The SF Chronicle looks at what happened to Palestinian security personnel who enrolled in a 1998 CIA counter-terror and firearms course. The class of 98’s ignoble alumni include Raafat Bajali (a member of Al-Aqsa Brigades–killed when a bomb he was working on blew up), Nedal Zedok (an Al-Aqsa Brigade colleague of Bajali–killed in the same “work accident”), and Khaled Abu Nijmeh (a Church of the Nativity fugitive given asylum in Italy–the PA is negotiating repatriation). The new PA security services will likely get US training again.
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