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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 recruiting, and
seeking new targets.
"There are a lot of these guys out there, and they will
pick themselves off the floor and strike
again," a senior intelligence official said on Tuesday.
The official confirmed that reorganisation of al-Qaeda's
top leadership was under way,
co-ordinated by Abu Zubaydah, a bin Laden deputy known to
have escaped from
Afghanistan and described by the official as a "very
serious player" with an extensive
knowledge of al-Qaeda's global network.
European countries and the US remain on high alert about
the possibility of new attacks.
Security officials are particularly concerned about
al-Qaeda "sleepers" who have been in place
since before September 11, and who may now be planning
actions drawing upon logistical
support in the UK and mainland Europe.
In the UK, anti-terrorist police are now operating on the
assumption that there is a hard core
of up to 100 supporters of bin Laden in the UK, any one
of whom could be turned to
terrorism in the months ahead.
Frank Spicka, head of counter-terrorism at Interpol, and
a former secret service bodyguard to
US presidents, said: "There is growing evidence that many
individuals were evacuated from
Afghanistan before the military offensive. It's safe to
assume that many of them have
entrenched themselves elsewhere in the world."
Even the most conservative estimate circulating within
European security circles is that there
could be up to 4,000 terrorists at large. "No one is
feeling comfortable that we're on top of it,"
one French intelligence officer said.
Referring to prisoners held in Afghanistan and at the US
base in Guantanamo Bay, one
security analyst said: "It's debatable just how much the
US-led offensive has contributed to
our detailed knowledge of alQaeda as it is today."
Throughout western Europe, concerns are growing that
September 11 acted as an inspiration
to new, young recruits. "There is now a network being
reconstructed in Europe . . . more
secretive, more radicalised and with a greater capacity
for violence," said Guillaume Dasquie,a
French anti-terrorist expert and editor of Intelligence
Online.
IRAQ SAYS IT IS WORLD'S TOP TERROR
VICTIM
UNITED NATIONS, February 19, 2002 (Xinhua) -- Iraq told the U.N. Security
Council Tuesday that it was the world's "foremost victim of terrorism" as a
target of terrorist acts openly financed by the United States.
In a letter to the council's counter-terrorism committee, set up after
September 11 attacks on the United States, Baghdad accused Washington of
openly spending tens of millions of dollars "on troops of mercenaries to
carry out terrorist operations against Iraq." "Iraq is the foremost victim of
terrorism," the letter said. The U.S.-sponsored actions constituted "state
terrorism" as they were funded under the "Iraq Liberation Act," approved by
the U.S. Congress several years ago, it argued.
U.S. President George W. Bush last month accused Baghdad, along with Iran and
North Korea, of making up an "axis of evil" bent on backing international
terrorism and developing weapons of mass destruction.
Bush has been conducting a review of U.S. policy on Iraq, and has vowed to
act against it if Baghdad threatened the United States, although
administration officials have said there were no current plans to launch a
military attack.
Under the Iraq Liberation Act, the Bush administration has agreed to provide
about 800,000 U.S. dollars a month in February, March and April to the
opposition Iraqi National Council (INC), which hopes to overthrow Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein, reports said.
Ahmed Chalabi, a member of the INC leadership, said three weeks ago that the
time had come for U.S. forces to overthrow Saddam as they overthrew the
Taliban in Afghanistan.
The Iraqi letter to the Security Council committee said nations including the
United States had financed, armed and trained " terrorists" who slipped
across its borders to carry out kidnappings and other "terrorist acts."
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