What then? One has to be brain-dead to believe that Israel's retreat to what even Israel's dovish one-time Labor Foreign Minister Abba Eban called the "Auschwitz borders" is going to bring peace. Ariel Sharon was correct when he likened the pressures on Israel to those its European allies exerted on Czechoslovakia, even though, with what has become typical faintness of heart, he then denied he said it or meant what he said. If the new Munich comes to pass, the results for the maimed state will be no different -- the territorial rump will be dismembered shortly thereafter.

And the results for those who perpetrate the betrayal will be no different. The Allies did not purchase peace in our time. If the U.S. hands Bin Laden such a victory, it can only galvanize the Muslim world into using the panoply of weapons that worked so well against Israel. As columnist/cartoonist Ranan Lurie pointed out in the Los Angeles Times of March 18, nuclear devices and chemical weapons are merely one element in the arsenal. Why not unleash low-tech suicide bombers on U.S. public places? If Bin Laden could bring down the little Satan, can victory over the Great Satan be far behind?

Rael Jean Isaac is editor of Outpost.

New Evidence Arafat Killed U.S. Diplomats

Joseph Farah

A long-buried Central Intelligence Agency report, found in the National Archives by a historian chronicling President Nixon's career, shows the agency, former Secretary of State William Rogers, and many other officials were aware of Yasser Arafat's involvement in the 1973 murders of two U.S. diplomats by Arab terrorists.

The files were discovered by Russ Braley, author of Bad News: The Foreign Policy of The New York Times and a Nixon researcher who has plumbed the National Archives' "Nixon Project," created when Congress took control of the late president's papers, for bits of information about the administration not released to the general public and press. Braley recently found several boxes of documents related to the 1973 kidnap-murders in Khartoum, Sudan, of U.S. Ambassador Cleo Noel and Charge d'Affaires George Curtis Moore, along with Belgian diplomat Guy Eid, by Arab terrorists. Though the files had been, according to Braley, thoroughly purged of information regarding intercepts of Arafat giving the explicit order for the machine-gun murders of the diplomats, one surviving CIA report, found in NSA box 666 and enclosed in a message from Rogers to some 40 U.S. embassies, shows Arafat's complicity in the terrorist crimes.

The embassies were instructed to convey the information to foreign governments "orally only," due to its sensitivity: "Begin text. The Black September Organization (BSO) is a cover term for Fatah's terrorist operations executed by Fatah's intelligence organization, Jihaz al-Rasd. The collapse of Fatah's guerrilla efforts led Fatah to clandestine terrorism against Israel and countries friendly to it. Fatah's funds, facilities and personnel are used in these operations. There is evidence that the 'BSO' operation in Khartoum was carried out with substantial help from Fatah's Khartoum office and applauded by Fatah radio stations in Cairo and Beirut. In addition, Fatah Deputy Chief Salah Khalaf, chief of the 'BSO,' gets an independent subsidy from the Libyan government.

"For all intents and purposes no significant distinction now can be made between the BSO and Fatah. Four of Fatah's 10-man command, including Khalaf, the planner and director of the Munich and Khartoum operations, are identified as 'BSO' leaders. Fatah leader Yasser Arafat has now been described in recent intelligence reports as having given approval to the Khartoum operation prior to its inception.

"Arafat continues to disavow publicly any connection between Fatah and terrorist operations. Similarly, Fatah maintains its pretense of moderation vis-a-vis the Arab governments, a pose which most of these governments find convenient for their public position toward the Palestinian cause. It seems certain also that some elements within Fatah are opposed to terrorism, and the chaotic state of the whole fedayeen movement assures factionalism, power struggles, and unclear lines of command. Nonetheless, the Fatah leadership including Arafat now seem clearly committed to terrorism. End text."

Greg Sullivan, a State Department spokesman on Middle East affairs, agreed to look at the latest documents, but said his understanding of the 1973 incident was that links to Arafat were not conclusive. "My understanding is that there was never conclusive evidence," he said. "I'm unaware of any proof, so I would not want to speculate on how it would affect policy." Asked if proof was made available to the State Department of Arafat's complicity in the murder of U.S. diplomats in 1973, how Middle East policy might be affected, Sullivan declined again to speculate.

Calls to the White House press office went unreturned.

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