New York – Fatah Militant: U.S. Training Was Key to Intifada’s Success.

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    New York – American-run programs that train Fatah militias were instrumental in the “success” of the Palestinian intifada that began in 2000, a senior Fatah militant told The New York Sun.

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    “I do not think that the operations of the Palestinian resistance would have been so successful and would have killed more than one thousand Israelis since 2000 and defeated the Israelis in Gaza without these [American] trainings,” a senior officer of President Abbas’s Force 17 Presidential Guard unit, Abu Yousuf, said.

    America has longstanding training programs at a base in the West Bank city of Jericho for members of Force 17, which serves as de facto police units in the West Bank, and for another major Fatah security force, the Preventative Security Services.[nysun]


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    And Israel supplied the weapons…

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    Hmmm. They needed American training to kill defenseless civilians? Somehow, I think not. If they, in fact, used their training to kill civilians sitting on a bus, then they have nothing to boast about. Any cunning, deranged animal can do that. This idiot is not telling the full truth. He is trying to get a rise out of us, and he succeeded.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    THANK YOU AMERICA
    WE’LL ALL KEEP ON PAYING OUR TAXES TO TO FUND THIS CRAP

    biGwheeel
    biGwheeel
    16 years ago

    …And, still, they were defeated by hamas.