The government now says that Yassar Arafat was responsible for the deaths of two American diplomats back in 1973. It took them a long time to figure out that Arafat was a murderous thug, something most everyone realized over 30 years ago. Our State Department overlooks a lot. The current President of Iran is also a thug who committed acts of war against the United States. I guess the State Department is willing to overlook that also. President Bush seems to recognize the thugs; maybe that's why the career State Department bureaucracy doesn't like him.