http://www.debka.com/ Assad threw a gala banquet for Palestinian terrorist leaders after London bombing 8 July: Thursday night, July 7, as London was beginning to digest it had been subjected to a quadruple terror attack, Syrian president Hafez Assad entertained a group of hard-line Palestinian terrorist leaders at a banquet in Damascus.
Although he claims to be a close friend of Britain, it did not cross his mind to call off the occasion or remove from its guest list the heads of organizations which Britain as well as the United States have listed as proscribed terrorist groups. Present were the notorious Hamas leaders Khaled Mashal and Abu Marzouk, Jihad Islami chief Ramadan Shalah, Ahmed Jibril,of the PFLP- General Command, Maher al Tarah of the Population Front and their senior operations officers. They had just spurned an appeal from Mahmoud Abbas, who was also there, to join his government and hold their fire for Israel's pull- back from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank. They were willing to promise just the reverse, to escalate their attacks on Israel. Friday morning, July 8, Abbas left Damascus for Beirut for another impossible mission, to persuade the Palestinian militias in Lebanon to disarm. Abu Mazen is under heavy pressure from the Bush administration to prove himself leader of all Palestinians like Yasser Arafat. He will be meeting Lebanese leaders to coordinate steps for the Palestinian militias, especially in the Ain Hilwa camp near Sidon, to surrender their weapons. At least 5,000 Palestinians there are thought to bear arms. But according to DEBKAfile's Palestinian sources, Abbas has as little hope of getting the Lebanese Palestinians to disarm as he has the terrorists in the areas directly governed by the Palestinian Authority. -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
