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| PA to factions: Leave collaborators to us |
| 2004-04-28 |
| You gotta love paranoia. All failing ’revolutionary’ organizations consume their own as they fail. The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday warned all Palestinian factions against killing suspected "collaborators" with Israel, saying it was the only party authorized to deal with such people. A senior PA official disclosed that more than 150 Palestinians were being held by the PA on suspicion of collaboration with Israel. He said the majority of the suspects were arrested in the past three years, and that some had confessed to passing on information to Israel that led to the assassination of Palestinian wanted men. The official said the PA was planning to bring some of the suspects to trial before special security tribunals in the next few weeks in an attempt to deter others from assisting the Israeli security forces. The warning not to kill suspected informants came amid increased calls by Hamas and Fatah to crack down on those who assist Israel in tracking down their members. Following the assassinations of Hamas leaders Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the two groups vowed to launch a campaign to "eliminate traitors." The armed wings of Hamas and Fatah announced earlier this week that they have decided to form an "anti-collaborator" hit team to track down and kill Palestinians who have links with the Israeli security forces. Over the past week, at least four alleged collaborators were killed in separate attacks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Two of the killings, in Tulkarm and Beit Rima near Ramallah, were claimed by Fatah’s armed wing, the al-Aksa Martyrs’ Brigades, while Hamas said its members killed another two near the Maghazi refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. The man killed in Beit Rima was identified as Mohammed Husan, 30. Villagers said he was forced to announce through the loudspeakers of a mosque that he had been collaborating with Israel since 1997 and that he was responsible for the killing of wanted men. Less than 24 hours after Husan was executed in the village center, the al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades published a statement announcing that he had been killed by mistake and that he was innocent. The group also sent an apology to the victim’s family, saying a further investigation revealed that he was not a "traitor." Collaborators – a phenomenon that affects the entire Palestinian society Col. Rashid Abu Shabak, head of the PA Preventative Security Service in the Gaza Strip, said Wednesday that the PA was the only party authorized to pursue the collaborators and bring them to trial. "As long as there is a Palestinian Authority that is responsible for internal security, then it must assume its role in fighting against these agents and prosecuting them," he said. Abu Shabak noted that the PA had taken several measures in the past against Palestinians who collaborated with Israel, including the detention of some who allegedly assisted Israel in carrying out targeted killings. "We have caught a number of collaborators whom we believe helped Israel in the recent assassinations of Palestinian leaders," Abu Shabak added. "But for security reasons, we are not planning to make public all the information that we hold. We have arrested a number of collaborators and the investigation is continuing." The PA security official urged all Palestinian factions to provide him with whatever information they have about the identities of collaborators so that the security forces would be able to deal with them. Abu Shabak expressed regret that the other Palestinian factions were not helping the PA security forces in their mission. |
| Posted by:Phil B |
| #4 I'm thinking from the looks of the arafish that a Doctor's Plot is right around the corner. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-04-28 5:48:02 PM |
| #3 Following up to Steve's post... ..." Abu, you have been found guilty of collaborating with the Zionist dogs resulting in the killing of freedom fighters. for this you are sentenced to die horribly in public. Any last words?" "Um... yeah. Do you mean to tell me that because I wanted to adhere to the terms of the Oslo accords, and help rid my people of the terrorist organizations that prevent us from moving into the 21st century, that I'm about to die? In my defense, I demand that we examine the copy of the Oslo accords that our leader brought home!" "Um...yeah...Oslo accords...right. You mean you thought those were for real? Listen, I'd like to oblige you, but after Rantisi took the dirt nap last week, our leader crapped his pants and needed something to clean up with. He didn't want use toilet paper so he grabbed something that was worth even less..." |
| Posted by: Dripping Sarcasm 2004-04-28 1:59:28 PM |
| #2 The official said the PA was planning to bring some of the suspects to trial before special security tribunals in the next few weeks in an attempt to deter others from assisting the Israeli security forces. Heh, the PA's definition of "trial" is quite different from most everybody else's..... |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-04-28 12:03:40 PM |
| #1 Paleo "traitors" = any Palis who oppose a second Holocaust |
| Posted by: Steve from Relto 2004-04-28 11:21:47 AM |