U.S. official protected by Muslim terrorists

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | October 29, 2007 | Aaron Klein

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JERUSALEM – Senior terrorists, including the chiefs of the most active West Bank terror organization, were part of an official Palestinian security team that protected a prominent U.S. envoy last week, WND has learned.

Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, U.S. security coordinator for the Palestinian territories, this past Thursday toured the northern West Bank city of Nablus, where he expressed support for a plan to achieve security independence for the Palestinians in the city.

Nablus is the stronghold of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the declared military wing of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization. The Brigades took credit along with the Islamic Jihad terror group for every suicide bombing in Israel between 2005 and 2006.

In Nablus, Dayton met with Fatah security chiefs about a test they are planning to attempt to achieve law and order in the city.

"I'm here to show American support for this operation," Dayton told reporters. "I work very carefully with the Palestinian security forces, and I must tell you that I have very high regard for the Palestinian security forces."

"This is where the Palestinian state will get its first real test," Dayton said.

Dayton arrived in Nablus in an armored vehicle and was accompanied at all times by three American bodyguards, according to Palestinian security officials present.

The officials told WND they deployed three rings of Palestinian security officers around Dayton. The third ring, they said, consisted of about 200 Fatah security officers who encircled the vicinity Dayton was visiting.

WND has learned among those encircling Dayton as official members of the Palestinian security forces were Nablus' senior leadership of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, including Ala Sekakreh, the Brigades' West Bank chief, and Nasser Abu Aziz, no. 2 of the Brigades in the West Bank.