STATE DEPARTMENT ARMS TERRORISTS -- AGAIN

THIS IS PURE MADNESS.

Oct 13, Jerusalem (Dafka) - Just one week ago, on Oct. 6, The Evening Bulletin broke the story that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, during her Middle East sojourn, had met with and encouraged the Fatah, which sponsors the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, defined by Rice's own U.S. State Department in its annual report as one of the "terrorist groups in this region", listed as: "The Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades (Fatah's militant wing)."

Now it can be confirmed that Rice not only met with and encouraged Fatah, which continues to operate the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade, but she offered to arm the Fatah.

The New York Times reported that the U.S. proposed expanding Abbas' Force 17 from 3,500 men to 6,000 as part of a $26-million plan to strengthen the Palestinian leader, while the Associated Press and Yediot Ahronot, Israel's leading daily newspaper, also reported that new training facilities for Force 17 are slated to be set up in the West Bank town of Jericho and in Gaza, at a cost of $2 million each, according to the U.S. proposal.

Abu Yousuf, an officer in the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade, said in an interview with journalist Aaron Klein, the bureau chief of the on World Net Daily online news service, that the U.S. is planning to transfer weapons and aid to Force 17, which protects Abbas and also serves as a special security force on behalf of the Fatah party, adding that "There is a chance that Israel will attack the Palestinian territories, and in this case, these weapons and others provided (by the U.S. to Force 17) will be directed towards the (Israeli) occupation."

Continued Abu Yousuf, "They (Americans) hope that these arms will be used against our brothers in Hamas, but we ask Allah that our brothers are also aware of this issue and will not play into the hands of the Americans and the Israelis.... These weapons will not be used in an internal war but against Israelis," he said.


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