Claim contradicts popular Palestinian belief that Israel was responsible for Arafat's death. (Dahlan was a Mossad Agent)
Loyalists of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have accused a rival
of poisoning the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, in an apparent
effort to discredit him politically.
Top officials of Abbas'
Fatah Party issued a report Sunday contending that former Gaza strongman
Mohammed Dahlan sent poison disguised as medicine to Arafat while he
was in a Paris hospital.
They
offered no evidence to back up their claim, other than to say Dahlan
ordered Arafat guards to burn the vials in which the alleged poison was
stored.
The
report also says, without providing evidence, that Dahlan stole $300
million the United States ¬sent the Palestinians to build a security
force.
"There
are false and baseless accusations of Abbas and his people, they are
clearing Israel of Arafat's blood," Dahlan said Monday in a telephone
call from Dubai. "If Abbas spent his time preparing for independence
instead of fighting me, he would have won."
Arafat died in November 2004 under mysterious circumstances in France. Many Palestinians believe Israel poisoned him.
Dahlan
was widely blamed by colleagues for the 2007 loss of Gaza to Fatah's
rivals, the militant Hamas group, when he was the security chief in the
seaside strip. He and Abbas have been feuding for months.
Dahlan
has accused the Palestinian president of being a weak leader and of
allowing his sons to benefit financially from his rule.
Fatah
expelled Dahlan from the party in June because of his repeated
criticism of Abbas, and Palestinian police recently raided his West Bank
home.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/fatah-ex-gaza-strongman-mohammed-dahlan-poisoned-arafat-1.377635
Tuesday 2 April 2013
Fatah: Ex-Gaza strongman Mohammed Dahlan poisoned Arafat
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