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| Middle East |
| Arafat to replace Yehiyeh with Tanzim thug... |
| 2002-10-16 |
| Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat (1929-2002?) announced on Wednesday his plans for a new shakedown in the PA's Cabinet. Committee members were quoted by the report as saying Arafat was intending to fire PA Interior Minister Abdel Razek Yahya, following pressure by prominent Fatah officials, after Yahya failed to reorganize the PA's different security mechanisms. More likely because he could see the stupidity of the suicide campaign and he turned out not to be quite the figurehead Yasser wanted... Yahya, reports said, will be replaced by Hanni al-Hasan, the head of Tanzim in the West Bank, committee members said. Barghouti'd be the man for the job, but he's otherwise engaged at the moment... Other ministers in Arafat's cabinet, among them Finance Minister Salaam Fayad, Saeb Erekat and Nabil Sha'ath, will remain in power, the report said. A nonentity and two spear carriers — their careers and Swiss bank accounts are safe. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |