{"id":1803,"date":"2007-02-05T12:42:55","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T16:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2007-02-05T12:42:55","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T16:42:55","slug":"us-to-support-up-to-10000-extra-abbas-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1803","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to support up to 10,000 extra Abbas troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adam Entous, <em>Reuters<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20070203\/wl_nm\/palestinians_usa_forces_dc_2\">3 February 2007<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. assistance has largely been limited until now to around 4,000 members of Abbas&#8217;s presidential guard.<\/p>\n<p>But documents obtained by <em>Reuters<\/em> on Saturday showed that the U.S. government&#8217;s $86.4 million security assistance program could cover at least 13,500 troops loyal to Abbas.<\/p>\n<p>The National Security Forces (NSF) is the largest security force under Abbas&#8217;s control and is viewed by many Palestinians to be the equivalent of an army, though it is poorly trained and equipped compared to the smaller presidential guard.<\/p>\n<p>Under the U.S. security program, $76.4 million will fund &#8220;projects to transform and strengthen elements of the Palestinian Authority&#8217;s security structure, specifically the National Security Forces and Presidential Guard in an effort to improve public order and fight terror in the<br \/>\nWest Bank and Gaza,&#8221; the documents said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><u><strong>Further reading:<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. Backing for Fatah Stirs New Conflict<\/strong><br \/>\nJon Elmer and Nora Barrows-Friedman, <em>The Electronic Intifada<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article6492.shtml\">2 February 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The American proxy war in Gaza<\/strong><br \/>\nAli Abunimah, <em>The Electronic Intifada<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article6494.shtml\">3 February 2007<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Entous, Reuters, 3 February 2007 U.S. assistance has largely been limited until now to around 4,000 members of Abbas&#8217;s presidential guard. But documents obtained by Reuters on Saturday showed that the U.S. government&#8217;s $86.4 million security assistance program &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1803\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-t5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}