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Palestinian Police Struggle in Militant Hotbed
(AP-Washington Post) Isabel Debre - Palestinian police have stepped up a campaign to restore order in the West Bank city of Jenin, long a bastion of crime adjacent to the militarized Jenin refugee camp. Palestinian authorities have deployed 1,000 new security officers from Mahmoud Abbas' presidential guard across the city and have set up checkpoints to catch criminals. Militants are lying low, rather than shooting in the air and showing off their M-16s in the streets. Police say they've seized scores of stolen cars, confiscated hundreds of narcotic pills, and arrested 364 criminals, including over a dozen wanted in cold murder cases. Authorities are preparing to inaugurate a local prison. But the law-and-order campaign does not extend to the Jenin refugee camp.