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October 3, 2000
AMMAN, OCT 2 (UNB/AP) - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat arrived in Jordan on Monday for talks with King Abdullah II as bloody clashes swept across the Palestinian territories and spilled over to Israel. Arafat flew into Amman's hilltop Raghadan Palace by helicopter and immediately went into a closed-door meeting with Abdullah. The media were banned access to the palace. But Omar Khatib, Arafat's representative in Jordan, said the Palestinian leader would "brief his majesty the king on the dangerous developments in the Palestinian territories." "The focus of the two-hour visit is Israel's tenacity and arrogance and the massacres which are committed by Israeli troops against innocent Palestinian civilians and children," Khatib told The Associated Press. Arafat held similar talks Sunday with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Jordan and Egypt are the only two Arab countries at peace with Israel. Thirty-three people have been killed in four days of violence triggered by a visit last week by Israeli hard-line opposition leader Ariel Sharon to a contested Jerusalem shrine, known to Muslims as Haram as-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, and to Jews as the Temple Mount.
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