[aculeus]

He was an Egyptian bourgeois turned into a devoted Marxist by KGB foreign intelligence. The KGB had trained him at its Balashikha special-ops school east of Moscow and in the mid-1960s decided to groom him as the future PLO leader. First, the KGB destroyed the official records of Arafat's birth in Cairo, replacing them with fictitious documents saying that he had been born in Jerusalem and was therefore a Palestinian by birth.

Another Said?

[general_re]

Another Said?

If it will make peace more likely, I'm willing to help get Yasser off the front lines by kicking a few bucks towards an endowment just for him, at the Ivy League university of his choice. That's what's keeping Cynthia McKinney out of trouble at the moment, after all...