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Palestinian official visits Jenin, Arrests Al Aqsa gunnies
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Three militants of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades fired into the air Tuesday while Palestinian Authority Interior Minister Nasser Youssef visited a government building in Jenin, a security source told CNN. Youssef, who was inspecting troops, continued with his visit and ordered security forces to arrest the three, including Zacharia Zebeideh, the Al Aqsa chief in Jenin.
 The Associated Press reported that about 600 armed Palestinian police officers flooded the area quickly and took up positions inside the building. "We are not leaving Jenin before we have arrested this bunch of criminals," Yousef told Hajj Ismail Jaber, the head of national security forces in the West Bank, according to an Associated Press reporter in the local government headquarters with Yousef. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told a conference in London Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority had made a decision to unify all the Palestinian security forces. While Abbas gave no details, Palestinian officials have said the security organizations will answer to the interior minister, who in turn, answers to Abbas. The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is a military offshoot of the Fatah movement and has attacked military and civilian targets in Israel and in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. The U.S. State Department considers it a foreign terrorist organization. Posted by: Steve 2005-03-01 |
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