Arafat Under Fire

From the Aug. 02, 2004 issue of TIME magazine
    "After four years of violence that shows no signs of ending, opposition to Arafat is spreading to the street.  A leading Arafat critic, former Minister Nabil Amr, [see pic in article above] was shot in the leg by a gunman last week; reformers took it as at least a warning from Arafat loyalists...

    "The man behind the Fatah protests in Gaza is Mohammed Dahlan, the former head of Arafat's Preventive Security Service there.

He is taking advantage of a long-simmering perception among Fatah chiefs that Arafat has no intention of getting the Palestinians out of their present diplomatic dead end, even as the prospects for a Palestinian state seem ever more distant.  "We warned Arafat two years ago to clean his house," says a senior Fatah official.  The official says Arafat is in no immediate danger of being ousted, but the escalating campaign against him could be laying the foundation for someone to edge him aside." [bold emphasis added]

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