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...forced him to change course, he believes that it was his atomic bomb program that enabled him to deal with the West from a position of strength. Even today, he concedes nothing in Libya's support for terrorism, bragging about how revolutionaries he aided like Nelson Mandela and Yasser Arafat became welcome visitors to the White House. Libya's regret, he says, is that some of the groups committed the error of killing innocent civilians. Although a Scottish court convicted a Libyan official - and the Libyan government formally accepted responsibility - for the downing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie...
...compromise agreement over Lockerbie. As those negotiations neared their conclusion with a partial lifting of sanctions, Seif al Islam secretly met with three MI6 officers in a hotel room in London?s posh Mayfair district late one Sunday afternoon in March 2003. (An aide to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Mohammed Rashid, arranged the rendezvous...
Even if Hamas does not change, Hamas’ victory has already begun to transform the Fatah Party, a welcome development. Under Yasir Arafat and recently Mahmoud Abbas, the Fatah Party presided over one of the most corrupt and incompetent organizations in the world. Arafat used the Palestinian Authority treasury as his personal cashbox to buy loyalty and to support a maze of security services. It is estimated that Arafat and his corrupt cronies pocketed almost half of the seven billion dollars in foreign aid contributed to the Palestinian Authority. Sadly, only ten percent of the Palestinian state budget ever...
...face of CBS' groundbreaking television news program 60 Minutes; in the spring; in New York City. Over a storied career begun on Chicago radio in the 1940s, the ex-game-show host helped invent the TV interview with a hard-charging approach to subjects from Eleanor Roosevelt to Yasser Arafat. He will become correspondent emeritus, a post he said entitled him to "longer vacations...
...world may be anxious to see how Israel and Hamas deal with each other. But Palestinians are more worried about another showdown: between Hamas and Fatah, the organization founded by Yasser Arafat, whose members do not want to relinquish control of the Palestinian government to the upstarts. Both Palestinian officials and Israeli security experts say that a clash between the two forces is inevitable and could swiftly turn violent. The feud runs deep. Fatah members are secular, while Hamas' leadership is guided by the Koran. Palestinians complain that many of Arafat's old commanders are little better than gangsters...