Palestinian Authority’s security apparatuses have started distributing roles in a plan to quell the Palestinian Aqsa intifada, according to PA security sources. The plan envisaged entrusting the Marine forces and Force-17 with establishment of roadblocks to arrest those included in the list of wanted persons.
| The Marine forces were involved in the Karine A incident. Force 17 was supposed to be merged into the PA security forces under the Oslo accords, but Yasser kept personal control of it for himself. It was used during the 1980s to carry out hits against Israeli and rival Paleostinian organizations, usually outside Paleostine. |
The preventive security apparatus is to launch the intelligence missions and collecting information on wanted persons while the police force is to subpoena the wanted individuals so as to legalize the arrests.
| Then their "relatives" can show up in large, angy mobs, and spring them, after which nothing will be mentioned... |
They added that the intelligence apparatus would be allocated the violent arrests through kidnapping the wanted persons or breaking into houses even if the measure led to inflicting casualties in the process. Meanwhile, the preventive security apparatus in the Gaza Strip was holding a series of meeting for the past week with the Fatah Movement’s central council in the central area in the Gaza Strip to convince armed elements affiliated with Fatah to halt resistance. The Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah, apparently approved the request and started by halting night patrols in the central areas. |