The CIA and Fatah

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From Atlantic Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times

by Mike Whitney

When Hamas gunmen stormed the Fatah security compounds in Gaza last
week they found huge supplies of American-made weaponry including
7,400 M-16 assault rifles, dozens of mounted machine guns, rocket
launchers, 7 armored military jeeps, 800,000 rounds of bullets and 18
US-made armored personnel carriers. They also discovered something far
more valuable â CIA files which purportedly contain information about
the collaboration between Fatah and the Israeli and American security
organizations; CIA methods on how to prevent attacks, chase and follow
after cells of Hamas and the Committees; plans about Fatah
assassinations of members of Hamas and other organizations; and
American studies on the security situation in Gaza. (Aaron Klein,
WorldNetDaily.com (http://worldnetdaily.com/))

If the documents prove to be authentic, they will confirm what many
critics of Fatah believed from the beginning; that US-Israeli
intelligence agencies have been collaborating with high-ranking
members of the PA to help crush the Palestinian national liberation
movement. The information could be disastrous for Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas and his newly-appointed "emergency
government". It could destroy their credibility before they even take
office.

The extent of Fatah's cooperation with the CIA is still unknown, but
an article in The New York Sun, ("Hamas Takes over Gaza Security
Services" 6-15-07) suggests that the two groups may have been working
together closely. Former Middle East CIA operations officer Robert
Baer, who was interviewed in the article, said that the discovery of
the documents was "a major blow to Fatah" and will show "a record of
training, spying on Hamas".

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