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Show 5 The Salt Lake Tribune WORLD | Wednesday, November21, 2001 Israelis Fear U.S. Envoy MayBe Too Pro-Arab BY CAROL ROSENBERG KNIGHTRIDDER NEWS SERVICE M One dayaf- ary of State Colin announced h¢ was dispatching a decorated,, retired Marine Corps general to forge an Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire, someIsraelicommenta were worrying that the special envoy’s Persian Gulfmilitary experience might makehimtoo pro-Arab. Barak:Palestinians Sought Exch fot Uprising To prepare for command at Centcom, he studied Arabic, tinian uprising against Israel was premeditated, although Yasser Arafat’s blamingof the violence on Ariel Sharon’svisit toa disputed holysite was Middle East history andpolitics, and has traveled widely through the Arab world. Sharon has acknowledged he toured thesite to stakeIsrael’sclaim to it. Barak testified before a three-memberinquiry walled hilltop compound in JerusalemonSept. 28, 2000, because there were no clear warnings by Israeli or Palestinian security officials that his cuss the choice publicly. Pri- vately, a seniorpolitical adviser into the riots that spread to Israeli Arab communities comprising almosta fifth ofIsrael's 6.5 visit wouldtriggerrioting. anticipated no problems, so longas Zinni sticks to military Pier Paolo Cito/The Associated Press FormerIsraeli Prime Minister Ehud Baraktestifies Tuesday on the Palestinian uprising. matters, maps, disengagement a political ii ssues to promote se-fire. A The Palestinians contend thatfighting, now in its 14th month, wastriggered by Sharon'svisit, which they viewed as a major provocation. “not a bad pretext. Barak said he permitted Sharon to go to the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office refused to dis- Newspaper and television analysts zeroed in Tues mn Gen. AnthonyZinn: Thenext day, hundredsof Palestinians in the compound began to throwstones over the walls. Israeli police stormed thesite to disperse them. Six Palestinians were killed in Jerusalem and in riots in the West Bank. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — FormerIsraeli Prime Minister Ehud Baraktestified Tuesday that the Pales- VALUABLE During Sharon's tourof the shrine, revered byJewsasthe Temple Mountand by Muslimsas the Haram as-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, scuffling broke out among Palestinian demonstrators. millioncitizens. In retrospect, Barak said, Sharon should not havevisited the shrine at that time. However, Barak said he suspected Arafat had already made uphis mindto resort to violence. (Oa Sal te ae ae commander in chief of ,the Tampa, Fia.-based © he DP hag eee ee Central Command, responsiblefor U.S. militaryactivities in the Middle East, excluding Israel. 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The men and women, most in their 20s and 30s, looked like tour' talking eyes closed and hands pressed as if in prayer. a Police vans quickly encir- cled the protesters. Uniformed officers separated those who interlocked arms. After brief resistance, police loaded them onto vans and drove away. The incidentlasted 10 minutes. State television said 35 foreigners were detained. They were given warnings and would be expelled,it said, “Their behavior violated Chinese laws governing parades and demonstrations and cults,”the official Xinhua News Agency said. Until now,the vast majority of the thousands of protesters detained on or around Tiananmen Square since the government banned Falun Gong in July 1999 have been Chinese, Protests hadtailed off in re- cent months,in part because of intense security on the square, Many followers are in jail, have renounced the group under pressure or have . government it press| switched to protesting covertly, — no hoes YOUR WORLD. 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