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Egyptian intelligence warned American officials about a week before Sept. 11 that Osama bin Laden's network was in the advance stages of executing a significant operation against an American target, President Hosni Mubarak said in an interview on Sunday. Mubarak cited the warning as evidence that Egypt has become an increasingly valuable intelligence partner to the United States in the war against terrorism. Regarding a Palestinian state, he proposed: "I think to declare a state just theoretically like this and then to sit and negotiate what would be the border, what about Jerusalem, I think it may work." (New York Times) Egypt recently purchased 24 No-Dong medium-range missiles from North Korea, according to Frank Gaffney, president of the Washington-based Center for Security Policy, testifying before a House oversight panel on terrorism. Their only conceivable purpose is against Israel, he added. (Middle East Newsline) CIA Director George Tenet met with Israeli leaders during his current mission designed to persuade Yasser Arafat to reorganize his security forces. Prime Minister Sharon will meet with President Bush at the White House on Monday to review bilateral issues. (Washington Post/Jerusalem Post) Sheik Abd-al-Rahman al-Sudays, the imam of the Mosque of Mecca, has called on the Islamic world to unite against a worldwide conspiracy of Hindus, Christians, Jews, and secularists threatening Islamic moral values. The comments of this government-appointed imam, on the main television channel, are seen as an indicator of the government's views. (Washington Times) Israelis and Palestinians should consider setting up a "joint shadow government for peace" if official talks continue to remain blocked, said Israeli participants at a Guardian newspaper dialogue held in Weston, England. The two days of talks centered on how the progress in Northern Ireland might inform the stalemated process in the Middle East. Israeli participants included Yossi Beilin, David Grossman, Naomi Chazan, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, and Avraham Burg. (Guardian-UK/New York Times)
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The Palestinian Cabinet countermanded the decision of its own supreme court to release Ahmed Saadat, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), now held under American and British guard in Jericho. The PFLP claimed responsibility for the assassination of Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi in October. (Jerusalem Post) Recently, CNN interviewed Chen Keinan, whose baby daughter and mother were killed by a suicide bomber in Petach Tikva. While the interview was aired in the U.S., CNN's international programming also broadcast an interview with the mother of the Palestinian suicide bomber, and failed to fully convey the Israeli perspective. An Israeli non-profit group has called on Israeli legal authorities to investigate CNN practices. (Maariv/Yediot Ahronot)
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Iranian terrorism is aimed not only against Israel; it is also perpetrated in the Gulf states, in Turkey, in Africa, and in Central Asia. The Iranians now have 10 Shihab-3 1,300-km-range missiles in their arsenal. The thrust of Iran's manufacture of long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruction is to pose a potential threat to Israel and other countries in the region. (Ha'aretz) Marked by calls from leading Islamic figures for a continuation of the armed struggle and rejection of negotiations with Israel, the two-day conference in Tehran brought together Iranian and other Islamic politicians, as well as leaders of Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command, and Lebanon's Hizbollah. (Financial Times) Close aides to Arafat doubt that the Palestinian leader actually wants the terror attacks to stop, since the Israeli retaliations that inevitably follow deflect attention from his pledges to reform his corrupt and dictatorial government. "This man doesn't want to change," says an Arafat aide. (Time) Following Israel's Operation Defensive Shield, the current wave of suicide attacks doesn't have the same momentum or the same dimensions. This terrorism is being perpetrated by the remnants of the damaged infrastructures, employing youngsters with limited experience. (Jerusalem Report) For the last two weeks, perhaps as a lead-up to the World Cup soccer tournament, Palestinian television has featured afternoon movies that include Israeli soldiers (played by Egyptian and Palestinian actors) shooting ten-year-old Palestinian children playing soccer. (Media Line) As Gaza's premiere human rights lawyer, Raji Sourani has seen his countrymen arrested arbitrarily by the Palestinian Authority, beaten in captivity, held for months without trial, and denied the right to a basic defense in court. Arafat's State Security Courts have tried hundreds of Palestinians, with not a single acquittal. Of those convicted, only about 50 have ties to Hamas. Since the renewed fighting, the Security Courts have tried dozens of people as collaborators. (New Republic)
Israel Can't Do Business With Terrorists - Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert
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