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PA Sets Up "Central Operations Command" to Restore Law and Order
(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - On Sunday, Arafat convened the National Security Council in Ramallah and instructed the Interior Ministry to set up a "central operations command" that would work to unite all the security forces under one umbrella. A senior PA official explained that the decision means that the security forces would embark on a campaign designed to collect illegal weapons and arrest members of various armed gangs operating in the West Bank and Gaza. "This is an important step towards restoring law and order and ending the chaos of weapons," the official explained. The decision is apparently linked to the visit of two U.S. State Department officials to the region on Tuesday, David Satterfield and John Wolf.