This is Mohammed Dahlan

from JVL

... Dahlan was arrested eleven times by the Israelis.. between the years 1981 - 1986. ... In 1988, he was deported to Jordan ...and won Yasser Arafat’s confidence. Dahlan returned to Gaza in 1994. Upon his return to Gaza in 1994, he enjoyed a wave of popular support...

... In March 2007, despite objections from Hamas, (Mohammed) Dahlan was appointed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to lead the newly re-established Palestinian National Security Council, overseeing all security forces in the Palestinian territories. Dahlan organized paramilitary units of several thousand fighters trained with American assistance, and lobbied Israel to allow Fatah forces in Gaza to receive large shipments of arms and ammunition to fight Hamas.

In the April 2008 edition of Vanity Fair, it was revealed that after the 2006 elections Dahlan had been central in a U.S. plot to remove the democratically elected Hamas-led government from power. The Americans provided money and arms to Dahlan, trained his men and ordered him to carry out a military coup against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. However, the elected Hamas government forestalled the move and carried out an armed counter-coup...

 In October 2007, the Bush administration reportedly exerted heavy pressure on Abbas to appoint Dahlan as his deputy. Some Fatah officials said that the U.S. and some EU countries had made it clear they would like to see Dahlan succeed Abbas as head of the PA...

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