Palestinian
girl shot dead in Gaza
BBC, October 9, 2002
There has been more violence
in the Gaza Strip, with
Palestinian medical staff
saying a 12-year-old girl
was killed by Israeli fire
in the southern town of
Rafah.
Israel
Defense Chief Moves Against
Jewish Settlers
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer,
October 9, 2002
JERUSALEM - Israeli Defense
Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer
ordered the army on Wednesday
to start dismantling rogue
Jewish settler outposts
in the West Bank.
PA
dismisses removal of illegal
outposts as a smokescreen
Ha'aretz, October 9, 2002
Following the removal of
two illegal West Bank settlement
outposts by the IDF on Wednesday,
Palestinian official Nabil
Abu Rdainah dismissed the
move saying it was an Israeli
smokescreen aimed at clouding
"violations of international
law and assaults against
the Palestinian people".
Palestinian
Killed, Israeli Gunfire
Rips Through Gaza School
Islam Online October 9,
2002
GAZA CITY, October 9
(IslamOnline & News
Agencies) - A Palestinian
was killed and 20 others
were wounded Wednesday,
October 9, in the southern
Gaza Strip town of Rafah
as Israeli tanks opened
fire from the border area
with Egypt, Palestinian
medical sources said.
Six
School Children Wounded
in Jenin, Four Settlers
Near Hebron
Palestine Chronicle, October
8, 2002
HEBRON - At least four Israeli
settlers were injured before
noon Tuesday when the car
they were riding came under
fire east of the Palestinian
town of Yatta, south of
Hebron.
Powell
says Israeli officials must
'examine their actions'
Ha'aretz, October 9, 2002
Powell: 'A halt to terrorist
activities would of course
produce a halt to the response.':
U.S. Secretary of State
Colin Powell warned Tuesday
that Israeli officials must
"examine their actions with
great care" and try to avoid
killing Palestinian civilians.
Israeli
forces move into divided
Hebron
The Gainesville Sun, October
9, 2002
JERUSALEM - Israeli armored
vehicles rolled into the
Palestinian parts of the
divided West Bank city of
Hebron Tuesday, after Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon defended
an Israeli raid in Gaza
that resulted in the deaths
of 16 Palestinians.
For
US Media Khan Yunis Massacre
is Business as Usual
Palestine Media Watch, October
8, 2002
"These are the actual words
of an editor of the most
influential daily in the
US. The more Israelis kill
Palestinians, the less newsworthy
the killing .."
Group
4 security firm pulls guards
out of West Bank
The Guardian, October 9,
2002
The security conglomerate
Group 4 Falck, which pioneered
the private contracting
of detention facilities
and prisons in Britain,
has decided to withdraw
the private guards employed
by one of its offshoots
at Israeli settlements in
the West Bank after the
Guardian raised questions
about their behaviour and
the legality of their role.
Tariq
Aziz: Israel to ''transfer''
Palestinians to Jordan in
the event of U.S. attack
on Iraq
Al-Bawaba, October 9, 2002
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister
Tariq Aziz said Wednesday
that in the event of a U.S.
attack on Iraq, Israel would
take advantage of the resulting
chaos to "transfer" Palestinians
into Jordan.
Sharon
vows more Gaza raids
Jerusalem Post, October
9, 2002
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
on Tuesday bucked international
condemnation of Monday morning's
Khan Yunis raid, calling
it both important and successful.
The number of Palestinians
killed in the raid, meanwhile,
rose to 16.
White
House 'exaggerating Iraqi
threat'
The Guardian, October 9,
2002
Bush's televised address
attacked by US intelligence
President Bush's case against
Saddam Hussein, outlined
in a televised address to
the nation on Monday night,
relied on a slanted and
sometimes entirely false
reading of the available
US intelligence, government
officials and analysts claimed
yesterday.
Palestinians
leaders looking at new tactic:
Israel citizenship
Tallahassee Democrat, October
8, 2002
WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Palestinian
leaders frustrated over
the stalemated peace process
warned the Bush administration
this week that they are
contemplating a radical
and explosive new tactic:
dropping their longstanding
demand for an independent
Palestinian state and instead
seeking full citizenship
within Israel.
Two
Palestinians shot dead;
Israel raids Hebron; PA,
Hamas try to ease Gaza Strip
tensions
Al-Bawaba, October 8, 2002
One Palestinian was killed
and six others wounded on
Tuesday by Israeli gunfire
near the northern West Bank
city of Jenin, Palestinian
sources said.
Clashes
renewed between the Palestinian
police, Hamas in Gaza
Arabic News, October 9,
2002
Confrontation were renewed
on Tuesday between the Palestinian
police men and members of
the Hamas movement in Gaza,
despite the call made by
the PLO to forbid internal
fighting.
Israel
renewed aggressions, Sharon
threatens more massacres
Arabic News, October 9,
2002
The Israeli carnage in Khan
Younis which claimed the
lives of 15 Palestinians
while other 150 were wounded,
was followed by further
aggressions against the
Palestinians in Gaza resulted
in more wounded and detained
Palestinians.
Settlers
accuse government of encouraging
terrorism
Jerusalem Post, October
9, 2002
MK Zvi Hendel of the Yisrael
Beitenu Party denounced
the removal of settlement
outposts Wednesday as a
move that would encourage
more terrorism.
Defense
Ministry says troops dismantled
three West Bank settlement
outposts
Jerusalem Post, October
9, 2002
The IDF dismantled three
Jewish settlement outposts
in the West Bank on Wednesday
and plans to remove 24 others
in the coming week, Defense
officials said.
Fatah-Hamas
talk to defuse Gaza Strip
tensions
Jerusalem Post, October
9, 2002
Fatah and Hamas representatives
met Tuesday night in the
Gaza Strip in an attempt
to end the confrontation
between Hamas and the PA
following the kidnapping
and killing of Col. Rajeh
Abu Lihyeh, commander of
the the PA's riot police,
by Hamas gunmen, and the
killing of four Hamas militants
in clashes between Hamas
gunmen and PA police that
followed the murder on Monday.
Israel
razes houses in West Bank,
arrests Palestinians; Unpopulated
Jewish settlement outposts
dismantled
Al-Bawaba, October 9, 2002
Israeli soldiers demolished
two homes of Palestinian
activists early Wednesday
in a village near the West
Bank city of Nablus, witnesses
and the Israeli army said.
Security
company Hashmira's Danish
parent tells it to quit
West Bank operations
Globes, October 9, 2002
Israeli security company
Hashmira will quit operations
on the West Bank because
its Danish parent company
Group 4 Falck is worried
about breaking international
laws, Reuters reported today.
White
House again slaps Israel
over Gaza raid
Ha'aretz, October 9, 2002
In the face of Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon's defiance
of U.S. demands, the White
House gave Israel a sharp
slap Tuesday over a raid
into Gaza earlier in the
week that killed Palestinian
civilians.
Judge
delays ruling on extending
custody for Barghouti deputy
Jerusalem Post, October
9, 2002
Marwan Barghouti's right-hand
man, Nasser Abu Hamid, shut
his eyes and covered his
ears while a district prosecutor
explained to the Jerusalem
District Court why the suspect
should be remanded in custody
until the end of proceedings.
Tutu
berates bellicose Bush
Toronto Star, September
26, 2002
Women and children would
suffer most in war on Iraq,
Nobel winner warns: I INTERVIEWED
Bishop Desmond Tutu in Toronto
last Friday. The previous
day, he had told a meeting
in Scarborough he was saddened
by the increasing intolerance
of the post-Sept. 11 world.
He had compared current
public discourse to that
of apartheid South Africa
in which all blacks were
demonized as savages, out
"to drive the white folks
into the sea," and Nelson
Mandela and other liberation
fighters were all labelled
terrorists.
Oxfam
shuns £5,000 in row over
book
The Guardian, October 9,
2002
Oxfam has turned down a
£5,000 donation from a distinguished
professor of philosophy
because it is linked to
his latest book which defends
the Palestinians' right
to carry out suicide bombings
and terrorist attacks.
Lukewarm
response to Straw's tour
to shore up support in Middle
East
The Guardian, October 9,
2002
The foreign secretary, Jack
Straw, began a four-country
tour of the Middle East
yesterday in a mission to
shore up support in the
region for a tough UN resolution
on Iraq backed by the threat
of force.
Iraq
attack likely 'only if provoked'
BBC, October 9, 2002
The US Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) believes Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein could
respond with chemical or
biological weapons if he
thinks an American-led strike
against him is imminent.
Iraq
makes more concessions while
CIA chief says Saddam may
attack U.S. as '\'last chance'\'
option
Al-Bawaba, October 9, 2002
Iraq agreed in talks last
week to allow UN weapons
inspectors to decide where
and how to interview its
citizens, chief inspector
Hans Blix said in a letter.
British
FM in Tehran; Entry of CNN
chief international correspondent
barred
Al-Bawaba, October 9, 2002
British Foreign Secretary
Jack Straw arrived in Tehran
Wednesday on the last leg
of his regional tour on
the backdrop of a possible
US-led attack on Iraq.
Sharon
to press on with offensive
Arab News, October 9, 2002
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, 9 October
— Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon scoffing at
international criticism
said yesterday that he would
press on with military operations
into the Gaza Strip, a day
after a bloody raid killed
14 Palestinians.
Three
Jordanian trade unionists
arrested over membership
in anti- normalization society
Arabic News, October 9,
2002
Jordanian legal sources
said that the State Court
attorney general Col. Mahmoud
Obeidat on Tuesday ordered
the arrest of three trade
unionists accused of being
members in a "non legal
society" which stands against
normalization with Israel.
Judge
sorts the issues in Al-Arian
struggle
St. Petersburg Times, October
9, 2002
TAMPA -- A federal judge
must decide whether the
University of South Florida
lawsuit against Palestinian
professor Sami Al-Arian
can continue and, if so,
which court should hear
it.
Solana
confers with Sharon, Arafat
Arabic News, October 9,
2002
The Israeli prime minister
Ariel Sharon has justified
the new Monday Israeli massacre
against the Palestinian
in Khan Younis as for protecting
the Israeli settlers.
U.N.
group under fire over camps
in Mideast
Washington Times, October
9, 2002
The U.N. agency that has
run relief programs for
displaced Palestinians for
the past 50 years is facing
criticism from some U.S.
lawmakers, who say it is
at least partially responsible
for terrorism against Israel.
'We
have nothing to lose'
Washington Times, October
9, 2002
Ismail Abu Shanab, a former
adviser to Hamas spiritual
leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin,
is a top political leader
of that Palestinian Islamic
movement. An engineering
professor at the Islamic
University of Gaza, Mr.
Shanab spoke with reporter
Joshua Mitnick about the
U.S. war on terrorism and
the two-year -old Palestinian
uprising.
Sharon,
Bush to discuss money transfers
to PA
Globes, October 9, 2002
Washington sources: Mechanism
must be ready before tax
money is transferred to
the Palestinians: Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon and
US President George W. Bush
will discuss next week whether
the Palestinian Authority
(PA) has fulfilled Israel’s
conditions for transferring
tax receipts withheld by
Israel, Washington sources
told “Globes”.
Ayalon
initiating US-Israeli economic
council
Globes, October 9, 2002
Ambassador to the US Daniel
Ayalon is initiating the
establishment of a supreme
US-Israeli economic council
that will act to strengthen
bilateral economic relations.
The council would comprise
of representatives of the
Israeli prime minister and
US president.
New
gay face in Israeli parliament
Al-Bawaba, October 8, 2002
The first self-declared
homosexual Israeli Member
of Parliament is Professor
Uzi Even, number 13 on the
Meretz party list for the
Knesset (parliament), who
is expected to enter the
legislature on November
1st.
''Yediot
Ahronot'': IMI to deliver
$35m of UAVs to US
Globes, October 9, 2002
The unmanned aviations vehicles
(UAVs) may be used in an
attack on Iraq: Hebrew daily
''Yediot Ahronot'' reports
that the US has accelerated
its procurement of unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) from
Israel Military Industries
(IMI).
Al-Qaeda:
U.S. War on Iraq Aims At
Controlling Arab World
Islam Online October 9,
2002
DOHA , October 9 (IslamOnline
& News Agencies) - The
Al-Qaeda network is preparing
fresh strikes against the
United States and its allies,
especially France and Germany
, Al-Qaeda number two Ayman
Al-Zawahri warned on the
Arab satellite TV channel
Al-Jazeera on Tuesday, October
8.
Kuwaiti
Who Carried Out Marine Attack
Was Avenging Israeli Massacres
Islam Online October 9,
2002
KUWAIT CITY, October 9 (IslamOnline
& News Agencies) –
One of the Kuwaitis who
killed an American soldier
in the island of Failaka,
and who has three of his
family members detained
by U.S. forces in Guantanamo,
was deeply moved by the
Israeli massacres in Khan
Yunis.
Iraq:
If U.S. attacks, Israel
to 'herd' Palestinians to
Jordan
Ha'aretz, October 9, 2002
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister
Tariq Aziz declared Wednesday
that in the event of a U.S.
attack on Iraq, Israel would
take advantage of the resulting
chaos to "transfer" Palestinians
into Jordan.
Report:
U.S. expert to ask Lebanon
to delay Wazzani pumping
Ha'aretz, October 9, 2002
A U.S. water expert is in
Beirut for a week to ask
Lebanon to delay and scale
back work on a project to
draw water from the Wazzani
river that also feeds Israel,
and which has sparked a
diplomatic standoff with
Israel, the Lebanese newspaper
As Safir reported Wednesday.
Statement
Issued by the Palestinian
National Liberation Movement
FATAH, West Bank
Palestine Chronicle, October
8, 2002
"We hereby re-affirm that
no one has the right to
volunteer compromises on
issues of national interest
and concern, such as the
right of the refugees to
return in accordance with
UN General Assembly Resolution
194 .."
audio
Intelligence
report suggests attack on
Iraq would provoke what
Bush says he's trying to
prevent
BBC,
October 9, 2002
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A
political gap between CIA's
sober words and Bush's drum-beating
BBC,
October 9, 2002
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"The
region is as unsettled as
its ever been"
BBC,
October 9, 2002
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