Ex-PA security chief Dahlan: Armed struggle was mistake

[Gimel]

On the three-year anniversary of the intifada, the
outgoing Palestinian security chief said militants
made a mistake in using arms against Israel and
failed to understand that the world had changed
after September 11.

Violence has been "detrimental to our national struggle," the
security chief, Mohammed Dahlan, said in remarks published Sunday, as thousands of Palestinians marked the anniversary with marches in the
West Bank.

In the West Bank city of Nablus, militants wearing fake explosive belts and burning a miniature Israeli bus led a crowd of several thousand.






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Dahlan, who served as security chief for four
months under the outgoing prime minister,
Mahmoud Abbas, said the militant groups have
been misreading the situation.

"Resorting to armed violence in certain phases
of the Palestinian intifada, the way it was
done in the past three years, proved to be
detrimental to our national struggle," Dahlan
told the Lebanese English-language newspaper
Daily Star in an e-mail interview.
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Yet it continues.