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Palestinian Security Services Stockpile Weapons "for War for Arafat's Job"


(Ha'aretz) Gideon Alon - "There are preparations in the Palestinian Authority for the war for Chairman Arafat's job as a result of Yasser Arafat's ailment, and part of those preparations include the stockpiling of weapons by the various security services ahead of an armed clash between them," Chief of Military Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Aharon Ze'evi told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tuesday. Military intelligence believes Arafat is "seriously ill." Ze'evi predicted Ahmed Qurei's term would come to an end on November 4, and that PA Finance Minister Salam Fayad would quit with Qurei. Ze'evi said that, from the Palestinian perspective, the "Geneva understandings" were signed by "very marginal" figures from Palestinian politics, and it has not reverberated through Palestinian society.
2003-10-22 00:00:00
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