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Source: http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/916805.html
U.S. Doubts Ability of PA to Police West Bank
[Ha'aretz] Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel - Gen. Keith Dayton, the U.S. security coordinator in the PA, said recently in private talks that he does not believe Palestinian security forces in the West Bank are capable of enforcing security needs in cities there. Prior to the collapse of Fatah in Gaza in June, Dayton had expressed greater confidence in the forces affiliated with the PA and Fatah. The IDF Military Intelligence Research Division has also presented a document to Israel's political leadership saying that the PA will not be able to assert security control over West Bank cities in the near future. The PA recently informed Israel that it lacks the necessary infrastructure to deploy police officers in Nablus. Also, senior PA officials announced they intend to withdraw their request to allow the Badr Brigade, a Palestinian force in the Jordanian army, to deploy in the West Bank.