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| Middle East |
| Tewfik rules out "Palestinian Karzai" |
| 2002-09-24 |
| West Bank intelligence chief Tawfiq Tirawi said on Tuesday Israel was after him because he was blocking an Israeli-US plan to replace Yasser Arafat with a Palestinian version of Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai. Not because he kills people. Certainly not... "I and other Palestinians are wanted by Israel because we are an obstacle to attempts to bring in an alternative leadership on the back of Israeli and American tanks, such as happened in Afghanistan," Tirawi told Dubai-based and Saudi-owned MBC television. "The Palestinian people's steadfastness will thwart any attempt to install a Karzai in Palestine because Palestine is not Afghanistan," he said. Not yet, anyway. It'll come. It'll come... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 I wonder if Tawfiq Tirawi and Yasser Babywipes are going to model their fall from power after the Taliban... loot the treasury and head to PakIslamistan. |
| Posted by: PJ 2002-09-24 13:58:06 |
| #1 Lets see if afganistan took (counts on fingers) that means killing Arafat should take (which finger is zero finger again... oh got it) |
| Posted by: flash91 2002-09-24 10:10:34 |