Assasination Politics in the Middle East

[Subcommander Bob]

At 06:39 PM 7/25/01 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
>At 05:11 PM 07/23/2001 -0700, Mr. Falun Gong wrote:
>
>>Ok, the Subject line is a bit of a stretch, as there's no anon
payment,
>>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
that
>>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 at cnnic.cn>  amuses the folks
at cnnic.cn....