Mahmoud Abbas is whining that the Israelis are “interfering” with his summit with George Bush. Wah! Wah! Wah! (Where’s that baby picture Charles uses?) So what’s being discussed at that summit? Among other thing, the disarming of terrorists.
Abbas wants palestinians to disarm: But not the ones attacking Jews.
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora agreed at a U.N.-sponsored meeting in Paris on Tuesday that unrestricted movements of weapons and terrorists in Palestinian refugee camps are harmful to Lebanon.
The meeting was the first between Abbas and Saniora.
Terje Roed-Larsen, the U.N. special envoy on Syria-Lebanon, met separately with Saniora and Abbas to discuss Palestinian militias in Lebanon and other issues related to the implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559, which called for the dismantling of armed groups in Lebanon, in addition to a full Syrian withdrawal from the country.
Abbas, responding to reporters’ questions after the meeting at a Paris hotel, said Palestinian refugees were “guests†in Lebanon and were not above the country’s laws.
Thus you notice the excuse that will be made: The pals in Lebanon are guests, the ones in the West Bank and Gaza are “resistance fighters.”
And now for something completely undifferent:
Fence to protect Red Sea resort
BBC NEWS: 18October2005
Egypt has started to build a security fence around the Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Sheikh to try to stop attacks on the town, security officials say.
The officials said the fence would stretch for 20km (12 miles) and force vehicles wanting to enter the town to pass through one of four checkpoints.
More than 60 people were killed in July when suicide bombers launched attacks outside two hotels and a market.
Forces have arrested or killed several people suspected of involvement.
Several groups have said they carried out the attacks, with at least one citing links to the al-Qaeda network.
Concern over access
Authorities have finished 2km (1.2 miles) of the 1.5m-high fence on the northern side of the resort and a smaller section on the southern side, Reuters news agency quoted an official as saying.
A town resident told Reuters that one portion would cut off a nearby Bedouin settlement where many workers live.
A security official cited by AFP news agency said the fence was “not meant to stop any particular group of people but prevent terrorist attacks”.