U.S. Knew Arafat Was Behind Murder of Diplomats

This was in 1973, so don't know the make-up of State Department employees then. But getting useful dhimmi State Department employees murdered by Islamic terrorists is a good idea. Everyone is happy:

• Those opposed to the State Department appeasing Islamic forces throughout the world, like Kosovo, Chechnya, India (not Kashmir), Egypt, Jordan et al are happy
  
• State Department officials are obviously happy, since it doesn't outrage them enough to make them lift a finger
  
• The terrorists are happy, since they got to kill some infidels, while getting rewarded for their actions by the very employer of those infidels.
  

For the record:

Ambassador Cleo A. Noel Jr. and George Curtis Moore - do you remember these names? You should. Ambassador Noel and Moore were among a group of men seized and held hostage by Yassir Arafat’s Black September terrorists during a reception at the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum. Their lives hung by a thread, a thread that Yassir Arafat ordered cut. His words ordering the execution of these top American officials and a Belgian diplomat were recorded by the Israelis who gave the tape to the State Department and President Nixon in March 1973. This was later confirmed by Gen. Ariel Sharon.

Cleo A. Noel Jr. and George Curtis Moore were among a group of men seized by Black September terrorists during a reception held at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum [Sudan]. The terrorists demanded the release of Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian assassin of Robert Kennedy, as well as terrorists being held in Israeli and European prisons. President Nixon refused to negotiate. The tape was of conversations between Arafat in Beirut and his thugs in Khartoum. Execute the diplomats, ordered Arafat. The terrorists obeyed, machine gunning the unarmed, hapless Noel and Moore. They also killed a Belgium diplomat. The authenticity of the tape was verified in U.S. laboratories by both the State Department and the White House.

On March 2, 1973, around 8:00pm (local) --Abu-Iyad called Abu-Ghassan and gave him the Cold River [Nahr al-Bard] code: "Remember Nahr al-Bard. The people's blood in the Nahr al-Bard is screaming for revenge. These are our final orders. We and the world are watching you." The execution took place on 9:06. (Reportedly, about half an hour later than planned because Abu-Tariq let the Americans write last letters and wills.) A few minutes later, when the international media still did not report the killing, Beirut wanted to make sure that the executions took place. Arafat himself did the talking to Abu-Ghassan. He asked him if he received the code word Nahr al-Bard and if he understood what it meant. Abu-Ghassan assured Arafat that he had understood everything and that his -- Arafat's -- orders had already been carried out fully.

It appears Nixon had bigger problems in 1973(of his own making) than to worry about a couple of murders committed by PLO terrorists. But why did Ford and succesive presidents allow Arafag legitimacy on the world stage? Disgraceful.

William The Crusader wrote: But why did Ford and succesive presidents allow Arafat legitimacy on the world stage? Disgraceful.

I've always wondered that myself. Yasser Arafat during the 60's and 70's was THE number 1 terrorist in the world, without question. I have simply never been able to understand how he seemingly over night went from Head Terrorist to "Mr. President" and a Nobel Prize - all with the blessings of the US government.

I do recall that there have been in years past numerous allegations that the entrenched career diplomats that controlled the State Department were virulently anti-Israel and pro-Arab, which certainly might go some long ways to explaining any number of actions of our "government" over the years.

And too, you might note that there are at least a few good old boys from those good old days still roaming the halls of power in D.C. Donald Rumsfield is one of them.

GallopingGranny...

I certainly would not consider Donald Rumsfeld to be a "good old boy". War criminal is more like it.

Carrying the point further, we are all kissy face with the Russians, but it was Moscow that ordered the murder of US Ambassador Adolf Dubs in Kabul, Afganistan, in February, 1979. They readily admitted that he was murdered by the KGB.

Yet the DOS maintains we should continue to work with Mommy Russia. If not, they are all out of jobs. It always gets back to someones paycheck.

Arafat should have received the same treatment that the jihadi murderers at the Munich Olympics earned.

Otherwise you merely encourage more terror.

As History keeps regurgitating.

How long before Ahmadinejad gets DOS acolades and is seen walking hand-in-hand with GWB down at the ranch?

BTW; crediting Lee Rodgers on the radio this AM, he introduced me to an ancient Greek word: kakistocracy - a government run by morons.

The West seems to have a plethora of them!

This isn't news Spencer.

It has been widely reported, at least since Clinton tried to get Arafat to become an interlocutor for peace.

Someone earlier asked why Nixon and Ford, and their successors not move on Arafat, because to do so, might rile the Saudis, or at least see pressure swell within islam for the Saudis to declare a new oil boycott.

It's all so damn squalid.

There was always the theory that we needed someone to negotiate with. If we got rid of Arafat (may his name be forgotten), then the "Palestinians" would break down into small autonomous chaotic homicidal units that could not be bargained with.

So we let him live, and the "Palestinians" broke down into small autonomous chaotic homicidal units that cannot be bargained with.

But at least AIDS gave him a long and painful death. It's a small comfort.

WOW!

The US government involved in a conspiracy to aid Islamic causes?

Who saw that happening?

8^)

CD Baric

There were also US diplomats murdered in Lebanon by Arafat's gang, not to mention those murdered by others, such as Hizbullah. Arafat also had at least one French diplomat murdered in Lebanon. None of this turned the USA or France against Arafat. How do we explain that?

Eliyahu asked:
None of this turned the USA or France against Arafat. How do we explain that?

To keep him around to torment the Israelis?

Don't forget that the State Department saved him in 1982 and moved him from Beirut to Tunis and then helped return him, under the Madrid Peace Talks (Baker - Shamir standoff!), to the region.