At 05:11 PM 07/23/2001 -0700, Mr. Falun Gong wrote:

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Ok, the Subject line is a bit of a stretch, as there's no anon

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but it is interesting nonetheless.

Israel to look into Arafat murder ad By SAUD ABU RAMADAN

GAZA, July 23 (UPI) -- Israel's attorney general on Monday said he would consider opening a criminal investigation into an advertisement

At 06:39 PM 7/25/01 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: payment, that

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urged anyone who had the opportunity to murder Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the Haaretz newspaper reported.

I saw a wire-service article the other day that said that Ariel Sharon's government had put out or endorsed a list of radical fanatic extremist Palestinian group leaders who were targets for assassination in revenge for the recent bombings in Israel. Perhaps the article got mangled in translation or I misread it because the train was noisy, but it sure looked that way. It didn't mention Arafat

You're confusing two reports. FG wrote about *private citizens* calling for a whack via newspaper ad, which pisses off Israel the Govt as much as the Arizonans sniping immigrants on their own. Or taking out an ad calling for the whacking of Vincente Fox, fer instance. Recently, both Israel and the Palestinians gave lists of people they want to whack/imprison to the CIA (who is playing fnord nanny). These latter are official "gummint" actions. That's what you read about most recently. ....... PS: Lets hope "Mr. Falun Gong" <balun_bong@cnnic.cn> amuses the folks at cnnic.cn....