Bombing May Be the Beginning of Abbas's End

(Jerusalem Post) Arieh O'Sullivan - About a week ago, Islamic Jihad militants in the Gaza Strip parked a bicycle bomb near the headquarters of PA Security Minister Mohammed Dahlan in Jebaliya, where it exploded prematurely causing little damage. Dahlan quickly dispatched masked officers from his Preventative Security Service who stormed the house of the Islamic Jihad men, killing two on the spot and carting off three others to prison. This shows that Dahlan knows how to act and lends credence to those in the defense establishment who believe that Dahlan could if he wanted to, but doesn't want to.


2003-08-21 00:00:00

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