Tuesday, April 23, 2002

In All Corners of Ramallah, Big Footprints of Israel Army
At his destroyed hilltop headquarters, Jibril Rajoub, the Palestinian security chief in the West Bank, promised that he would rebuild his shattered Preventive Security Service. He declined to say how many of his agents had been arrested or killed during the Israeli operation.

"Destroying a building doesn't mean we have been destroyed," he said. "We will rehabilitate, we will repair, we will resume operations as soon as possible."

An unknown number of Palestinian police officers and security men were either detained or killed in the fighting with the Israelis, and policemen have yet to reappear on the streets of Ramallah.

Mr. Rajoub did not give any sign that his forces were now prepared to help block suicide bombers. After the heavy Palestinian losses of the last three weeks, Mr. Rajoub said: "I don't think that security coordination or bilateral relations with the Israelis is on our agenda right now." One of the security officers in the building added: "The Israelis will be the losers from this. Israeli security is in our hands."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/23/international/middleeast/23SECU.html

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