Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin
October 30, 2002

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PA: CIA Behind Moscow Terrorists
By Itamar Marcus

Introduction:
A senior writer in the Palestinian Authority official daily claims that the
attack in Moscow by Islamic terrorists was a CIA plot. According to the
writer, the US hopes that having the Russians suffer a Muslim terror attack
will convince them to vote with the US in the UN in support of attacking
Iraq. France, who also has been opposing the US on the coming UN vote, may
be next in line to suffer a Muslim terrorist attack initiated by the US,
according to the Palestinian Authority daily.

The following is from the text of the article:
"[Russian] President Putin's ambassador to the Security Council is
threatening to vote against the American's proposed resolution to attack
Iraq. This is how we view the operation in the Moscow theater; we are of
the opinion that the sympathy and friendship that bond Washington to several
Islamic movements in Europe, among them the Chechens, cannot possibly be
one-sided and there has to be some sort of repayment of the American
friendship by the "Mujahedin" [quotes in source] of Chechnya, Bosnia,
Hercegovina and Kosovo. The CIA will never acknowledge its responsibility
for this operation which claimed over 170 lives, including those of the
perpetrators.... However, the American message reached Moscow and was,
perhaps, read the same way by the decision makers in France, who oppose the
American pressure in the Security Council and insistently resist giving the
Americans an international power of attorney to destroy the most ancient of
Arab countries.
"We do not know whether there are members of pro-American organizations in
Paris, but we believe that American Intelligence has no need for operatives
in France, and we therefore fear a recurrence of a bloody scene in the
capitol of [our] friends, the French. We hope they are preparing for such
an eventuality, lest it be Moscow first and Paris next."

[Fuad Abu Hajleh, senior columnists, PA official daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,
October 29, 2002]