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Date Posted: 23:11:28 04/11/02 Thu
Author: MJ
Author Host/IP: wks-166-152-9.kscable.com / 24.166.152.9
Subject: IA Will this work?
In reply to: Interested Awareness 's message, "Re: IA" on 14:31:35 04/11/02 Thu

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GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT INTELLIGENCE BRIEF
Arab leaders saying
goodbye to Arafat
Quietly discussing with Bush possibility of exile to Egypt, Morocco

Posted: April 11, 2002
5:00 p.m. Eastern

Forget the rhetoric of such leaders as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Jordan's King Abdullah and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. Quietly, they are saying their last goodbyes to Yasser Arafat.

Arab diplomatic sources say Arab countries from moderate Morocco to extreme Syria no longer have use for Arafat. Indeed, Arafat has fomented too much unrest against Arab regimes to be regarded as a friend. Just about every pro-Palestinian demonstration in the Arab world has been used to attack the ruling power.

So, Arab leaders are discussing with the Bush administration the prospect that Arafat will be sent into exile. Egypt has said it will take Arafat. Morocco is another address.

Some Arab leaders have already held contacts with likely successors. Arafat does not leave any one likely successor. Indeed, he has spent a lifetime preventing such a prospect.

Instead, the assessment is that Arafat will be replaced by a group of Palestinian political and security chiefs. They eventually will be endorsed by the Palestine National Council and perhaps by the Palestinian Legislative Council in an effort to grant the new leaders a form of legitimacy.

One proposal, the sources say, is to elect a Palestinian prime minister who is separate from the Palestine Liberation Organization. The idea is to have a Palestinian administrator who would be responsible solely to the residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip rather than the millions of Palestinian refugees in the Arab world.

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Re: IA Will this work? -- Interested Awareness, 17:03:38 04/13/02 Sat