PA president reveals internal coup attempt

Mohamed DahlanThe president of the Palestinian Authority has revealed that an internal coup attempt was to have been carried out by political rivals from his own Fatah movement. A long list of well-known names is among the suspects, including Fatah leaders. The list includes Mahmoud Abbas’s former Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and Fatah rebel Mohamed Dahlan.

Observers said that Abbas’s dispute with Dahlan is well known, but the surprise is the involvement of Fayyad. The Western favourite has criticised the PA and its less than serious efforts to fight corruption in his meetings with representatives of donor EU countries.

Local Palestinian media reported sources in the leadership saying that Israel had disclosed the plan for a new conspiracy against the PA president. According to the Israelis, members of the Fatah Central Committee and PLO Executive, as well as Fayyad, are involved in the plan. It is believed that the PA’s chief of civilian coordination between the PA and Israel, Hussein Al-Sheikh, received the information from Israel and passed it to Abbas.

The PA chief ordered security services to put all of the people accused of being involved in the attempt under strict scrutiny; their telephone, mobile and computer communications are under surveillance, as are their bank accounts.

Sources expected that the list of people to be scrutinised might have included former intelligence chief Tawfiq Al-Tirawi and member of the PLO Executive Committee Yasser Abed-Rabbo. The sources also felt that they might have contacts with Fatah leader Marwan al-Barghouti, who is a prisoner of the Israelis.

It is of interest to note that the Israeli occupation authorities claimed last week that 93 Hamas members were planning a coup attempt. The Islamic movement denied the Israeli claim.

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