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| Middle East |
| Yasser avoids Jenin... |
| 2002-05-13 |
| Arafat's visit to the town of Jenin was also to include a tour of the devastated Jenin refugee camp. Some 3,000 camp residents turned out to see Arafat, but aides said privately that Arafat could face heckling in the camp and canceled the visit, a decision that disappointed many and angered some in the crowd. Nope, don't want any bad press. Maybe the Times and the Guardian won't pick it up... "He must visit the camp," Ahmad Nawasrah, an unemployed construction worker, said of Arafat. "We've lost our houses, we've lost our sons and we have gotten nothing. We hoped that he would have come and we could have shown him our problems." Yasss... If the Tsar only knew, he'd make things better. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |