The “Man Of Peace”
There is, perhaps, no greater indignity in the world of honorifics than the bestowing of the Nobel Peace Prize on the richly undeserving Yasir Arafat. A newly released State Department document shows this absurdity in gruesome detail:
In the early evening hours of 1 March 1973, eight Black September Organization (BSO) terrorists seized the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum as a diplomatic reception honoring the departing United States Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) was ending. After slightly wounding the United States Ambassador and the Belgian Charge d’Affaires, the terrorists took these officials plus the United States DCM, the Saudi Arabian Ambassador and the Jordanian Charge d’Affaires hostage. In return for the freedom of the hostages, the captors demanded the release of various individuals, mostly Palestinian guerrillas, imprisoned in Jordan, Israel and the United States.
The Khartoum operation was planned and carried out with the full knowledge and personal approval of Yasir Arafat, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and the head of Fatah. Fatah representatives based in Khartoum participated in the attack, using a Fatah vehicle to transport the terrorists to the Saudi Arabian Embassy.
…Negotiations with the BSO terrorist team were conducted primarily by the Sudanese Ministers of Interior and of Health. No effort was spared, within the capabilities of the Sudanese Government, to secure the freedom of the hostages. The terrorists extended their deadlines three times, but when they became convinced that their demands would not be met and after they reportedly had received orders from Fatah headquarters in Beirut, they killed the two United States officials and the Belgian Charge.
Some of you may know what Bob Dylan says about men of peace…I anxiously await the comments of Jimmy Carter…
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December 28th, 2006 at 11:06 am
Powerline had a story about this up, and even more frightening than the Nobel committee’s choice for recipient was the Department of State’s instinctual defense of Arafat even though they knew that he was tied to the people who killed two State employees. And these are the people who’s word we are supposed to take over the President and the Pentagon as to the nature of the Iraqi threat? I mean, saying “there’s no evidence between Arafat’s Fatah and Black September” sounds an awful lot like “Hussein would never work with al Qaeda”, or “Iran is Shiite and al Qaeda is Sunni, so they’re enemies and could never cooperate”. To me, this just seems like willful blindness.