On the recordMay 14, 2002
This is going to be the last document and there is more, but this is dated March 24, 2002, and during the stage of these operations, and this is a copy of minutes of a meeting at the Ramallah headquarters, and Chairman Arafat is in attendance at this meeting along with Hamas, and the statements in the minutes of the meeting in Arabic are such that Chairman Arafat is upset that there was a bombing inside the green line when General Zinni was in Israel, and the inference is they would have preferred the bombing outside the green line and not when General Zinni was in Israel. The Israelis did not write this. No one is questioning the authenticity. This is Arafat inside his own meetings, meeting with Hamas, talking about terrorist activity, not trying to prevent them at any level in any way, and we could ignore this if we want to ignore it, but the weight is so overwhelming at this point that it is unignorable.
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