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INTERNATIONAL
Israel storms West Bank citv
By Stephen Franklin
Chicago Tribune
RAM ALL AH, West Bank
(KRT)— Hunting house to house for
suspected terrorists, Israeli troops
took control of an entire Palestinian
city Monday for the first time in the
current 16-month intifada as Pales
tinian leader Yasser Arafat voiced
defiance from his besieged head
quarters in Ramallah.
The army said its incursion into
the West Bank town of Tulkarem
was to hunt for the perpetrators of a
deadly shooting attack last week at a
bat mitzvah in the Israeli town of
Hadera. Israeli troops backed by
dozens of tanks engaged in sporadic
gun battles with Palestinians that
continued into Tuesday morning.
At least two Palestinians were
killed and two dozen wounded.
The army imposed a strict curfew
on Tulkarem, detained a number of
suspects and raised the Israeli flag
over several seized buildings.
Arafat, despite being under virtu
al house arrest in his Ramallah
headquarters, surrounded by Israeli
tanks, brushed off the Tulkarem op
eration and the Israeli firepower
that inched closer to his doorfront a
few days ago. Vowing to risk his
own life, he said the Palestinians
would survive the current “tight
spot” to eventually build their state.
“They have crossed all red liqes,
and our people cannot stand with
their eyes closed to these Israeli at
tempts,” Arafat told a large group
of writers and intellectuals, who
were invited to his heavily guarded
compound to show their solidarity
with the besieged Palestinian
leader. “The proof of this is the
strong and firm steadfastness of our
people in Tulkarem.
“The Palestinian state will be es
tablished with (East Jerusalem) as
its capital. By God I see it coming,
martyred or alive,” he said.
Israeli tanks enter the West Bank town of Tulkarm on Monday.
KRT
Arafat spoke with Israeli tanks sit
ting within 100 feet of his headquar
ters, their long-range guns locked in
his direction. From several blocks
away came the roar of Israeli ma
chine-gun fire and the howl of am
bulances, rushing to pick up
wounded Palestinian demonstra
tors from clashes in Ramallah. One
Palestinian reportedly was killed in
those clashes.
While the Israeli army has repeat
edly entered Palestinian cities in re
cent months, sometimes staying for
weeks, its raid on Tulkarem was the
first time it had taken control of a
whole city since Palestinian self-rule
began in 1994. Israeli officials said
they did not plan to stay permanently,
but offered no timetable for their exit.
“This is not a reoccupation,” said
Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz, the army chief
of staff. “Occupation is when you go
house to house, impose military rule
and ultimately stay there. We have
no intention of staying forever. ”
After entering the city around 3
a.m. Monday, Israeli troops arrested
10 members of the militant Islamic
groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad,
military officials said. Israeli offi
cials said they had notified Palestin
ian officials in advance about their
takeover of the city.
“We mean to arrest terrorists and
prevent attacks,” said Israeli army
spokesman Lt. Col. Oliver Rafovich.
“After so many casualties, we had no
choice but to clean up various areas. ”
The military decided to go into
Tulkarem, Rafovich said, after the at
tack last Thursday by a Palestinian
gunman at a banquet hall in the near
by Israeli city of Hadera. Seven peo
ple were killed, including the attack
er, and at least 30 were wounded.
Israeli newspapers have been full
of stories this week about dissent
within the ranks of Palestinian lead
ership, and the possibility that
Arafat would resign. But Palestin
ian officials denied the rumors
Monday, saying such rumors are an
effort by Israel to destabilize the
Palestinian leadership.
©2002, Chicago Tribune. Distributed by
Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services.
Injured detainees arrive in Cuba
By Carol Rosenberg
Knight Ridder Newspapers
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL
BASE, Cuba (KRT) — Bullet-rid
dled casualties of the war in
Afghanistan, 14 suspected al-Qaida
and Taliban terrorists arrived on
stretchers Monday at a prison com
pound nearing capacity to face un
certain U.S. justice and receive top
notch Navy medical care.
Four Marines in fatigues and yel
low rubber gloves carried each arrival,
one by one, off a huge Air Force trans
port plane to raise to 158 the number
of captives at Camp X-Ray, a com
pound of eight-by-eight foot chain
link cells. The compound had 160
cells on Monday. Thirty new cells
should be ready Thursday, Marine
Brig. Gen. Michael Lehnert said.
The prisoners were seen by doc
tors on their arrivals and three will
require surgery for infection short
ly, Lehnert said.
All arrived in stable condition
from earlier surgery by U.S. military
doctors in Kandahar, Afghanistan,
to remove bullets from their arms or
legs, said Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr.
Brendan McPherson.
Reporters watched the sober un
loading operation from a hilltop
overlooking the runway. All wore
turquoise surgical masks and orange
jumpsuits topped by blue denim
jackets as protection against the chill
during their 8,000-mile journey
from South Asia to the Caribbean
aboard a C-141 Starlifter from An
drews Air Force Base in Virginia.
Two were leg amputees. One was
missing a left leg, below the knee.
“They were restrained in an ap
propriate manner, which did not ag
gravate their medical conditions,”
said McPherson, a spokesman for
the prison camp project. “A medical
team was on board to provide any
medical care they needed. ”
Commanders here have gone out
of their way to characterize the cap
tives’ conditions here as humane but
not comfortable, part of a balancing
act between the Geneva Conventions
and strict security measures.
Still, human rights groups have
protested what they characterized as
sensory deprivation and inhumane
treatment the security measures,
which include blinding, shackling
and deafening them in transit and
placing them on their knees in shack
les before in-prison processing.
In Los Angeles, a federal judge
agreed to hear a petition from civ
il rights advocates, including for
mer Attorney General Ramsey
Clark, which challenge the deten
tions at Guantanamo.
Separately, the Netherlands de
manded the United States recognize
the detainees as prisoners of war with
rights under the Geneva Conventions.
“In the fight against terrorism, we
need to uphold our norms and val
ues,” said Dutch Foreign Affairs
Minister Jozias van Aartsen. “That
applies to prisoners, too.”
©2002, The Miami Herald. Distributed by
Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services.
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