yes that's right ;Yassir Arafat ordered the murder of 2 US diplomats in Sudan in 1973 when his Black September terrorist group stormed the Saudi embassy in Khartoum; taking American hostages and eventually killing Americans Cleo Noel,George Moore and Belgian diplomat, Guy Eid.

What is even worse is that the US State Dept. knew the details and kept it classified .

This information comes from a newly de-classified document http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/67584.pdf)

In late February 1973, the National Security Agency listening post in Cyprus picked up radio traffic of a planned PLO operation in Khartoum. Analyst Jim Welsh received the radio intercepts at the NSA in Washington.The NSA issued an urgent warning intended for the American Embassy in Khartoum to the State Department on February 28. This warning was held up and downgraded as a result of a bureaucratic snafu that is typical of our State Dept.

March 1, 1973, a gang of eight Black September thugs stormed a party at the Embassy in Khartoum and demanded the release of Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert Kennedy; the release of a Black September leader Muhammed Awadh (Abu Da'ud) held in Jordan; and the release of members of the Baader-Meinhof gang held in Germany. President Nixon and representatives of the other two governments announced that they would not negotiate with terrorists for the release of the diplomats. That evening the terrorists marched Noel, Moore and Eid to the embassy basement and murdered them.At the time ;Nixon was consumed with the Watergate affair and the last thing he needed, Welsh speculates, was an international scandal to deal with on the front page of the Washington Compost.Welsh also specuates that revealing the details would've meant that NSA would have had to disclose it's method of intel gathering and they wanted to protect the future viability of signals intelligence intercepts of this kind.


The operation was called Nahr al-Bard, or Cold River and Arafat had personally ordered it. The State Dept. knew of Arafat's connection and denied it until now. Instead the gvt. tried to promote Arafat as a peace maker .



Back in 1986 ,A group of 44 senators sent a letter US Att .Gen .Ed Meese urging the American government to charge Arafat with plotting the murders .State Department diplomats however worried that murder charges against Arafat would anger the United States' friends in the Arab world, are urging the Justice Department to drop the investigation. So instead ,the nobel peace prize winning Arafat was let off the hook to go on another multi-year killing spree.

This incident illustrates why I have so little confidence in the US State Department. (as people who visit the other Q&A site I frequent are well aware of )The Americans who were brutally murdered by Yasir Arafat's thugs were State's own employees. And yet, for years the department covered for Arafat.

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Let the dead rest in peace, please.

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