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Arafat's Police Trained & Collaborating With CIA

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ARAFAT'S POLICE TRAINED AND COLLABORATING WITH CIA

MER - Washington - 6/17/97:

Last year MER first carried information about the increasingly close CIA, Shinbet, and Mossad connections with Yasser Arafat's "Palestinian Authority".

There is no free lunch; and when Arafat agreed to take arms and funding from the Americans and the Israelis -- to in effect become the sub-occupier of the Palestinian people -- intelligence cooperation was one of the prices for this arrangement.

Various things flow from such deals. The assassination in Gaza by the Israelis of Yehya Ayyash, "The Engineer" was one of the more visible results. The ongoing round-up of Hamas cells in the occupied territories is of course another direct manifestation of this collabor ation.

New information is gradually leaking out about the extensive CIA connection with Arafat and the "Authority".

There seems to be a special arrangement to train Arafat's personal "Force 17" people in the U.S. This training is carried out at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia; at the CIA "farm" in southern Virginia; and in Philadelphia with the assistance of the local police force there.

The notorious Colonel Jabril Rajoub -- described as a "ruthless thug" by some who know him and considered a possible successor to Arafat should he be assassinated -- is said to be directly involved in this training and has personally visited CIA Headquarters and other intelligence officials in Washington.

Since the training and collaboration began a few years ago American intelligence agents have established close working relations with "PA" police in the autonomous Palestinian areas that have come under their control.

Though there is no direct evidence at this time of actual complicity on an operational level, the American agents are said to be well aware of the "PA" policies of torturing and sometimes executing opponents along with the ever-increasing repression the "Palestinian police" have brought to the occupied territories on behalf of the Israelis and their American allies.

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