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Middle East
Israel going after PA Bigs
2002-04-02
  • Israel has set out to hunt down hundreds of suspected militants and terrorists, among them some of Yasser Arafat's political and security lieutenants, a senior Israeli security official said today. The determination to take in ranking officials from Arafat's Palestinian Authority represents a shift in Israeli policy, which until now has granted what amounts to immunity from arrest or assassination to Arafat's inner circle, the official said.

    Among the most pronounced changes in its policy, Israel has also decided to track down and arrest Arafat's top political lieutenant in the West Bank, Marwan Barghouti. Tawfiq Tirawi, Arafat's intelligence chief in the West Bank, and Rashid Abu Shbak, the No. 2 man in the Preventive Security force in the Gaza Strip, are also targeted.
    The way to "isolate" Yasser is to kill or capture all the thugs and controllers around him. Take out the capos and he has to hunt up the individual thugs himself.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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