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Saddam Hussein's intelligence service collected information on dozens of sites in Israel, including airports, other transportation centers, as well as scientific and religious centers that were thought to be potential targets for attacks. Among the sources providing intelligence to Saddam's regime was Force 17, the security force of Yasser Arafat, which planned and carried out from its Ramallah headquarters attacks against Israeli targets.

An ailing Yasser Arafat performed Muslim prayers before dawn Thursday and ate a light breakfast, but his condition remained serious and a team of doctors flying in from Arab countries will decide whether he needs to be transferred from his compound to a hospital, aides said. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, in a telephone conversation with his Palestinian counterpart, agreed to allow Arafat to be flown abroad for treatment but it remains unclear if that will happen. As CBS News Reporter Tali Aronsky reports, Arafat's latest health problems come at a time of unprecedented political and security instability in the...

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WHAT ARE THE TRUE FACTS CONCERNING THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT? FACT! THERE ARE 22 SOVEREIGN ARAB STATES IN THE MIDDLE EAST, INCLUDING OIL RICH SAUDI ARABIA AND KUWAIT, who steadfastly refuse to absorb the so-called 'palestinian refugees'...preferring to keep them as political pawns in order to blame Israel for their plight! FACT! SINCE ITS RE-BIRTH IN 1948 WITH G-D'S HELP, ISRAEL, ONE SMALL JEWISH STATE SURROUNDED BY HOSTILE ENEMIES, has absorbed millions of Jewish refugees....from the HOLOCAUST, from the former Soviet Union, the Ethiopian black Jewish community, and more than 850,000 Sephardic Jews, many of whom were expelled from their homes...