Dahlan plans to abort prisoners' swap deal
06-02-2010,10:55
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Al Qassam Website/Agencies - 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 Zionist
occupation authority (ZOA) 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 ZOA
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.