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NEWSFLASH: ISRAELI SHIPS, PLANES, HELICOPTERS ATTACK ARAFAT'S GAZA OFFICE
Gaza City (dpa) - In a predawn raid Wednesday, Israeli army F-16 warplanes,
Apache helicopters and naval boats attacked Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat's beachside Gaza City headquarters, killing at least five Palestinians
and wounding 10, Palestinian witnesses said. Palestinian security sources
said that at least five Palestinian officers of the Elite Force 17 guard for
Arafat's headquarters were killed when a special Israeli commando unit tried
to raid the offices. The witnesses said that Israeli naval boats fired
several shells at the building, which also sustained heavy gunfire from
Israeli helicopters. The Palestinian Force 17 arrived at the scene and fired
back at the Israeli naval boats, which tried to land Israeli troops to enter
Arafat's ``Al Muntada'' headquarters. Ambulances arrived at the scene and
transported five Palestinians who were killed and at least 10 Force 17
members who were wounded during the attack. While the Israeli army commando
unit was trying to raid Arafat's headquarters, F-16 warplanes rocketed the
area. A big explosion was heard in the western neighbourhoods of Gaza City.
Several explosions and the buzz of bullets were heard in the western
neighbourhood of Remal in Gaza City, said the witnesses.
MORE TERROR AND MORE WAR AGAINST TERROR AHEAD
There is now a network being reconstructed
in Europe . . . more secretive, more radicalised
and with a greater capacity for violence...
MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 2/20/2002: It's
getting even more difficult to know just what to believe these days.
Everything that comes from Washington, be it from government or from the huge
government-connected sector of think-tanks and research institutes, is more
and more suspect...and rightly so.
Events of recent months have no doubt spawned much more disgust and hatred of
the US and Israel in various quarters. But the betting from officialdom is
that the extensive American-led worldwide crackdown on all serious opposition
groups of whatever kind will have its impact. And the betting from
officialdom is as well that few if any groups or individuals will come along
that will ever have the resources and training as Al-Qaeda; and that they
will be able to keep everyone else under control.
On the other hand, while recent events may have fractured or even destroyed
groups whose agenda was to oppose today's forms of American imperialism in
the Middle East; more isolated, small, and deeply underground groups may have
been seeded far and wide at the same time. Add to this the terribly brutal
military occupations that have actually been stepped up in Palestine, in
Chechnya, and in Kashmir -- plus what can now be expected in Iraq and then in
other countries that may be added to the axis of evil countries -- and
there will clearly be serious ramifications and counterreactions in the years
ahead.
And that's just the point actually. The American and Israeli militarists
have succeeded at the moment in getting the world that they have wanted all
along. Indeed it is their past actions, not to mention attitudes, that are
primarily responsible for bringing such a world about. It's a world of
secret agents and high-tech militarism on a daily, escalating scale. It's a
world of freedom against terrorism, us against them, good versus evil;
a world where security concerns dominant even if far far more of their own
people are suffering and dying because of cureable diseases, faulty medical
care, and car accidents.
The world they have forced upon all is neither the real world nor did it have
to be, not by any stretch of course. But it is the world they in their
arrogance, simple-mindedness, and brutish ways think they understand. And
at the moment -- because of the sole superpower status of the US and it's
tremendous techological and military superiority -- it's a world they will
further attempt to control and manipulate and dominate until more days of
reckoning results in the months nad years ahead.
OFFICIALS SAY AL-QAEDA NETWORK STILL A THREAT
By Mark Huband and Jimmy
Burns
[Financial Times, London, 19 February 19 2002]
Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network is preparing
for a new phase of activity,
western intelligence officers have told the Financial
Times.
Despite the destruction of its presence in Afghanistan,
waves of arrests and the targeting
of terrorist funds around the world since the September 11
attacks, security services fear
that al-Qaeda is still successfully
