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Israel Captures Terrorist Who Was Leading Abbas's Anti-Terrorism Forces

A little old, but a good illustration. Sometimes Abbas's troops simply pass on their US weapons and EU money to Hamas terrorists. Other times Hamas just hijacks the damn delivery trucks. Then there are the times when Fatah troops cut Hamas out of the loop and do it themselves:

A long-wanted terrorist chief captured this week by Israeli forces was trained by the U.S., served in a senior capacity on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s U.S.-backed security detail, and was a ranking member of a team that received and distributed American arms shipments the past two years... Khaled Shawish, an officer in Abbas’s Force 17 presidential guards, was arrested Sunday by undercover Israeli police forces following scores of shooting attacks Shawish is suspected of carrying out. Shawish doubles as Ramallah chief of the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades terror group. He previously boasted of involvement in a West Bank shooting attack in December 2000 that killed Israeli nationalist leader Benjamin Kahane and Kahane’s wife, Talya... Shawish also directed a number of suicide bombings that killed eight Israelis.

It's always been such a deep, dark mystery to us why Abbas's troops were unable to get terrorists to stop operating in Ramallah. US diplomats claimed that there was no easy answer - that complicated dynamics linked civilians with terrorist enablers with terrorists. Looks like there was an easy answer after all. And just when you think things can't get any better:

According to Israeli and Palestinian security sources, Shawish, as a member of Force 17, received U.S. training in 1997 at an American-managed military base in the West Bank city of Jericho. The base continues to train Force 17 members. Many other Brigades members who also double as Force 17 officers have received U.S. training.

We are beginning to suspect that maybe training, funding, and arming resentful, propaganda-infused anti-Semites is a bad idea. This proposition will obviously require more study.

References:
* New Way Fatah Weapons Get To Hamas: They Hijack the Damn Trucks [MR]
* US Government To Give Palestinian Terrorists Cutting-Edge Weapons [MR]
* Terror Chief Nabbed By Israel Received U.S. Training, Arms [Jewish Press]

Previously:
* Hamas Celebrates Unity Government, Diplomatic Thaw With Brazen Terrorism Against Israelis
* LA Times Gives Traitor Azmi Bishara An Op-Ed To Lie About His Treason
* Foreign Aid To Palestinians Has Increased By 10 Percent Since Hamas Election

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