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Matthew Kalman
US training Fatah forces in Jericho, again
US training Fatah in anti-terror tactics
MATTHEW KALMAN
San Francisco Chronicle, 12 December 2006
Jericho, West Bank -- U.S. officials training Palestinian security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas are emphasizing urban anti-terrorist techniques as part of a systematic effort to bolster Abbas and his Fatah loyalists to counter the political success of Hamas, according to Palestinian analysts and officers receiving the training.
But one officer who has received the training says the purpose of the newly beefed-up force is to protect the Palestinian president from assassination.
