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Yasser Arafat doesn't deal delicately with threats to his power. When former Cabinet Minister Nabil Amr called in September for reform of the Palestinian Authority, Arafat had the chief of his special forces fire a few warning shots at Amr's home. Leaders of Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization got the message. Scheduled to vote on reform a few days after the attack, they swallowed their criticisms instead...
...anything, President Bush's comments may have done Arafat a favor. The Palestinian leader has called for a presidential election in January, and top aide Nabil Shaath told the media Wednesday that Arafat would definitely be a candidate. Bush's attack, which in Palestinian eyes aligns the U.S. intimately with Ariel Sharon, will make it even more difficult for any challenger to Arafat's regime. Arafat won't lose a national election, especially now, and so ousting him will depend on the ability of Arab leaders, working behind the scenes, to get him to stand down...
TORONTO An Ontario official last week admitted that authorities discovered an al-Qaeda sleeper cell, thought to have been based around Toronto, some months ago. Its members have since left Ontario. Nabil al-Marabh, arrested in Chicago after Sept. 11, lived in Toronto, on and off, for six years...
...relations with Israel - have been quick to react, lest the anger turn to domestic unrest. In Egypt, after days of protesters chanting "Where is the Egyptian army?" the government cut off most contacts with Israel. "When it comes to decision making," says Egyptian government spokesman Nabil Osman, "we listen to public opinion." In Jordan, authorities prevented a potentially volatile march on the Israeli embassy in Amman with a massive deployment of security forces. King Abdullah II's government says it is considering options including the expulsion of Israel's ambassador. Queen Rania, herself a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, even...
Until Israel relents, Arafat's meetings are going to be less hands-on. The only comrades left at his side last week were spokesman Nabil Abu Rdeineh and a few bodyguards from his Force 17 security detail. The others vanished as the Israeli army attacked. Not everyone escaped. Five Palestinians were killed, and Israeli soldiers captured another 150, including a number from Israel's list of wanted Palestinian militants, some of whom were trying to hide in the Muqata'a. (The Muqata'a is not unknown to the Israelis; it served as their military headquarters in Ramallah until the army...