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Titolo: [Lungo] SF Usa nella West Bank

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. In breve, si parla di un
contingente di Special Forces USA in azione in questo momento nella West
Bank. Pensate sia vero o e' propaganda?
Ale
DEBKAfile’s military sources:
US and Israeli Special Forces Try to Head Off Arafat’s Next Terror
Offensive
4 April:  Four men are now in Israel’s sights. Two – Yasser Arafat and
Palestinian intelligence chief Tawfik Tirawi – are under siege in
Ramallah. 
The other two – Fatah-Tanzim militia chief Marwan Barghouti and Rashid
Abu Shbak, deputy to Gaza preventative security chief Mohammed Dahlan –
are running for their lives with Israeli intelligence services on their
heels.
These manhunts take time.  Palestinian bombmaker Yahya Ayyash was not
caught in a day, while the world’s most wanted fugitive, al Qaeda’s
Osama bin Laden, and his senior lieutenant, the notorious Imad
Mughniyeh, continue to elude the most intensive pursuits.
A senior Israeli security source, asking to remain anonymous, told the
Washington Post that Israel’s biggest mistake in the past 18 months of
the Intifada was to show too much respect for the Palestinian
Authority’s top executives. They were awarded VIP passes, weapons, their
entrée to the White House, money, territory, an airport, a seaport,
health services and jobs. 
Israel was repaid with lynching, explosives belts and a widening culture
of suicide bombings.
Back in October 2000, DEBKAfile was the first to carry the transcript of
a telephone conversation between Arafat and Barghouti, in which the
Palestinian leader told the militia chief, “Kill – kill as many Jews as
you can.”
Several days later, DEBKAfilerevealed that Tirawi, the intelligence
chief, had taken charge of the terror offensive on the Modi’in-Jerusalem
highway, and that he and Barghouti had split up the terror orbit between
them – the Ramallah-Jerusalem highway for Barghouti; the
Modi’in-Jerusalem Route 443 for Tirawi.
Dahlan is the equal of any of the other four terror chiefs. DEBKAfilewas
again the first publication to take a close look at the Gaza security
chief’s exploits in the long months of the Palestinian confrontation. An
innovator, with a good scientific brain – if terrorism can be termed a
science – it was Dahlan who first applied cellular telephones to
triggering car bombs and explosive devices. He created the Palestinian
“military industries”, that manufacture mortars and rockets. Most
recently, Dahlan orchestrated  the bomb-blasts that destroyed two
Merkava-3 tanks. 
Arafat also entrusted him with welcoming Hizbollah arrivals in the Gaza
Strip.
All the same, not he but his deputy, Abu Shbak is the object of Israeli
pursuit. 
The Gaza terror executive has drawn an immunity card against a promise
to the Americans and Israelis to kept the Gaza Strip calm as long as
battles rage in the West Bank.
Overnight, bombings, infiltrations and shooting attacks have tapered off
in the territory he controls. An unseen hand has miraculously silenced
every rifle barrel and explosive. Hamas and Islamic Jihad have melted
into the background, and talk of dialogue with their leaders instead of
Arafat’s Fatah has dried up.
Dahlan believes that after the Israeli army cleanses the West Bank of
terrorists, his big chance will come to take over that territory too. He
has promised that he will bring tranquility there, like the Gaza Strip. 
In more than half the world, meanwhile, Israeli is being condemned for
its operation to purge terror. UN secretary general Kofi Annan and
leaders in Europe, China and Japan, backed by vocal media, demand an
immediate halt to Israel’s counter-terror offensive. On the other hand,
the US leaders  -- President George W. Bush, defense secretary Donald
Rumsfeld and secretary of state Colin Powell – sing a different tune.
They are quietly supported by German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder,
Russian president Vladimir Putin and British prime minister Tony Blair,
who thus indirectly sanction the Israel action. 
Arguments heard from opposition groups in Israel, contending that the
Sharon government is taking on the whole world by continuing its
offensive, are treated by the Israeli majority as self-serving rather
than representing the true situation. Some Israeli media, for example,
distorted US secretary of state Colin Powell’s latest message. He was
represented as voicing a strong opinion against Arafat’s removal. All he
said in fact, was that the Palestinian leader must not be forcibly
deported. If Arafat chose to leave voluntarily, it would be perfectly
acceptable to Washington. 
One of his comments struck a note of hostility to the Palestinian
leader: If Arafat moves somewhere else, he warned sternly, he will keep
on doing there what he has been doing here. The implication was that
those doings would not become more salutary if transplanted. Clearly,
the US secretary of state is under no illusion about Arafat continuing
his war of terror against Israel and the Jewish people wherever he goes.
To make sure the war situation does not zoom out of control, Washington
has posted two very senior officers in the Israel-Palestinian arena: CIA
chief George Tenet has been shuttling between Israel and other Middle
East capitals, while former Marine Corps general Anthony Zinni remains
in place even after he failed to secure a ceasefire.
Furthermore, DEBKAfile reports that members of American special forces
units have been spotted in undercover action for the first time.
Sporting US special forces combat gear and weapons, they were seen
moving against suspected terrorists during the battle around the
monasteries and churches of Bethlehem on Wednesday, April 2. 
When the moment came to extricate US and European citizens – some held
hostage by Palestinian militants - US armored cars drove up through the
streets of Bethlehem and well-armed American “security men” came to pick
them up. Israel tanks, helicopters and drones provided cover for the
five-hour operation to rescue all the foreign civilians stranded or held
hostage in Bethlehem. 
That was not their primary mission. DEBKAfile’s military sources report
that the US commando contingent is present for an undercover assignment
that could determine the outcome of the entire Israeli military
operation to root out the terrorist menace. Even Barghouti, Tirawi and
Abu Shbak are secondary targets, belonging to the past. A new threat is
posed by the foreign crack force Arafat has been able to smuggle into
the country from Lebanon. It is made up of highly-trained fighters –
Palestinian, Hizballah and al Qaeda. This group has been designated the
special target of the US contingent. 
This seek-and- destroy mission is underway in deep secrecy. But when it
is over, Arafat’s latest threat will be exposed as having posed one of
the most decisive confrontations of the global war against terror. US
and Israeli commandos are now focusing all their strength on the effort
to catch the infiltrators before they can do their worst. 
President Bush, Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, Arafat and Middle
Eastern leaders have all suspended their next moves pending the outcome
of this clash. Bush, Powell and Rumsfeld are defending the combined
operation against critics the world over – some inside Israel too – so
as to give Sharon and the US contingent the time it needs to complete
its mission
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*La sconfitta reclama ad alta voce perche' esige spiegazioni; mentre la
vittoria, come la carita', nasconde un gran numero di peccati*
Alfred T. Mahan

 Bank. Pensate sia vero o e' propaganda? 
imho  dai toni e dalle accuse tutte da dimostrare su Arafat : propaganda
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 imho  dai toni e dalle accuse tutte da dimostrare su Arafat : propaganda
Credo anchio che non sia vero, ma speravo in qualche notizia piu'
precisa.
A propos, ti dovevo inviare un articolo di FA, a quale indirizzo te lo
mando? Semmai rispondimi in privato.
Ale
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