Less than a week before the meeting between Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen, Israeli security sources believe that Yasser Arafat is strengthening his hold on the Palestinian Authority. Recently Arafat received an urgent request for $20,000 to buy 6,000 meters of cloth to make uniforms for the Palestinian police. Arafat approved and signed it and instructed Finance Minister Salam Fayyad to transfer the money. Why is the chairman allocating funds, and why is he still involved with the security organizations, which should have been transferred to the supervision of the new prime minister, Abu Mazen?...
