(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - Arafat pumped millions of dollars into the Aksa Martyrs Brigades even as he let his security forces go without pay for months, according to Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East, a new book by Matt Rees, the Time Magazine bureau chief in Jerusalem. Rees reveals the inside story of Arafat's divisive, self-destructive rule, detailing how the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, ruled Palestinian towns like gangsters in defiance of security officials who gradually learned they didn't have Arafat's backing.
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