DEBKAfile Exclusive: Outrage in Israel over Mahmoud Abbas’ choice of Mahmoud Dimra – Abu Awad – to lead his new private US-UK-funded militiaMay 31, 2006, 8:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report that Abu Awad is number 5 on the Shin Bet’s list of most wanted terrorists from the 2000-2005 Palestinian terror war against Israel. Dimra served as Yasser Arafat’s undercover coordinator for the suicide terror campaign waged by the Fatah-al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and which is still operating unchecked by the Fatah leader, the same Mahmoud Abbas.
After the Israeli government made the gesture of allowing his force to take delivery of 200 rifles, security leaders say Abu Mazen has pulled a fast one. He has arranged for those guns to come under the responsibility of a known arch-terrorist, breaking his personal word to Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert that the weapons would be used exclusively for his own protection and not be allowed to reach terrorist hands.
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