Official who worked with U.S. planned suicide attack:Palestinian lawmaker, intelligence official also served as terror group chief

TEL AVIV-A legislator from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization who received U.S. weapons and coordinated security with U.S. intelligence agencies was convicted today of sending a suicide bomber to kill Israelis.Jamas Tarawi,who was elected in 2006 to the Palestinian Legislative Council and also served as an officer of Fatah's intelligence services, also openly served as the chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Martyrs Brigades terrorist group in the northern West Bank region of Nablus.The Brigades, Fatah's declared"military wing,"took responsibility along with the Islamic Jihad terror organization,for every suicide bombing in Israel the past three years and has carried out multiple suicide attacks since 2000.Tarawi was convicted in an Israeli military court of having been an accomplice in a suicide bombing in a Tel Aviv cafe in March
2002 in which an Israeli woman was killed.The indictment stated the suicide bomber was sent directly from Tarawi's home in Nablus to Tel Aviv.Tarawi also was accused of recruiting several successful suicide bombers who carried out attacks between 2000 and 2002 and of carrying out multiple shootings against Israeli civilians and soldiers in the West Bank, including against Jewish worshippers at Joseph's Tomb, Judaism's third holiest site, which is located next to Nablus. Israel retreated from the Tomb in 2000 following a series of shootings perpetuated by the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.In his role as a Fatah intelligence official, Tarawi's unit coordinated security with American agencies, including the offices of Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, the American security coordinator in the region. Tarawi's uncle, Tifiq, is chief of Fatah's intelligence agencies; Jamal was seen as Tifiq's potential successor and served as one of his main deputies.
Jamal Tarawi's intelligence unit in Ramallah reportedly received shipments of U.S. military aid, including thousands of high-powered assault rifles. Tarawi, who has granted in-person interviews with WND, himself carried a U.S. assault rifle.
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