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Abbas Rivals Abroad Wary as PA Joins Interpol
(Al-Monitor) Ahmad Abu Amer - The Palestinian Authority, voted in as a full member of Interpol in September, recently completed the technical procedures to connect the Palestinian police force to the Interpol database. With this new status, the Palestinian police have access to information from police agencies around the world and will be able to issue international requests for the detention of wanted individuals for extradition. The step has raised concerns among Abbas' exiled political rivals such as dismissed Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan and others, who fear that the PA might use Interpol to track them down and extradite them. The PA's membership in Interpol is also unnerving Israel, which strongly lobbied against the admission to protect Israeli military and political leaders in European countries.