A PA security official finally confirmed to the Jerusalem Post an open secret: the Palestinian security services were riddled with people affiliated with the very terror groups they were supposed to crack down on. Some even received training from American, European and Arab security experts before using their new skills against Israeli civilians and alleged collaborators:
The majority of the policemen chose to join Fatah’s armed wing, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, while only a few preferred Hamas and Islamic Jihad militias, he added.
“Most of these men doubled as security officers and members of armed groups,” the official admitted. “The fact that they had received paramilitary training as policemen was an asset because they were able to implement the tactics they learned in the fighting with the Israeli army.”
….At least two Fatah gunmen from the West Bank recently admitted that they had been trained for six weeks as bodyguards by American security experts near Washington, DC. The two were later involved in a number of armed attacks against Israel and suspected “collaborators.”
