OCCUPIED TERRITORIES

Al-Jazeera: ‘Road map’ is dead, says Arafat

Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat has said the US-backed plan to create a
Palestinian state and foster peace was dead because of Israeli
aggression.
"The road map is dead, but only because of Israeli military aggression
in recent weeks," he said in an interview with CNN in the West Bank town
of Ramallah on Tuesday. Arafat said the United States had let the plan
die. He blamed US preoccupation with Iraq and upcoming presidential
elections for preventing implementation of the “road map”.