[monkeyshine]

BTTT some good posts here already, FYI & for your flag list.

[dennisw]

THANKS!

[dennisw]

Here's some Spanish Eurocrats meeting with Yassir about a year ago. They came to the West Bank to console their besieged hero.

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Spain's Foreign Minister Josep Pique, right, pauses as in the background an unidentified member of the Spanish delegation kisses Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, following their meeting in Arafat's headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Thursday Jan. 17, 2002. Pique is on a week-long tour of the Middle East in an European diplomatic effort to search for new ways to revive the Mideast peace process. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)