Jordanian paper: Dahlan plans to abort prisoners' swap deal

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[ 06/02/2010 - 08:25 AM ]


AMMAN, (PIC)-- The Jordanian AL-Haqeeqa Al-Dawleyyah newspaper has quoted Friday a "senior source" as saying that Fatah's media official Mohammed Dahlan plans to abort the prisoners' swap deal between the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) and Hamas Movement.


The source, who preferred not to be identified, revealed that Dahlan had laid down political and media schemes for that purpose, and that part of the plan was to launch a smear campaign against Hamas Movement in addition to portraying the deal as a deportation deal and not a swap deal.

The source further revealed that the PA leadership in Ramallah urged the IOA to exclude the names of Marwan Al-Barghouthi, Fatah's strong man, and Ahmad Sa'adat, the secretary general of the PFLP, from the list of released prisoners in order to avert the popular support for the deal, which he described as national par excellence because it comprises prisoners from all Palestinian factions and not only from Hamas.


He added that both Mahmoud Abbas and Dahlan wants Barghouthi to be freed in a separate deal in a bid to deny him any popular support thus terminating his political career in favor of the duo, explaining that the Arab and Palestinian street would question the reason behind his release in case it happened outside Hamas's deal.

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