[Timesink]

Note to all: This is only the main story. All the other links under the "Special Report" banner in the first post should also be read, IMHO. Learn how it all began.

[July 4th]

This just floored me - it's from the sidebar "The Mastermind":

Though he didn't know what the money was being spent for, longtime Fatah official Mahmoud Abbas, a.k.a. Abu Mazen, was responsible for the financing of the Munich attack. Abu Mazen could not be reached for comment regarding Abu Daoud's allegation. After Oslo in 1993, Abu Mazen went to the White House Rose Garden for a photo op with Arafat, President Bill Clinton and Israel's Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres.

"Do you think that ... would have been possible if the Israelis had known that Abu Mazen was the financier of our operation?" Abu Daoud writes. "I doubt it." Today the Bush Administration seeks a Palestinian negotiating partner "uncompromised by terror," yet last year Abu Mazen met in Washington with Secretary of State Colin Powell.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Excellent read, thanks for posting.

Quite telling, considering how the Europeans are begging us to ignore Iraq, and not to rock the boat.