| http://www.dawn.com/2001/08/29/int3.htm
Bush gave 'green light' for Israeli action: press CAIRO, Aug 28: Egypt's government press accused US President George W. Bush on Tuesday of giving Israel the "green light" to assassinate Palestinian leader Abu Ali Mustafa a day earlier in the West Bank. "The assassination of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) leader came just two days after Bush said Israel will not negotiate under so-called 'terrorist' threats," the government paper Al-Akhbar wrote. "It's clear to everyone that Bush gave the green light to the murderer Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, to continue the policy of assassination and killing against the Palestinians," the editorial added. "All this is happening with the blessing of Washington, whose president, with his controversial levels of intelligence, seems to have concluded that the best way of making peace in the Middle East is for the butcher Sharon to make his own peace with the Palestinians after killing them, a peace of the dead," the paper added. The opposition Al-Wafd newspaper ran the story of Mustafa's death under the front-page headline "Israel Opens the Gates of Hell" and saw the killing as a warning to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat that he could be next. "Israel wants to tell Arafat that he too is within its arm's reach, that it could send the same Apache helicopter and the same missiles, but this time with the name Yasser Arafat written on them," a commentary in the paper said. -AFP |
