Posted on 09/12/2001 9:47:42 AM PDT by beowolf
Arafat Was Connected With First WTC Bombing
Israeli intelligence had evidence that Yasser Arafat was involved in the planning of the first World Trade Center bombing in New York in February, 1993. Moshe Peled, Israel's Deputy Education Minister in the Netanyahu government, declared in early 1997 that he has information connecting Arafat to the Sudanese terror network responsible for carrying out the WTC bombing. CIA representatives met in Israel with Peled to discuss his information.
Similarly, E-Kihan, the official Iranian government newspaper, accused Arafat of responsibility for the first WTC bombing.
The Jerusalem Post reported in March 1997 that Yonah Alexander, a Pentagon consultant on terrorism, said, "Arafat continues to maintain a training base in Sudan where the Fatah people work closely with the regime and with Iran. If there hadn't been an agreement with Israel, then Fatah would definitely have been on the U.S. list of terror organizations."
The FBI later arrested two Sudanese diplomats in connection with planning the attack, in which six people were killed.
Arafat pushed off his meeting with Syrian President Assad, which was scheduled for today, by a few days.
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