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...involvement, saying their quarrel is with Israel alone. A senior Palestinian security source points the finger at a new culprit: the Arab Liberation Front (A.L.F.), a small P.L.O. group once backed by Saddam Hussein. This source tells TIME that the A.L.F. may have paid malcontents in Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction to strike at the U.S. to punish the occupiers of Iraq. A.L.F. officials would not comment. But any such link between Iraq and Palestinian violence would be a disturbing new development...
Israeli intelligence officials, however, believe the attack may have been the work of Fatah chiefs in the Gaza town of Rafah, who are feuding with Arafat over his efforts to slow the traffic in weapons smuggled there through tunnels running under the Egyptian border. The attack, they say, was meant to hurt Arafat's global standing, to force him to back off. It certainly put Arafat in a tight spot. The U.S., which sent an FBI team to investigate the bombing, blamed the Palestinian leader for hindering progress against terrorism by blocking the appointment of an Interior Minister to coordinate...
...denied involvement, saying their quarrel is with Israel alone. A senior Palestinian security source points the finger at a new culprit: the Arab Liberation Front, a small P.L.O. group once backed by Saddam Hussein. This source tells Time that the A.L.F. may have paid malcontents in Yasser Arafat?s Fatah faction to strike at the U.S. to punish the occupiers of Iraq. A.l.f. officials would not comment. But any such link between Iraq and Palestinian violence would be a disturbing new development Israeli intelligence officials, however, believe the attack may have been the work of Fatah chiefs in the Gaza...
...Jerusalem over the prospects for pursuing a peace agreement without the aging Arafat will have been settled. The question of Arafat's succession is complicated by the fact that his power derives from the three separate offices he holds: Palestinian Authority president, PLO chairman and leader of the Fatah movement. The PA constitution requires that if the president is incapacitated, his post would be temporarily filled by the Speaker of the Palestinian legislature. However, the Speaker's position is currently vacant, following Ahmed Qureia's resignation from it in order to become prime minister. Following Thursday?s meeting...
...first lieutenant. "He felt that Abu Mazen was going to take his crown," says a senior Arafat aide. Arafat exploited Palestinian anger at Israeli military operations in the occupied territories to cast Abbas as a tool of Israel. For Abbas, the final straw came in early September when Fatah militants confronted him as he entered the offices of the Palestinian Legislative Council and accused him of treason. A shaken Abbas resigned the next day. An aide says he plans to go abroad as soon as a new government is formed. "Arafat's morale is high," says a top Palestinian official...