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Former government officials plan to end Iraqi economic plight
The Associated Press
AMMAN, Jordan — In his first public appearance since fleeing Iraq, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law and former right-hand man condemned his longtime chief for bringing misery to the Iraqi people and announced a campaign to topple him.
The threat from Maj. Gen. Hussein Kamel al-Majid, a former defense minister, could be the most serious challenge to Saddam Hussein's rule since the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Al-Majid masterminded Iraq's secret nuclear armament programs in the 1980s and built up the army's elite Republican Guard units, which spearheaded Iraq's 1980-88 war against Iran.
He said he left Iraq because Saddam Hussein was more interested in defying the outside world than bringing about an end to the economic embargo imposed by the United Nations after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. The sanctions have
led to severe shortages of food, medicine and other supplies in Iraq, although the elite, al-Majid said, were not affected.
"We were not being harmed ... in the leadership," he said. "But the people are suffering."
He said he made his criticism plain to other members of Saddam Hussein's inner circle in recent months, but no correction was made.
Kamel al-Majid, at the news conference.
Therefore, "we'll work to overthrow the existing regime ... through political and through military means," he told a news conference at King Hussein's al-Qasr al-Sagheer palace.
Jordanian intelligence officers overpowered and disarmed the agents hours before the major general addressed reporters in Amman, The Mail newspaper said Sunday. It
Al-Majid also said
he was willing to reveal secrets pertaining to Iraq's secret weapons program if it was in the interest of Iraq.
Meanwhile, a British newspaper reported Sunday that two Iraqi agents disguised as journalists were thwarted from killing al-Majid and possibly his brother, Col. Saddam
Maj. Gen. Hussein Kamel al-Majid
former Iraqi defense minister
quoted unidentified senior Jordanian intelligence sources.
500 sccs. The al-Majids traveled from Iraq to Jordan in a convoy with their wives, Raghad and Rana, both daughters of Saddam Hussein. The colonel did not speak at
the news conference.
In Washington, a White House official said al-Majid's news conference underscored the extent of Saddam's isolation.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said "his insider's account of the situation in
irag shows clearly who is responsible for the suffering there."
Asserting that Saddam Hussein had deployed Republican Guard soldiers on every street in Baghdad, al-Majid called on "all officers in the Iraqi army in the Republican Guard
... and all government officials to be prepared for the coming change, which will turn Iraq into something modern."
Iraqi officers "know what this call means," he said, though still referring to Saddam Hussein as president.
Al-Majid said he had established contacts to carry out his plans with officials inside Iraq and with foreign governments, but said there was no dialogue with Washington yet.
"We will establish new and developed relations with the world and get rid of what is shameful and what caused the backwardness of the society," he said.
The White House official would not comment on whether U.S. or U.N. representatives have talked to al-Malid.
The news conference was al-Majid's first public appearance in years out of a military uniform—he wore a dark Western suit, white shirt and tie.
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Violence, criticism mar Israeli-PLO plan
Palestinian killed as Israel agrees to withdrawal terms
The Associated Press
DURA AL-QARA, West Bank — Israel's Cabinet approved an agreement Sunday with the PLO on expanding Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank as two weeks of protests by Jewish settlers turned deadly for the first time.
Witnesses said settlers opened fire on Palestinians who ransacked their camp on a rocky West Bank hilltop, killing 22-year-old Kheir al-Qalssi. Settlers denied they caused his death.
In Jerusalem, the Cabinet approved an agreement under which Israeli soldiers would withdraw from much of the West Bank no later than July 1997. The vote was 15-1, with two ministers abstaining.
Some ministers criticized the pact, worked out last week in 20 hours of meetings between Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. Critics said the agreement would force Israeli troops to withdraw too quickly from the West Bank, occupied since 1967.
Major gaps remained over sharing the West Bank's water and how to provide security for Hebron, where 450 Israeli settlers live among 80,000 Palestinians.
Yossi Sarid, environment minister and outspoken peace negotiator, maintained that the West Bank autonomy was in line with the September 1993 Israel-PLO accord. But he agreed that "although officially there is not going to be a Palestinian state, as far as I can judge the situation, it is a Palestinian state."
Sarid said Israeli and PLO delegations were resuming talks Sunday night in Taba, Egypt, on a detailed accord.
Sunday's shooting was the first serious violence since settlers began their campaign against West Bank autonomy. The settlers, claiming a withdrawal would put them in danger, are demanding a national referendum on any agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Since the protest began, police and soldiers have dragged hundreds of settlers off West Bank hillsides, where they have established makeshift neighborhoods in defiance of both the Palestinians and the Israeli government.
But no troops were in sight when about 100 Palestinians from the nearby village of Dura al-Qara marched up Artis Hill near the Jewish settlement of Beit El early Sunday. Finding most of the settlers gone, about 20 Palestinians, including several women and children, knocked over a tent, hurled rocks at an unfinished cement-block house and burned an Israeli flag and Bible.
A car carrying at least seven settlers then drove up, and several people began firing at the Palestinians, according to an Associated Press Television cameraman at the scene.
Al-Qaissa was shot in the chest and carried off the hill on a rough wooden ladder by other Palestinians. He died shortly afterward at Ramallah Hospital.
Yoav Barak, secretary of Belt El, said one of the settlers fired into the air in self-defense, but denied that the bullets struck anyone.
"Whoever was killed was killed somewhere else," Barak said. "We don't know anything about it."
Police said they could not be certain how al-Qaissa was killed because his body was taken from the hospital before an autopsy could be conducted.
But Natan Kramausky, deputy head of Israeli police in the West Bank, told army radio that it seemed reasonable that the settlers shot al-Qaissa.
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