CIA training PA antiterror force

A team of CIA monitors and advisers on security have arrived in Cairo, and will soon move to the Gaza Strip, senior Palestinian Authority sources told The Jerusalem Post. The team will advise the PA in reorganizing its security, and is part of the team that will monitor both sides' implementation of the road map.

The CIA operatives are training a new PA antiterror force ahead of a possible confrontation with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, according to the sources.

The new force, which consists of several hundred agents, will operate under the direct command of Security Minister Muhammad Dahlan.

PA officials said they are preparing to start implementing their obligations under the road map, soon after a planned meeting between Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas a meeting that could come within 48 hours, according to PA Chairman Yasser Arafat.

Meanwhile, talks between Palestinian factions on suspending terrorist attacks Israel might be resumed in the Gaza Strip and not in Cairo, PA Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said Monday. He said Abbas was awaiting a response from Hamas to his demand that the movement accept a temporary cessation of terrorist attacks now that Sharon's cabinet has accepted the road map.

Abbas met in Gaza City last Thursday with several leaders of Hamas and urged them to agree to a one-year cessation of terrorist attacks. But the Hamas officials, including Abdel Aziz Rantisi, Mahmoud Zahar, and Ismail Haniyeh, vowed to continue attacks against Israel.

Some sources close to Hamas said the movement would consider the offer only if Israel agrees to stop assassinations, withdraw from Palestinian cities and villages, and release all prisoners. "Hamas knows that what's required is a full cease-fire and not a conditional one," Shaath said. "We don't want to give Israel any excuse."

He expressed optimism that all the Palestinian factions would agree to a cease-fire once Israel stops all military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He said the PA would not try to disarm any group or individual "as long as Israeli tanks are besieging our cities. Israel wants us to confiscate the weapons of the resistance while it is surrounding our cities and repressing our people. This will not happen."

Abbas reportedly met Monday with former West Bank Preventive Security Service chief Jibril Rajoub, trying to convince him to cooperate with him regarding security in the West Bank, said PA sources close to the two.

Abbas apparently wants Rajoub to work as his adviser for the West Bank, so that he does not have to work under Dahlan.

While Dahlan has begun to reorganize the security forces in the Gaza Strip, there is still chaos within the security forces in the West Bank, and Dahlan faces a lot of opposition from members of Fatah and Arafat loyalists there.

To implement security in the West Bank, Abbas needs Rajoub's help, a Fatah source said, but added that it was very unlikely that Rajoub would work with Dahlan.

Rajoub was angered by Dahlan when the later accused him of surrendering to the IDF during Operation Defensive Shield. Rajoub agreed to a US-brokered compromise, by which his men were allowed to leave his Ramallah compound, which was surrounded by the IDF.

"Whether Rajoub will agree to join forces with Abbas will largely depend on whether Abbas can offer him some independent position," a senior PA official said.

Rajoub has said he does not want to work in security in the present situation, but he might consider it once there is some progress on the implementation of the road map, the official said. In any case, Rajoub, who recently underwent stomach surgery in the UK, will leave PA-controlled areas again on Tuesday and it is unlikely he will make a decision before the upcoming meetings between Sharon and Abbas, and the planned summit among US President George W. Bush, Sharon, and Abbas in June, PA sources said.

There are rumors that Arafat is also trying to bring Rajoub back under his own control, a Fatah source said. He wants to move the Preventive Security Service from the Interior Ministry to his own control, a Fatah source said.

An adviser to Arafat denied this. "There was a decision that the Military Intelligence of Moussa Arafat would coordinate its work with Preventive Security, as part of the reorganization of the security," he said. Military intelligence is under Arafat's control.

Israel will consider handing over any part of the Gaza Strip to the control of PA security services if they prove their willingness to combat terror, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told Israeli military reporters in a briefing in Ankara on Monday. An example of this, Mofaz said, could be the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanun, where troops are currently operating.

"We could hand it over to them and see how determined they are," said Mofaz. "It's not a question of capability, but leadership and determination."

Mofaz said he would not support handing over any areas in which failure to act will endanger the lives of Israeli citizens.

He added that Sharon had already informed the PA that he would be willing to hand over territory to Palestinian security control in order to test the PA's terror-fighting resolve.

Almost all the action you see from the CIA is done by guys from the military. 99%. When I was a pup in SF the older guy said never trust the agency, buch of brown nosing back stabbers.

Anyways check this load of pantwaste from their own web site.

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Updated: 04/02/2003 19:48:46.

I wouldn't worry.

I think there is a lot more going on.

I know a lot of people don't believe Debka, but I think they may have a few points.

http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=494

Sharon was offered three main incentives:

First – America’s systematic disarmament of Israel’s most dangerous enemies has been built into the Bush master-plan – Iraq first; shortly, an attempt to dissolve Iran’s nuclear weapons option (see separate article on this page), followed by steps to eliminate Syria’s missile systems and weapons of mass destruction and the Hizballah’s military capabilities. In the long term, Washington will almost certainly aim at cutting short the development of Egyptian and Libyan N-bombs.

The United States is sweeping all these threats from its borders without Israel needing to deploy a single soldier or fire a single shot. For this saving of Israeli military life and limb, no words can do ample justice. Without any expenditure of its own military and economic resources, Israel may find itself in three or four years liberated from all its next-door enemies for the first time in its history.

Second – The prospect of Yasser Arafat’s eclipse on the international and Palestinian stage. The United States has acquired a new partner for the job of tightening the noose of isolation around the terror master’s neck – Saudi Arabia. (More about this below)

When US secretary of state Colin Powell announced Friday, May 23, that a team of American “coordinators”, would be arriving in Jerusalem within a few days, he was speaking euphemistically. This team will be the nucleus of an interim administration to manage Palestinian areas where the Palestinian Authority’s administraton has been shattered by its terror orientation. This body will resemble the US-British team provisionally administering Iraq, for which Washington expects to eventually gain a similar UN mandate. One outcome of this mandate will be to eliminate the European mark on the Israel-Palestinian peace process and the Palestinians’ future. This will be in keeping with Israel’s consistent rejection of the Palestinian demand for an international commission to monitor the Palestinian-Israeli peace. The only mediating or monitoring party Israel has ever accepted is the United States. The Europeans and UN are accused of pro-Palestinian, pro-Arab bias.

This plan of action was made possible by the revolutionary changes overtaking Riyadh in the last few days on the heels of the al Qaeda assaults on the Saudi capital. These changes were first revealed in detail in the latest issue of DEBKA-Net-Weekly. Crown Prince Abdullah was sufficiently jolted by the terrorist strikes on his doorstep to stand up and order epic, almost unthinkable, reforms in government, overseas financing, security and relations between throne and mosque.

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