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SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH DAILY
08 September 2002 / 1 Rajab 1423
Former US diplomat says Arafat obtained freedom of US hostages
By Paul Michaud, Special to Arab News
PARIS, 8 September � A former high-level US diplomat living in Paris, John
Gunther Dean, has contacted French daily Le Monde to reveal that back in
1979 when he was stationed in Beirut, PLO leader Yasser Arafat personally
obtained the liberation of thirteen US hostages who had been held by Iran
since 1978. President Arafat�s personal role in the liberation of the
hostages had according to Dean never before been made public.
Dean had at the time obtained the authorization of then US Secretary of
State Cyrus Vance to enter into contact with the PLO in Beirut and says he
met with local Palestinian representatives at least forty times.
Entering into contact notably with Abu Jihad, a close adviser of Arafat who
would be later assassinated by the Mossad in Tunis, he requested the PLO�s
assistance in liberating some of the US hostages captured on Nov. 4, 1978.
According to his testimony, as recounted in yesterday�s issue of Le Monde,
�they took it upon themselves to go to Teheran (to fetch the US captives),
and came back with thirteen (US) hostages on Thanksgiving Day 1979.�
In spite of their act, and Arafat�s personal intervention, notes Dean with
sadness today, �nobody ever thought of thanking him for what he did.� Nor
ever making public the PLO leader�s role in liberating the US hostages.
The remaining hostages � ostensibly with Palestinian support too � were
liberated a year later, shortly before the arrival in power of Ronald Reagan
on Jan. 20, 1981. His predecessor, Jimmy Carter, always blamed his defeat on
his seeming inability to liberate all of the US hostages who had been
captured by supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini more than two years before.
Gunther, who is retired from the Foreign Service and has chosen to spend his
retirement years in Paris, says today that he finds �shameful� the way in
which Arafat has been treated by the United States, and this because, in his
estimation, �Arafat has always tried to work with the West.�
Asked why he decided to make public these, and other revelations, only
today, almost a quarter-century after they took place, John Gunther Dean
says simply that he is �one of the many Americans� who have become �worried�
about a US foreign policy which has become �unilateral and isolationist.�
He says too that he is also firmly opposed to any American attack on Iraq.
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