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...Palestinian Authority says, "The King wants Hamas to come to the conclusion that its place is no longer in Jordan." That may be happening. Last week Hamas sources said they were relocating the headquarters of their political wing from Jordan to Syria. That office is headed by KHALED MESHAL, whom Israeli agents tried, unsuccessfully, to poison to death in Amman last year. King Hussein saved Meshal's life by forcing Israel to provide an antidote, and to free Sheik Yassin in exchange for the captured agents...
Prime Minister BENJAMIN NETANYAHU is under heavy criticism in Israel for sending Mossad agents on a failed attempt to kill a Hamas leader, KHALED MESHAL, on a commercial street in the Jordanian capital of Amman, prompting KING HUSSEIN to threaten to sever relations. Answering the charges of recklessness, an Israeli official says that precisely to avoid embarrassing the King, Mossad chose to spray a toxin into Meshal's ear. Says the source: "The decision to act was taken based on the 100% success rate of this method, which left no fingerprints whatsoever. If they had done it in the right...
When the whole astonishing affair began, Khaled Meshal didn't even realize he'd been targeted. The Jordanian-based political chief of the radical Palestinian group Hamas was walking from his car to his office in Amman when two pedestrians passed close by. Meshal's driver and bodyguard, Mohammed Abu Saif, though, saw one of the men put some kind of device wrapped in cloth up to Meshal's head. And so Abu Saif jumped into the car, caught up to the two and fought them viciously until a passing police patrol arrested all three. The driver's story seemed...
...hour later, Meshal began to feel ill. He checked into a hospital, vomiting, dizzy and with breathing problems that necessitated a respirator. When local doctors could not determine the cause of his trauma, Jordanian officials began to suspect what was in fact the truth: the two men weren't tourists at all, nor were they Canadians; they were agents of Israel's spy agency Mossad, dispatched to Amman to assassinate Meshal by contaminating him with a chemical agent, apparently in retaliation for suicide bombings in Jerusalem in July and September that had taken the lives of 21 Israelis...
...King insisted that the Israelis supply an antidote to the poison their hit men had inflicted on Meshal. Netanyahu complied, and an American doctor from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., was summoned to treat Meshal, who was released from the hospital last Thursday. But Hussein remained outraged and by Saturday was refusing even to talk to the Israelis. On that day he telephoned President Clinton and asked him to intervene to resolve the crisis. Several U.S. officials scrambled to find a resolution, urging Netanyahu to do whatever was necessary to mollify the King...