Monday, March 3, 2008

Vanity Fair: Abbas, Dahlan conspired with Israel, US, to topple Hamas

From Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah

"The famous American magazine Vanity Fair has publishing a meticulously-researched expose showing that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, his aide Muhammed Dahlan actively conspired with the Bush administration to topple the democratically-elected government of Hamas and engineer civil war in the occupied Palestinian territories.

In a lengthy article in the magazine’s latest issue, Vanity Fair said it obtained “confidential documents” corroborated by sources in the US and Palestine, which lay bare a covert American operation, approved by the President Bush and implemented by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams, to provoke a Palestinian civil war

According to the magazine, the plan was for forces led by Dahlan and armed with new weapons supplied at America’s behest, to give Fatah the muscle it needed to remove the democratically elected Hamas-led government from power....."

Scroll down two posts to read the Vanity Fair article by David Rose.

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