A three-member Palestinian Authority committee consisting of Chairman Yasser Arafat, Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and apparently Mohammed Dahlan, the PA's former minister of security, is being formed to oversee PA activities regarding Israel's withdrawal from Gaza.
The committee's final composition and its functions are still being discussed by Arafat and Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, Egypt's minister who is responsible for the Palestinians' situation and their security. The negotiations are taking place simultaneous to discussions over the possibility that Israel will lift the siege of Arafat in the Muqata.
The new committee signifies much greater involvement by the PA - and Arafat, personally - in implementation of the Israeli withdrawal plan. Egyptian elements are still pressing Arafat to grant Dahlan a significant role in the panel, but so far, the chairman has not conceded and the panel's composition, as well as the identity of the next interior minister who will be in charge of the security forces, has not been determined.
Palestinian sources said that Arafat gave "a positive response, in principle," to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak regarding Egypt's security plan for Gaza, but, as opposed to previous reports, the Arafat letter does not include explicit acceptance of the Egyptian demands - that is, reducing the number of PA security forces to three, appointing an interior minister with full authority over the three forces, transfering real powers to the Palestinian premier, and Egypt's training and directly supervising PA security forces operating in Gaza.
link...More conflicts are brewing. Arafat wants to maintain control, as always.
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