In all of this talk about Arafat, nobody is bringing up the fact that Arafat ordered the machine-gun murders of two U.S. diplomats on March 2, 1973. Yasser Arafat ordered the cold-blooded, machine-gun murders of U.S. Ambassador Cleo Noel and Charges d'affaires George Curtis in Khartoum, Sudan.
Oh, but Powell says Arafat is not considered a terrrorist.