Raghead terror money wants to get out of the kitchen til he heat dies down. While Sharon is terror cleansing, he should go ahead and have RTM on out
Arafat meets with security chiefs over US ceasefire proposal: source
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - Yasser Arafat met with the heads of his security apparatus to discuss an apparent US proposal for a ceasefire with Israel, a source in the Palestinian leader's office told AFP.
He said the United States had proposed the ceasefire, but would not provide further details.
The meeting started shortly after 9:00 pm (1800 GMT) at Arafat's battered headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, the source said.
Top Arafat adviser Nabil Abu Rudeina said the meeting was to discuss the deteriorating situation on the ground, particularly in the Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces have launched a wave of airstrikes targetting militants.
"This meeting is aimed at discussing the very bad and dangerous situation after the two summits," he told AFP, referring to two peace summits held in Jordan and Egypt last week under the auspices of US President George W. Bush.
Following the meeting "important decisions would be taken", he added without adding further details and without mentioning any US ceasefire proposal.
Among those attending were Palestinian security chief Mohammed Dahlan, the head of national security in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, General Abdel Razeq al-Majeda, the head of public security in Gaza City, Saeb al-Aajez, and intelligence chief General Amin al-Hindi, he said.
The meeting came shortly after reports Israel was willing to hand over responsibility for security in the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority as soon as Dahlan was ready.
According to a report on army radio, Israel would "facilitate such a move immediately and without preconditions".
It also comes amid heavy US pressure on Israel and the Palestinians to implement the roadmap peace plan, following a week of bloodshed in which more than 60 people have been killed.
In the latest violence, a member of the radical Hamas group was killed and 26 other people were injured, many of them children, when Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at a car in eastern Gaza City late Friday.
The mosque is probably where these sanctamonious idiots have stored the WMDs. Coalition troops kick the doors in.
Protestors gather in front of the Palestine Hotel at Freedom Square in Baghdad, to demonstrate against the American Forces after Army troops allegedly entered the Abu Hanifa Mosque. The protestors also said the troops stole money from the Mosque before they left
Baghdad demo protests US soldiers entering mosque
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Some 1,500 people protested after Muslim weekly prayers in Baghdad against the entry of US soldiers into a Sunni mosque overnight, an AFP correspondent reported.
"Don't violate mosques," said one of the banners raised by the protesters, who were led by the prayer leaders, or imams, of the capital's three major mosques.
One protester said the troops entered Abu Hodeifa bin al-Yaman mosque around midnight Thursday and seized the equivalent of 90 dollars.
"It was a deliberate violation of Iraq's holy places and we are here to protest against this provocation," said Ahmad al-Azawi, who lives in the mosque's neighborhood in southeast Baghdad.
"The Americans entered the mosque under the pretext of searching for weapons, but in reality, they were trying to provoke us," said Zaki al-Rawi.
The US-led coalition had on June 2 accused Iraqi militants of using mosques as arms depots and bases to carry out attacks on American soldiers.
Meanwhile, a Sunni imam who last week urged Muslims to wage jihad, or holy war, to recover their usurped rights and called on US forces to speed up their withdrawal from Iraq refrained on Friday from making any reference to political issues following a coalition ban on incitement to violence.
"Muslims are entitled to raise the banner of jihad to restore usurped rights or repel an evil threatening them," Sheikh Muayyed al-Aazami said in his sermon at the Abu Hanifa mosque in Baghdad last week.
On Friday, Aazami spoke only about the importance of prayer for Muslims and stressed the need to be magnanimous. He declined to answer when asked by AFP why he had moderated his tone, saying he was tired.
The US-led administration this week outlawed incitement to violence and warned that anyone who ignored the ban would be immediately detained.
"Any person making a prohibited pronouncement in a public place, distributing or attempting to distribute any prohibited material in whatever form, will be subject to immediate detention by coalition security forces," a public notice said.
The ban covered "pronouncements and material" that "incite violence against any individual or group, including racial, ethnic or religious groups and women ... civil disorder, rioting or damage to property ... violence against coalition forces" or that "advocates the return to power" of the deposed Baath Party.
