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Arms from Iraq, Iran found near Arafat HQ
Ha'aretz ^ | 4/18/02 | Amos Harel

Posted on 04/17/2002 4:54:42 PM PDT by tomahawk

Arms from Iraq, Iran found near Arafat HQ

By Amos Harel

The IDF has discovered weapons smuggled from Iraq and Iran in the Muqata complex surrounding the Ramallah office of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, according to Israel defense sources.

The weapons uncovered during Operation Defensive Shield include Soviet-made RPG launchers that were modified by Iraq. The defense sources said the Iraqi weaponry was probably smuggled into the territories in Arafat's helicopters, which have since been damaged and grounded by the IDF.

The army also found Iranian-made RPG anti-tank rockets in the Muqata area. These rockets feature improved capabilities for piercing armor. Following the capture of the Karine A arms shipment from Iran in January, the Palestinians have continued their efforts to smuggle weaponry into the PA, defense sources said, noting that Iran and Iraq remain the primary arms suppliers for the Palestinians.

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein recently announced that Iraq would increase the amount of money it sends to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arafat; axisofevil; plo; terrorism
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To: muawiyah
We must also note that the Palestinian people are the second most educated group in the world

And collectively they are dumb as rocks. Extermination is not too good for the islami-fascist scumbags.

Any culture that trains their children to become living weapons deserves nothing less than extermination.

21 posted on 04/17/2002 8:51:51 PM PDT by Centurion2000
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To: tomahawk
"I ask zee eenternachtional worlduh: Eez zees akseptabwil? Eez zees akseptabwil?"
22 posted on 04/17/2002 9:05:25 PM PDT by kezekiel
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To: muawiyah
What have you been smoking tonight?
23 posted on 04/17/2002 9:20:57 PM PDT by mjaneangels@aolcom
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To: 11B3
Why are there no Arabs in Star Trek?

It is set in the future.

24 posted on 04/17/2002 9:35:32 PM PDT by IncredibleHulk
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To: muawiyah
We must also note that the Palestinian people are the second most educated group in the world (the Israelis are first).

That indeed is very funny! Right out of the Nazi lie book, the more outrageous you make the lie the more believable it is. The Palestinians are some of the most illiterate backyard bozos I have ever met! Most of them have no schooling beyond 6th grade, their kids work in the fields. Why Palestine, in all its schooling is famous for inventing the modern idea of International terrorism, they seem to have zero other exports. But then most schools now in Palestine are very heavy on how to kill Jews and Americans, not the three R's (Religion, Rhetoric and Rpg's).

25 posted on 04/17/2002 9:57:29 PM PDT by American in Israel
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To: muawiyah
our side???? You are right, secularists, but left-wing Socialist/Communist totalitarian 'anti-imperialist' types. No wonder Berkeley loves the palestinian cause and complains about babies in Iraq going without milk formula. Supporting Leftist Regimes.
26 posted on 04/17/2002 10:02:28 PM PDT by WOSG
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To: tomahawk
Bomb Iraq and kill Arafat. Anyone who complains kill them too.
27 posted on 04/17/2002 10:36:36 PM PDT by Mixer
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To: 11B3

29 posted on 04/18/2002 2:25:28 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: pulaskibush
Was this shipment before or after the Colin Powell peace process?

Carefull! Some rag might read that a and get the idea to blame
Colin Powellstein for bringing in those arms inorder to blame Arafat.

31 posted on 04/18/2002 3:46:25 AM PDT by ASA Vet
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To: SevenDaysInMay
...the USA should deliver the ashes of Arafat and Saddam to Mecca.

If I may be so bold to suggest a minor alteration to your wonderful proposal:

the USA should deliver the ashes of Arafat and Saddam to the ashes of Mecca.

FReegards,

32 posted on 04/18/2002 4:47:23 AM PDT by VMI70
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To: muawiyah
They're actually more like us than the rest of the Arab world.

They may be more like you, but they are absolutely nothing like me.

33 posted on 04/18/2002 4:49:52 AM PDT by VMI70
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To: muawiyah
Education is no inoculation against unreason. Weren't the Germans the most educated nation in the world in the 1930's?
34 posted on 04/18/2002 5:00:22 AM PDT by aristeides
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To: tomahawk
I'm amazed at what Israel is learning and discovering in this process. I just don't understand why the facts of such collusion aren't getting broader play in the press. Scratch that....I do understand why.....
35 posted on 04/18/2002 5:48:45 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: muawiyah
Everything you said seemed like complete camel shit to me. The PLO will never be one of our allies.
36 posted on 04/18/2002 6:15:53 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: American in Israel
Haven't heard from you in a while.

There are people just like you describe who work in the fields all over the world - in the US, in Europe, in China.

They are a part of society. On the other hand, when we examine the Palestinians about 2/3 of them live in somebody else's country, hold good jobs there, and are looked on with both envy and hatred by the locals - particularly the guys still working in the fields.

You might well be familiar with the phenomenon.

What I'd like to know is why you have to tinge every response to every post with allusions to the Nazis? This particularly bad habit of yours tends to destroy the credibility of whatever it is you are saying.

Now, back to work!

37 posted on 04/18/2002 6:20:48 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: WOSG
Right on target! The attraction the left in this country has for these people is the secularism, and probably the state sponsored terror and murder.

Although you and I probably feel little philosophical kinship with the Middle Eastern leadership elites in Iran, Iraq, etc., that doesn't mean that we don't have a good deal of countrymen who find them objectionable. Berkeley is such a place, of course.

Now, on to Algeria as an example of a bit more broadly based affinity. Virtually everyone in the US and EU who observed the situation in Algeria cheered on the junta's cancellation of democratic elections. No one wanted the "fundies" to win!

38 posted on 04/18/2002 6:24:15 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: jimkress
Actually, Bin Laden attacked us because he'd like to remove the current ruling family from its position of power in Saudi Arabia.

His motives were entirely secular. On the other hand he clearly enjoyed the Islamist cultural values - e.g. extra wives, totalitarianism (which has been there since the foundations), and an almost exclusively male society (with women relegated to a back room to bear babies and provide sexual release).

That's not much different from the way things are done in Washington sometimes - ref: Bill Clinton!

Now you tell me this country doesn't have something in common with these folks! Look, they probably deserve killing, but that doesn't make them all that different. Then, we see our Supreme Court has a taste for "kiddie porn", babies are murdered every day and tossed into dumpsters or down garbage disposals. This country has it's own strains of fascist enterprise, and the rest of us have to swallow it or face hard jail time.

39 posted on 04/18/2002 6:32:08 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: tomahawk

"Well, Gollee! Suuuprise! Suuuprise!!

40 posted on 04/18/2002 6:35:59 AM PDT by texson66
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