Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4276-1010719503-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:28:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 29792 invoked by uid 510); 11 Jan 2002 03:25:27 -0000 Received: from n18.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.68) by all.net with SMTP; 11 Jan 2002 03:25:27 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4276-1010719503-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [216.115.97.163] by n18.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 Jan 2002 03:25:15 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 11 Jan 2002 03:25:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 97575 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2002 03:25:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Jan 2002 03:25:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.98) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Jan 2002 03:25:02 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g0B3PlD31838 for iwar@onelist.com; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:25:47 -0800 Message-Id: <200201110325.g0B3PlD31838@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:25:47 -0800 (PST) Subject: [iwar] [fc:Palestinians,.Weapons.Ship.Linked] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Palestinians, Weapons Ship Linked By BARRY SCHWEID .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Colin Powell on Thursday linked the Palestinian Authority to a ship laden with arms that was seized in the Red Sea by Israeli commandos, but said there was no proof Yasser Arafat was involved. If the ship had reached Palestinian territory and the weapons had been unloaded, Powell said, they ``would have been put to the worst kind of use against Israel and others in the region.'' Powell was pleased Israel intercepted the ship last Thursday. ``Now we have to find all those responsible and accountable for this incident,'' he said at a news conference. A senior Israeli security official on Wednesday said the weapons would have been used most against reinforced buses that generally have not been penetrated in terrorist attacks. But the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the rockets and mortar aboard could have threatened Tel Aviv, other large Israeli cities, and Ben Gurion airport. The official headed an Israeli delegation that briefed the Bush administration. ``The information we are receiving and developing on our own makes it clear that there are linkages to the Palestinian Authority,'' Powell said Thursday. But while the Israeli official said Arafat was directly involved in the episode, hatched last June, Powell said: ``I have not seen any information that yet links it directly to Chairman Arafat.'' State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said there was ``compelling evidence'' that Iran and Hezbollah, a militant Islamic group fighting a guerrilla war against Israel from Lebanon, were involved in the operation. President Bush said he suspected the attempted smuggling of arms to the Palestinians was part of a terror campaign to derail peace efforts. He pledged to send American mediator Anthony Zinni to the region a third time and pressed Arafat to ``work hard to get to the peace table.'' Bush telephoned President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to discuss the lagging peace effort and the ship incident. Bush ``expressed his belief that Yasser Arafat has to take clear concrete measures to investigate,'' Nabil Fahmy, the Egyptian ambassador to Washington, told reporters at a luncheon. Mubarak, in turn, assured Bush he was committed to working with Israel and the Palestinians to try to reopen peace talks, Fahmy said. The ambassador said he did not have information linking the Palestinian Authority to the smuggling - a position taken initially by the State Department. Powell, who has talked to Arafat, said other U.S. diplomats would quiz Palestinian officials. ``This is a very serious matter and they have to give it their immediate attention,'' Powell said, describing the Bush administration as ``deeply disturbed by the arrival of the ship in the region.'' Bush told reporters that while he wanted to make sure there was definitive evidence, ``I, like many, am beginning to suspect those arms were headed ... to promote terror.'' He did not directly blame Arafat or discount the Palestinian leader's denials in the matter, but said, ``I do believe that once the evidence is in, those responsible need to be held to account.'' Bush said the United States would not disengage from the Middle East. ``We will stay involved ... and it starts with making the region more secure,'' he said. That, Bush said, means ``Mr. Arafat must renounce terror, must reject those who would disrupt the peace process through terror and must work hard to get to the peace table.'' ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Sponsored by VeriSign - The Value of Trust Do you need to encrypt all your online transactions? Find the perfect solution in this FREE Guide from VeriSign. http://us.click.yahoo.com/vCuuSA/UdiDAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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