John Walsh, renowned crime fighter and host of \"America\'s Most Wanted\" television show, sounded off against Yasser Arafat on CNN’s Larry King Live today. \"He should be dead,\" Walsh said about the PLO leader, noting that he is \"a thug and a coward\" and says totally different things to English-speaking and Arabic-speaking audiences. The TV personality said he would be willing to devote an entire show to this topic.
Excerpts from Walsh\'s comments:
“After September 11, the White House asked me to profile the world’s most wanted terrorists, so I traveled to the Persian Gulf… When I was there, I saw what Yasser Arafat was saying on television in Arabic - they gave me an interpreter... I would watch Arafat on Al-Jazeera and on Egyptian TV [and also on CNN]. He would say one thing to CNN, and act like a victim and say that the Israelis are doing stuff - but meanwhile he\'s sending suicide bombers. I mean, if those bombers were going into Nate ‘n Al’s in Beverly Hills or into Starbucks and blowing up your mother or wife or your children - you would be after Arafat. Then he\'d turn right around on Al-Jazeera and he\'d say, \'The suicide bombers are with Allah, and they are heroes; Drive the Israelis and the Jews into the ocean; Kill every Jew; Let\'s get back all of Israel…\' He would say that the Americans are the bullies of the world, they support Israel… And then in his [Ramallah] compound over there, when there\'s a mile of evidence as high as the Empire State Building that he has been a murderer and a terrorist - he\'s harboring two guys in there, in that room with him, who killed an Israeli [Minister], and they should be turned over the Israelis to be tried… He\'s a thug, Larry - a thug and a coward.\" King said dryly, \"Other than that, you have no opinion of him...\" Walsh said, \"No, just that he should be dead.\"
Excerpts from Walsh\'s comments:
“After September 11, the White House asked me to profile the world’s most wanted terrorists, so I traveled to the Persian Gulf… When I was there, I saw what Yasser Arafat was saying on television in Arabic - they gave me an interpreter... I would watch Arafat on Al-Jazeera and on Egyptian TV [and also on CNN]. He would say one thing to CNN, and act like a victim and say that the Israelis are doing stuff - but meanwhile he\'s sending suicide bombers. I mean, if those bombers were going into Nate ‘n Al’s in Beverly Hills or into Starbucks and blowing up your mother or wife or your children - you would be after Arafat. Then he\'d turn right around on Al-Jazeera and he\'d say, \'The suicide bombers are with Allah, and they are heroes; Drive the Israelis and the Jews into the ocean; Kill every Jew; Let\'s get back all of Israel…\' He would say that the Americans are the bullies of the world, they support Israel… And then in his [Ramallah] compound over there, when there\'s a mile of evidence as high as the Empire State Building that he has been a murderer and a terrorist - he\'s harboring two guys in there, in that room with him, who killed an Israeli [Minister], and they should be turned over the Israelis to be tried… He\'s a thug, Larry - a thug and a coward.\" King said dryly, \"Other than that, you have no opinion of him...\" Walsh said, \"No, just that he should be dead.\"