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Well, at the time The BBC was down and I looked on CNN and only came up with the article I cited you. Just post a link, no big deal.

Just go to the link I gave you, no big deal. Here it is again. http://www.newstrove.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?search=Netanyahu

You will find three stories there about Netanyahu's request to Cheney and Rice. One from the International Herald Tribune (a Ha'aretz story), one from the BBC and one from CNN.

In case you still are unable to find it, or any of the others, I have included the first half of the Ha'aretz story below:

Israel to U.S.: Don't wait for calm here before hitting Iraq

Yossi Verter and Aluf Benn Ha'aretz Daily April 12, 2002

Powell arrives amid low expectations

Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu last night told the U.S. administration not to wait until there is calm in the territories before going ahead with its planned attack on Iraq.

. Netanyahu apparently spoke to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon before going to the White House to meet with U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. He also briefed the prime minister at the meeting's end.

. Cheney and Rice had requested the meeting.

. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in Israel last night. Just before his arrival, the U.S. proposed to Israel that a third party - apparently the British - take custody of the wanted men in the Church of the Nativity and in Ramallah's besieged Palestinian Authority compound and hold them in the Palestinian areas.

. Sharon agreed - as long as they are put on trial in Israel.

. British Prime Minister Tony Blair has agreed to send the appropriate men for the job and to oversee the arrest and imprisonment of the suspects.

. In the Prime Minister's Office and the Defense Ministry, officials had low expectations yesterday from Powell's visit, which will consist of a shuttle between Sharon and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. Powell is to meet with the "expanded kitchenette" this morning, then with Sharon, followed by meetings with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer. The meeting with the ministerial plenum, where the right holds sway, is meant to present the American foreign policy chief with Israel's hard-line views.

Here is the direct International Herald Tribune link for the Ha'aretz story:

http://www.iht.com/articles/54534.html

Here is the BBC link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1925000/1925284.stm

In case you still can't get access to the BBC, here are the first few paragraphs from the BBC story:

By Justin Webb

BBC Washington correspondent

The former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has tried to convince the White House that its ties with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat should be broken and an attack on Iraq should be mounted as soon as possible.

Netanyahu reportedly suggested Arafat was working with Iran

Mr Netanyahu saw both President Bush's National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, and the Vice-President Dick Cheney.

Mr Netanyahu requested and was granted the right to take his hardline message to the pair - two of Mr Bush's most senior advisers - and thus to the ear of the President.