Arafat lives
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Jerusalem
Israel has no intention of killing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said this week. Israel drew international criticism last month for stating an intention to “remove” Arafat, a goal one official said could be achieved by killing him. “I don’t see any plans to kill him,” Sharon told European legislators this week, “although the man is responsible for the deaths of hundreds, of thousands, of mostly civilians because his strategy is a strategy of terror.” Israeli army officials said the main threat right now came from Hezbollah, the terrorist group based in Lebanon and supported by Syria and Iran.
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