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PA Forces to Get Flak Jackets

[Reuters] Adam Entous - Israel has agreed to allow the U.S. to supply flak jackets to Palestinian security forces, but not the heavier-duty body armor that the Palestinians and some American advisers had sought. "They're getting the same flak jackets that police get in the United States," said a Western official involved in the program. A year-and-a-half-long tug-of-war over flak jackets underscores skepticism in Israel's defense establishment about the multimillion-dollar U.S. training program for Abbas' men. "You have to understand, we've been burned before," said Danny Ayalon, Israel's former ambassador to the U.S. Yoni Fighel, a former army colonel who served as governor of Ramallah and Jenin in the early 1990s, said, "You build up trust and personal connections and then, one day, you find yourself being shot at."
2008-08-14 01:00:00
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