Powell

NewsMax ^ | 10/8/202 | NewsMax Staff and Yossef Bodansky

[ex-Texan]

Arafat Tried to Assassinate Powell

In his new book The High Cost of Peace, author Yossef Bodansky reveals this stunner: In April 2002, as the U.S. was trying to negotiate a cease-fire between the Palestinians and the Israelis, Yasser Arafat tried to blow up Secretary of State Colin Powell's entire convoy, including Shimon Peres, while on its way to the peace negotiations.

Here is how Bodansky explained the situation:

"During a meeting with [special negotiator Gen. Anthony] Zinni, Arafat made a special request - a personal favor. A police officer from a very important family in Gaza had just been killed at Arafat's compound. It was imperative to get the body to Gaza for proper burial, Arafat pleaded. Zinni requested Jerusalem to make an exception to the siege. Jerusalem consented on April 7-8. However, the PA was not ready to dispatch the body until the evening of April 11 - at about the same time Powell was due to arrive at Ben Gurion Airport.

Unbeknownst to the Palestinians, Israeli security forces were following the ambulance bearing the officer's body as it left the Ramallah area.

Their suspicions deepened when the ambulance made a "wrong turn" and headed toward Highway 1 - connecting Ben Gurion Airport and Jerusalem - instead of taking the road to Gaza. As the ambulance was about to enter Highway 1, it was ambushed and stopped by an Israeli anti-terrorist unit. A quick search netted a huge bomb installed under the policeman's body and a martyr's bomb-web under the seat next to the driver.

The two supposed Red Crescent medics told their interrogators that their plan was to park the ambulance near a bend in the road where Powell's convoy was bound to slow down. They would open the vehicle's hood as if they had an engine problem. Once the limousine got close to the ambulance, the driver was to blow it up, in the expectation that the convoy would stop and the security personnel would rush to investigate the explosion.

Exploiting the confusion, the other "medic" was to run to the limousine, try to get in, and blow himself up either inside the limousine or pressed against its exterior."

Bodansky further explains that Arafat was obviously involved in the plot, since he was the one who had insisted the body be moved in the first place, but that the Israelis agreed to suppress the incident to save the Bush administration any embarrassment

[ex-Texan]

Arafat deserves to wake up dead !

[Mixer]

The only thing surprising here is the amount of time this took to come out in the open. Arafat should have een killed a long time ago.

[smith288]

Which could explain Powells recent silence... Hmm.

[goldstategop]

Yosef Bodansky has a new book out, The High Cost Of Peace. Its required background reading to better stand today's headlines.

[William McKinley]

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[Grampa Dave]

Actually this did make the news and several talk shows. It was posted on Free Republic after it happened.

Of course the pro Islamakazi NY Slimes and the lesser Slimes and ABCNNBCBS failed to cover it.

[BADROTOFINGER]

Are there any news stories that we can add to this site to help verify this? Maybe a story about the Israelis stopping the truck? Just wondering...JFK

[LandofLincoln]

Why has this guy not been killed when they surround hid compound?

[AppyPappy]

Who would ever believe the Palestinians would blow up innocent people?

[BADROTOFINGER]

Innocent??? Powell is an agent of The Great Satan (with apologies to the FReeper of the same name)!!!...JFK

[null and void]

Direct personal protection of Satan...

[stndngathwrthistry]

Bodansky further explains that Arafat was obviously involved in the plot, since he was the one who had insisted the body be moved in the first place, but that the Israelis agreed to suppress the incident to save the Bush administration any embarrassment

So much for the "war on terrorism."

[Cicero]

This is the first I've heard of it. It just goes to show that even regular visitors to FR just have to blink for a second, and they'll miss something important, because the mainstream news media NEVER prints anything they don't want their readers to see. After all, their readers might start thinking for themselves, and that would be terrible.

The New York Times used to print stuff like this in a little paragraph at the bottom of page 43, so they could say they had run it in case anyone asked. If you went through the whole paper very carefully looking for tiny items, you might see it. Nowadays, they don't even pretend to print inconvenient news. The are shameless.

[NoCalEyes]

AraRAT "The Terriorist"

Another reason why the U.N. is a complete JOKE ! !

[OldFriend]

Just heard Ann Compton of WABC radio refer to NBC as National Biscuit Company........sounds about right!!!

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Clinton met with Arafart more often than any other world leader. Bush refuses to meet with the terrorist. To me that makes clinton a terrorist.

[thegreatbeast]

Sorry, but I'm going to require verification before I believe this story. It doesn't make any sense. The US is the only entity that has any real sway with Israel; to pis* us off by trying to murder our SoS would be tantamount to suicide. Arafat has shown us that he is not interested in being a martyr.

[Paleo Conservative]

I might believe this story when it is reported by a more credible news agency than Newsmax.

[Mixer]

Actually this did make the news and several talk shows. It was posted on Free Republic after it happened

OK then I take back my previous statement and replace it with glad to see this posted again for those who missed it the first time around : )