Posted on 04/02/2002 6:10:04 AM PST by tomahawk
Israeli Defense Forces Uncover Document Linking Arafat Directly to Palestinian Multi-Casualty Suicide Campaign against Israel
It Was Found in Ramallah – in Files of His Personal Accounting
Department at Palestinian Authority Government HQ Document Is Dated September 16, 2001, Five Days After Suicide Attacks on New York and Washington
Costs of Bombs, Bullets, Martyrs’ Posters Are Meticulously Itemized for Arafat’s Approval and Books
Read DEBKAfile’s Full Translation of Document Below
Arafat’s Book-Keeping Department Yields Bill Linking Him to Suicides
2 April: This piece of correspondence was discovered by Israeli troops who went through the files in Yasser Arafat’s personal accounting department in Ramallah. It is an itemized bill signed by the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades – Palestine, and dated September 16, 2001, exactly five days after the September 11 suicide attacks in the United States.
The document is a routine request for Arafat to approve the daily outlay for the arming of suicides with explosives and ammo, their memorial ceremonies and funeral posters.
It is part of the body of evidence Israeli troops gleaned at Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah and demonstrates that Arafat supervised every last detail of the Palestinian suicide offensive.
Translation into English:
1. Cost of posters for Martyrs of the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades: Azam Mazhar, Osama Juabra, Shadi Afouri, Yasser Badawi, Ahad Fares (inserted by hand: NIS2,000).
2. Cost of printed notices, invitations and mourners’ tents (inserted by hand: NIS1,250.
3. Cost of attaching personal photos of these martyrs to wooden panels, plus those of Tabeth Tabeth and Mahmoud al Jamil (inserted by hand: NIS1,000).
4. Cost of memorial ceremonies for martyrs. Memorial ceremonies held for Martyr Azam, Martyr Osama (inserted by hand: NIS6,000)
5. Cost of electrical goods and miscellaneous chemical substances (for manufacturing explosives and bombs – the largest item. (One prepared explosive device – NIS700 at least) We need 5-9 devices per week for the squads in the different regions (inserted by hand: NIS x 4 = NIS20,000 per month)
6. Cost of bullets (cost of Kalashnikov ammo is NIS –8 per bullet; M-16 bullets cost NIS2-2.5 each) We need bullets supplied on a daily basis.
7. Note: Available are 3,000 Kalashnikov bullets @ NIS2 each. We need a sum of money at once to buy them (inserted by hand: NIS22,500 for Kalashnikov bullets – NIS60,000 for M-16 bullets)
In conclusion, glory and pride to those who support our brave resistance against the occupation. Revolution until victory.
As soon as I saw the pictures of IDF soldiers going into Arafat's HQ room by room, rather than just putting a tank shell in each room to clear it, I thought there had to be a reason for that risk of harm to the soldiers. They had to be going after something that only soldiers can get.
Here it is. The first fruits of the rifling of Arafat's files. There will be more revelations to come. This document, and the information to follow, is going to be stuffed up the nose of every bureaucrat at the US State Department, every head of state in the EU, with two copies for each French diplomat and leader.
The purpose of this raid, as I surmised when I first saw the photos, was not to kill Arafat physically, but to kill him politically.
This is it. The Palestinian Authority as we know it is dead, roadkill under the treads of tanks.
Israel is going to take care of business until there is no more business to take care of. And, everyone who complains is going to get a copy of this document, suitable for framing.
This document is as critical to World War III as Chamberlain's "peace" treaty with Hilter was in World War II.
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Neither he nor Bush will admit that. The Israelis will agree to bury this evidence in return for something they badly want. Perhaps the aid Bush is holding up, or the purchase of some technology or something.
Perhaps the evidence will surface again once Bush has ok'd a replacement for Arafat. If Bush intended to replace him now, he would simply have leaked the details of Arafat's murder of our ambassador. (Yes, I know it was in the press, but you didn't see any TV coverage of it, did you? Nothing is really news any more unless it is covered by the networks.)
But just last night, Zbigniew Breszinski, Carter's security chief, was on the Lehrer Report, insisting that Sharon was destroying the Olso Process. I kid you not! But maybe Breszinski was kidding. It was, after all, April Fools' Day.
Don't fault Colin. He is probably acting under orders. Don't forget how IsARat plays this game: Talking nice to one party, and talking malevolently to another. Have you not thought that maybe Colin is playing 'Nice Cop' to Rumsfeld's 'Bad Cop'?
It's probably the only play they have right now - up the oil price, try to throw our economy into a sluggish state again, and weaken Bush politically. There's only one other problem. This ain't in a vacuum, and we're still a little touchy after 9/11.
Of course, this does make nice ads for pro-ANWR drilling folks, and that could hurt the Dems pretty bad, IMHO.
The shock about made me choke on my frog legs and escargot breakfast.
And my RINO-hide boots just developed a hole in the sole.
What you are suggesting here is that we just suck down whole whatever the administration is telling us. How is that a conservative viewpoint? I would be more willing to grant the Bushies the benefit of the doubt prior to their efforts to maintain his approval rating at the cost of the constitution. I believe there was an audible political snap that could be heard when they decided to stomach Campaign Finance Reform. It was a tactical decision to protect a poll rating as opposed to doing the right thing.
IMHO, the political posturing now continues with the inability to label Arafat a terrorist. For the U.S. not to deal with him as such undermines the entire Bush Doctrine of those who harbor terrorists are actually terrorists. No good can come of this absurd redefining of Arafat as anything less than a blood-thirsy murderer. The day has come to stand up to this terrorist agressor and not to play tiddliwinks with the truth.
Are you excusing Powell? Remember, this is the same guy who has said that Fidel Castro has done some good things as a Communist Dictator. He has even refered to himself as a "New Deal" kid from the Bronx. And you know that just about everything that happened under FDR was awful for America not in the short run but in the long run. And too your comment about calling Rumsfeld a bad cop- I don't understand your thinking behind that.
Also, Powell has said on many occasions that he could have served in any administration being that he is not really a Republican. No, Lazamataz, Powell is a perfumed Prince just as Col. David Hackworth refers to people like him.
By the way, who is IsArat?
Remember Reagan's 11th Commandment: Republicans should not beat up fellow Republicans? (or words to that effect).
Republicans will find no greater enemy than a fellow Republican....we all too often eat our young under the guise of "principle".
For the State Dept. to coddle Arafat is an affront to every principle of justice. It is despicable, and makes a mockery of the U.S. war against terror.
Yessir ImARat, or IsARat for Short.
Oh, he's a RINO, no question. But Bush is simply playing both sides against the middle here, and what better a person to do the lefty-wishy-washy-touchy-feely-faggy side than someone who actually believes that way?
I share your disgust with Powell, but he is a pawn Bush is pushing.
And too your comment about calling Rumsfeld a bad cop- I don't understand your thinking behind that.
Bad cop as in Tough cop.
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