Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[ergo sum]

My conclusion about Arafat comes from this.

In 1999, in an episode not disclosed before, Clarke abandoned his house for a month and acquired a temporary Secret Service detail when Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat passed urgent (and ultimately uncorroborated) word that an al Qaeda hit team had been dispatched for him.

The CIA maps showing the West Bank and Gaza were the first maps to show this division of Palestine.

I will try and find them. It has been a few months since I saw them.

also this
WASHINGTON, April 6 (UPI) -- The Libyan government's pursuit of nuclear weapons has hastened since the United Nations suspended sanctions against that country in 1999, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs John Bolton said this weekend.
"Our evidence is very convincing that since the Security Council suspended sanctions because of Pan Am 103, that the government of Libya has substantially increased its efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction," Bolton said in an interview with Radio Sawa, a U.S.-funded AM radio station whose broadcasts cover most of the Arab world, including Iraq. Bolton would not share specific evidence, but he did say, "There is no question but since the suspension of the U.N. sanctions, that Libya's procurement activities and a lot of its activities in the nuclear program have been increased."
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030406-063132-9723r

John R. Bolton was sworn in as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security on May 11, 2001.
Prior to his appointment, Mr. Bolton was Senior Vice President of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). AEI is a nonprofit public policy center dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of freedom through research education, and open debate.