U.S. gives flak jackets to terrorist-saturated forces

Part of multimillion dollar taxpayer-funded training program

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The U.S. flak jacket transfer is part of a larger, multimillion-dollar American training program for Fatah forces.

Since the late 1990s, the U.S. has run training bases for PA militias. The U.S. also has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in financial aid and weapons to build up the PA militias.

U.S.-run courses are currently training a new advanced police force billed as the most professional, capable Palestinian security force ever assembled. The police units are being built up to assume security control of the West Bank following the planned creation of a Palestinian state and any Israeli evacuation from the territory.

The U.S. runs training bases for the PA police in the West Bank city of Jericho and also at U.S.-operated bases in the Jordanian village of Giftlik.

Gen. Keith Dayton, the U.S. security coordinator to the Palestinian territories, last year initiated the U.S. taxpayer-funded advanced program, which trains 500 to 600 PA cadets at a time at the American bases.

The course in Jordan lasts for three months and includes training in the use of weapons, conducting ambushes, fighting street crime, fighting terrorism and dealing with hostage situations, among other things, according to informed security officials.

After the cadets successfully complete the training in Jordan, the students continue with more advanced training courses at the U.S.-run base in the West Bank city of Jericho. ....