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...street protestors by shifting attention to Israelis suffering the horror of suicide bombings. Israeli reports suggest Arafat is being urged to clamp down on terror attacks and instead encourage non-violent protest actions such as a peaceful march on Jerusalem. Palestinian sources claim that even U.S. mediator General Anthony Zinni indicated to Arafat that this would be a more productive course of action. And a network of Palestinian non-governmental organizations independent of Arafat have recently taken to organizing peaceful demonstrations...
...deepening division between hard-liners and Secretary of State Colin Powell. Days after Powell left for Afghanistan in early January, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld teamed up to try to shut down the mission of Powell's Middle East envoy General Anthony Zinni and cut off ties with Yasser Arafat. In a meeting attended by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Powell's deputy, Richard Armitage, the two hawks argued that after the seizure of an arms-laden boat headed from Iran to the Palestinian Authority, all ties to Arafat should be cut. "[Cheney...
...violence in the region to its lowest level in 15 months. Just one Israeli has died since Arafat's Dec. 16 speech. In that time 20 Palestinians have been killed. Israel began to withdraw forces that had occupied parts of the West Bank ahead of American peace negotiator Anthony Zinni's second attempt to bring the two sides together...
...interception of the Karine A during the visit of U.S. envoy General Anthony Zinni couldn't have been more opportune for Sharon. With even the Israeli military reporting a sharp decline in violent incidents since Arafat's speech three weeks ago calling on Palestinians to cease firing, pressure had begun to mount on the Israeli leader to lift his siege of Palestinian areas, freeze settlement activities and move towards renewed negotiations - a scenario anathema to Sharon and his own political base. Now, with the help of some Palestinian arms smugglers and Hamas insurgents, he has managed to nimbly shift...
...down the line. Powell leaned heavily on his deputy and close friend Richard Armitage in dealing with Pakistan. Armitage, in turn, went for advice to Anthony Zinni, the retired Marine four-star general who had come to know Musharraf well when he had the Centcom post before Tommy Franks, general to general. Zinni assured Armitage that Musharraf could survive the upheaval that an alliance with the U.S. would cause. Musharraf, Zinni said, would "stick...