"Ramallah - The Hebrew Haaretz newspaper quoted Palestinian sources as revealing that PA chief Mahmoud Abbas has offered Mohammed Dahalan, the former chief of the infamous PA preventive security, to be the PA advisor on national security.
Former PA chief, Yasser Arafat, who knows Dahalan very well, refused to appoint him to that position despite repeated appeals from Dahalan to have him in that post.
The sources furthermore added that some of security authorities in the PA had already been transferred to Dahalan although he was not officially appointed to the post yet.
Part of Dahalan's mission, according to the sources, will be to coordinate with Israeli security apparatuses in security matters, which the man had mastered over the past decade.
Recently, Dahalan was seen with Abbas on many occasions, which indicate that relations between the two guys thawed as he was seen receiving Arab and foreign officials, including US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, and EU foreign policy coordinator Javier Solana among other officials, with Abbas in Ramallah city.
In the same context, Abbas appointed Yasser Abed Rabbo as secretary of the PLO's executive committee, which majority of the Palestinian people disrespects being legally illegitimate.
MP Khaleda Jarrar of the PFLP and member of the committee expressed surprise over the appointment, affirming that Abbas had accidentally mentioned such appointment verbally during the committee's meeting a couple of days ago.
"He said that (appointment of Abed Rabbo) verbally during the session but none has commented believing that it was an accidental phrase", she noted.
Abed Rabbo confirmed his appointment as secretary of the committee; but Jarrar asserted that if the appointment was true, then it will be clear circumvention of the Cairo understandings between Palestinian factions urging the restructuring of the PLO and its committees on new basis."
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