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The CIA's unwelcome mission
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| 22 August 2002 |
One of the greatest ironies of the latest Palestinian intifada is that a considerable number of those attacking the Israelis have been members of Yasser Arafat's security forces who were trained by the CIA, at Israeli insistence, to stamp out the very Islamic militants they joined soon after the uprising erupted in late September 2000.
Then, a year ago, US President George W Bush pulled the CIA out of its mission to build up Arafat's security apparatus, aimed at eliminating Hamas and Islamic Jihad, when it became clear the Palestinian leader was unable – or unwilling – to fulfil that unstated objective.
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