Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat may flee to Iraq with his top officials if violence in the territories continues to escalate, according to the Jerusalem Post. Citing an article in Jane’s Foreign Report, the newspaper said Arafat sent some of his senior advisers to Baghdad last month, when they made arrangement for a potential evacuation of the Palestinian leadership.
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