08/11/1989
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"Arafat undercut former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas."
"Yasser Arafat has, quote, "failed as a leader of the Palestinians.""
"We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th. The vice president said was that he had been involved with al Qaeda. And al Zarakawi, an al Qaeda operative, was in Baghda..."
"Mr. Bush today formally asked Congress for $87 billion to pay for the war in Iraq and reconstruction costs there, as well as Afghanistan."