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...failure to achieve more. "Who can accept this?" said an angry Arafat, complaining of the Israeli siege of his Ramallah headquarters. Powell, for his part, focused on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's promise to wind down the Israeli military...
...The secretary of state plans to see Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for a second time Wednesday at his battered Ramallah headquarters, where Israeli troops have him confined. In a further blow to U.S. efforts, Syria denounced Sharon's proposal...
...would resist. "Our people will never keep silence about all of these Israeli attacks," he told visitors at his Ramallah headquarters. The 72-year-old Palestinian leader also acknowledged that he might not be around long enough to witness...
...a Palestinian shooting attack. As part of the Israeli reprisal, tanks also tightened their cordon around the Ramallah headquarters of Arafat, who has been confined to the city by Israel since Nov. 29. Ahmed Abdel Rahman, secretary of the...
...Arafat "will not be able to return." Arafat has been confined in his offices by Israeli troops holding his Ramallah headquarters since Friday. Palestinian Planning Minister Nabil Shaath said that Arafat "will not leave Palestine." Secretary...
...he meets with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who remains confined by Israeli forces to a few rooms of his Ramallah headquarters. "Arafat is the only address," Abdel Rahman said Saturday, a day after U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni became...
...control over his forces (Arafat said he was prevented from exercising authority because he was cooped up in his Ramallah headquarters). So now he's out and 16 more innocents are dead. More will probably die from their wounds. The Israeli...
...sideline him. Since a major Israeli military offensive that began in March, he has been largely confined to his Ramallah headquarters. Raanan Gissin, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said the speech was meaningless and that...
...leader Yasser Arafat criticized the operation. "It is a very big crime that was committed through military aggression against our people and against our (religious) holidays," Arafat told reporters at his Ramallah headquarters.