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...Israelis insisted they did not plan to kill Arafat, they successfully made him think they would. On Saturday, after tanks had leveled much of the compound, Israeli helicopters fired missiles at the remains of Arafat's redoubt. At 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Arafat called one of his Cabinet ministers, Nabil Shaath, in the Jordanian capital of Amman. His voice shaking with fear, Arafat ordered Shaath to call Arab and European leaders. "Tell them the Israelis are going to take over my office," he said. The Israelis said they sought the surrender of several high-ranking Palestinian militants thought...
...guerrillas waging a war against a foreign occupation. "Fatah is free to fight settlers and the army at any place in the West Bank but not inside the Green Line," says a senior Fatah official, referring to the unofficial border separating Israel proper from the Palestinian territories. Says Nabil Shaath, a minister in Arafat's Cabinet: "No one on earth could blame us for attacking the soldiers and the settlers...
...after a Ramadan breaking-of-the-fast dinner with his family in the town of Abu Dis and prayer at the mosque across the street, Osama, 25, found his way to the Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall in downtown Jerusalem and blew himself up. Seconds later, his best friend, Nabil Halabiyeh, did the same. Ten Israelis died, and 188 were wounded. Muhammed notes that his son was jailed by Israel for four years for connections with the militant Hamas movement, but he seems perplexed by Osama's last deed. "If you had told me that afternoon that he was going...
Palestinian security officials tell TIME that hard-liners within Hamas promote the idea of breaking its tradition of targeting Israelis only and starting to hit Americans to show support for bin Laden and solidarity with Afghans. COINCIDENCE? Nabil Al-Marabh, the Boston cabdriver arrested in the post-Sept. 11 antiterror dragnet, is a subscriber of the Globe, a tabloid published from the Florida building exposed to anthrax. SMALL AND FLEET: Small airlines get more secure faster. Mesa Airlines, based in Phoenix, Ariz., was first to put trained guards on flights, while mini-carriers Frontier and JetBlue had reinforced cockpit doors...
...Nabil Al-Marabh, a former Boston cabdriver arrested last week, was a friend of one of the hijackers, U.S. officials say. He also reportedly has ties to a Palestinian convicted in Jordan of planning to bomb millennium celebrations--allegedly an al-Qaeda-backed plot...