Documents reveal PA-Israel collaboration to target resistance

Report, The Electronic Intifada, 26 January 2011

"Details on the growing security cooperation between the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, the United States and the United Kingdom were revealed yesterday, the third day of Al Jazeera network's release of more than 1,600 internal documents and secret correspondence from the last decade of negotiations between the Israeli government, the Palestinian Authority and the United States.


Al Jazeera also confirmed that the Palestinian Authority was behind -- or assisted Israel in -- extra-judicial executions of high-level political opposition leaders and resistance fighters in the occupied Gaza Strip......

US knew PA forces tortured dissidents

Additionally, more has been revealed in the details of the US's involvement with training, arming and organizing the PA's security forces.As The Electronic Intifada has previously reported, in 2005, US Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton began training security forces loyal to the PA in Jordan. Reporting directly to the US Secretary of State, Dayton's mission was to train Palestinian forces that would cooperate with Israel.In subsequent years, PA security forces were exposed as brutally repressive arms of the PA, whose main aim was to quash dissent ("A prescription for civil war," Jon Elmer, 8 February 2010).The Electronic Intifada has reported extensively on the repressive actions of the PA security forces, trained under Dayton.Al Jazeera's document leak reveals that Dayton had acknowledged systematic torture of Palestinian dissidents by the PA forces he was tasked to train ("Dayton's mission: A readers guide," Mark Perry, 25 January 2011)......

PA forces linked to MI6

The network also exposed documents on Tuesday linking the Palestinian Authority's security forces to the UK's intelligence agency, MI6, as the British agency provided funding for the PA's security forces ("MI6 offered to detain Hamas figures," 25 January 2011)......"