U.S. stopped Israeli raid to seize Arafat

[arcos]

U.S. stopped Israeli raid to seize Arafat

Monday, September 15, 2003
The United States has prevented Israel's military from capturing the headquarters of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat.

U.S. government sources said the Bush administration sent a harsh message to Israel to suspend plans to capture Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah over the weekend. The sources said the had military planned to raid the so-called Muqata'a on late Friday and capture Arafat.

Both Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice telephoned Israeli and PA leaders and warned Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to suspend the military plans, Middle East Newsline reported.

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http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_8.html

Note: I have no idea if World Tribune is a trustworthy source or not. Anyone knows anything about them?
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[cthrumatrix]

1. How can we ever know the truth with the media and this admin.

That's the real issue with America...we have lost our media and the corporations own the media and the agenda.

[xray s]

2. Propaganda

Last week they said Iraq's WMD were in Lebanon. Someone posted at DU they are tied to Israeli intellegence.

[hang a left]

3. total bs. they are trying

to make whistle a hero. it is total and complete bs. don't believe it for a minute.

[Newsjock]

4. World Tribune is a front for the Moonie Times

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?030908ta_talk_mcgrath

... In fact, the World Tribune is not published in the United Kingdom, nor is it, to be precise, a newspaper. It is a Web site produced, more or less as a hobby, in Falls Church, Virginia, and is dedicated to the notion, as its mission statement explains, that “there is a market for news of the world and not just news of the weird.”

... Its editor and publisher, Robert Morton, is an assistant managing editor at the Washington Times and a former “corporate editor” for News World Communications, the Times’ owner and the publishing arm of the Unification Church, led by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. (Morton and his wife, Choon Boon, are themselves followers of the Reverend Moon.)

Among the World Tribune’s other recent half-ignored scoops are that Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for last month’s blackout and that a North Korean defector stressed, during a meeting in July with White House officials, the need for a preëmptive military strike against Kim Jong Il.

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