Item ELUSIVE PEACE 5/2 - Transcript of interview, 2003, with Alastair Crooke, security adviser to the EU

Typescript transcript of rolls 150-152 of a filmed interview with Alastair Crooke, former British Security Adviser to the European Union High Representative and Head of Foreign and Security Policy, describing the Nabka Day demonstrations, Gaza, May 2000; Palestinian security measures put in place for the visit of Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel 2001-2006, to the Temple Mount, surprise at the outbreak of violence during the visit, the evidence presented the Mitchell Committee regarding the incident and the organisation of the subsequent intifada, Sept 2000; visits to prisoners with aim of assuring the Israeli government that the Palestinian authorities were fulfilling their commitment to arrest certain individuals, including Raid Karmi, leading member of Al-Aqsa Brigade, Sept 2001; participation in negotiations to end the siege of the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, and accompanying exiled Palestinians from the siege to Cyprus, Apr-May 2002; negotiations with Fatah and Tanzeem, 2002.