Arafat's (and later Dahlan's) sidekick, Yasir `Abd-Rabbu, is one of the most corrupt, most opportunistic, and most unprincipled Palestinian (I would not call him a leader as he can barely lead his driver and bodyguards) there is. He was (we now know, and he implicity admits that in the long interviews that he has given to the mouthpiece of Prince Khalid Bin Sultan, Al-Hayat) a plant by `Arafat in the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The series of interviews contain many lies but I don't have time to comment on them. But here, he shows his compulsion to lie. He is talking about Arafat's clique's stance when Saddam invaded Kuwait. He says that Arafat and his sidekicks were cynical and skeptical about Saddam's bombastic military claims. That is a blatant lie: those cronies were more excited about Saddam's bombast than Saddam himself. Edward Said told me at the time that `Arafat's sidekick Bassam Abu Sharif (he is a version of `Abd-Rabbu planted in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) was calling Said in New York and telling him about the "miracle" weapons and long-range missiles that Saddam posessed. Said would try to convince those clowns that Saddam will be resoundedly defeated, but they were intoxicated with Saddam's secret arsenal.