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PA Stops Funding Aksa Martyrs Brigades
(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - At a meeting of the Fatah Central Committee on Sunday chaired by Arafat, Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei said the most important mission now was to guarantee the safety of the Aksa Martyrs Brigades gunmen who are wanted by Israel for carrying out terrorist attacks. Arafat has invited the Fatah gunmen to join the PA security services. Hani Uwaidah, commander of the Aksa Brigades in Tulkarm, said the PA stopped paying his salary a few months ago, which was the main reason why he and his friends had halted their attacks against Israel. The commander of the Aksa Brigades in the Jenin area, Zakariya Zubeidi, accused the members of the Fatah Central Council of trying to sideline the group. "They are trying to stop the funding to us [and]...are putting pressure on us to disband," he said.