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Israel Wants U.S. to Guarantee that Terror Groups Disarm
(Ha'aretz) - Aluf Benn, Amos Harel, Nathan Guttman, and Arnon Regular Israel will ask National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, who arrives in Jerusalem this weekend, for U.S. guarantees that the PA will dismantle the terrorist infrastructure in areas where it assumes security authority - as it is obligated to do under the road map peace plan - rather than settling for an agreement with the terrorist organizations on a cessation of attacks. PA Security Minister Mohammed Dahlan has said that the PA would act in its own way to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure. "Dahlan's plan is a truce and nothing else," a senior security official said Thursday. "He told us explicitly that he has no intention of arresting activists or disarming the terrorist organizations." Hamas sources said Thursday that the group will formally announce a truce in the next two days, but so far, despite the truce talks, there has been no letup in the pace of attempted attacks. The lion's share of the recent attacks, both successful and unsuccessful, have been carried out by members of Fatah, the party headed by Abbas and Arafat.