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| "Not a positive meeting" with Yasser |
| 2002-04-22 |
| Israeli troops kept Yasser Arafat's headquarters and Bethlehem's Nativity Church under tight siege Monday and a U.S. envoy seemed to make little progress in talks on the crisis with the Palestinian leader. "I would not say that it was a positive meeting," Mohammed Rashid, an adviser to Arafat, told Reuters after the 90-minute session with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Burns at the Palestinian president's encircled compound in Ramallah. Yasser didn't pull a rod on him, did he? Rashid complained that Israeli troops had prevented senior Palestinians from attending. Wouldn't let 'em out of jail, huh? That happens sometimes. Another Arafat aide, Nabil Abu Rdainah, said the Palestinian leader had demanded an unconditional Israeli pullout from all the areas occupied by troops in a West Bank offensive launched on March 29 after suicide bombings killed scores of Israelis. Yeah. An' he wants unconditional surrender, too. An' he wants Sharon shot, then drawn and quartered. An' he wants an hour - a whole hour, mind you - alone with Britney Spears at the No-Tell Motel. An' then he wants a pony. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |