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May 4, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/03/AR2005050301447.html

For Abbas, a Crisis of Perception

(Washington Post) Molly Moore and John Ward Anderson - The entryway of the Nablus police headquarters is plastered with posters memorializing dead comrades. In addition to being police officers, most were members of Palestinian militant organizations. In Nablus the policemen on the posters are considered heroes. In Israel, they are considered terrorists. For many Palestinians as well as Israelis, it is often difficult to distinguish between Palestinian militants and Palestinian security officers. "We're part of Fatah - we're already part of the security forces," said a senior Nablus commander in the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Abbas's Fatah political movement.

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