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...officials have sought to lay the blame for the bloodshed on foreign terrorists. They point to a call for instigating civil strife that was contained in an intercepted letter allegedly written by Jordanian terrorist chieftain Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. Said Bremer: "We know they did this as part of an effort to promote sectarian violence among Muslims ... because they believe that is the only way to stop Iraq's march toward the democracy terrorists fear." In the aftermath of Tuesday's carnage, Iraqi leaders of all stripes were quick to urge their constituents not to turn on ethnic or religious...
...united front in condemning the attacks and urging Iraqis against responding to sectarian provocations. Despite deep differences, they share a common interest in keeping the transition process on track, and most sought to put the blame for Tuesday's massacre on foreign elements, such as the al-Qaeda-linked Jordanian fugitive Musab al-Zarqawi, dedicated to fomenting a civil war. The message: Don't fall into this bloody trap being laid by those who don't have Iraq's interests at heart...
...protecting them," says an Administration official. Compared with the Baathists, he notes, "there's less of an organization"--or it's less detectable. The Iraqi source close to the insurgency says militant groups employ networks of smugglers to take foreign enlistees over the Syrian, Saudi Arabian and Jordanian borders. Afterward the enlistees are ferried through safe houses until they reach a hub city such as Ramadi or Fallujah...
...back as September 14, 1993, only days after the signing of the Oslo agreement, Halevi said, the Jerusalem Post ran a story saying Yasser Arafat had told a Jordanian television station that he only wanted to negotiate with Israel so that the Palestinians would gain land and thereby cause the weakening of Israel...
...even here, there are student groups that implicitly condone the terror tactics of Palestinian extremists. The Society of Arab Students (SAS), Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ), and the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH), for example, are sponsoring a speech tonight given by Amer Jubran. Jubran, a Jordanian citizen who is currently facing deportation attempts by the FBI, INS and the Department of Homeland Security, appears to express his support and even admiration for suicide bombers and the attacks they carry out. Official literature produced by the New England Committee to Defend Palestine, an organization co-founded...