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September 12, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1063342615715

Report: IDF Ready to Snatch Arafat Since April 2002

(Jerusalem Post) - Israel Radio reports that an elite IDF unit has been ready for over two years to "remove" Yasser Arafat, should the political echelon give it the order to do so. The unit was to have broken into Arafat's compound, eliminate any resistance it faced, snatch Arafat and whisk him away to a North African country on board a helicopter. According to a senior IDF officer, the plans to remove Arafat are still in place, and that there would be "no problem to quietly enter the Muqata and carry out the plans," adding that the plans made room for armed resistance by Arafat loyalists.

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