Palstinenser: entmachtetEx Fatah intelligence chief

In a dramatic step, the Fatah organization, the influential politician Mohammed Dahlan has thrown out its guiding compass. He was considered one of the leading Palestinian representatives and darling of the West. Now he has fallen out of favor. Ramallah - The Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has expelled its former leader in the Gaza Strip, Mohammed Dahlan, the level of management.

The Fatah Central Committee announced after a meeting in Ramallah, Dahlan's membership is suspended until an internal investigation was continuing against him. Dahlan's relations with Abbas after Palestinian sources were strained lately. The former intelligence chief was accused, among other things, he had undermined in private talks with Fatah members the authority of Abbas and other members of the Central Committee.

Accordingly, Dahlan is said to have referred to as "incompetent" In recent weeks it had already been deprived of some privileges - such as security guards outside his home in Ramallah. When a satellite television station in Ramallah that Dahlan is one and should go on air from January to was closed.

Palestinian media reported that the origin of his fortune will investigated. In addition, allegations would be examined, after which Dahlan is said to have tried to set up a private militia. After the decision of the Central Committee Dahlan will continue to be not longer in charge of media and information within Fatah and be succeeded by Abbas' spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh.

By Dahlan, who is currently staying abroad, there was no reaction Wednesday to the decision. In the past, Dahlan was one of the major Palestinian representatives and as a darling of the West. Within Fatah, however, his star fell after his troops were expelled in mid-2007 of the radical Islamic Hamas from the Gaza Strip.

Many Fatah members saw this as a humiliating defeat, was held responsible for Dahlan. In Fatah General Conference in August 2009 in Bethlehem, but it was a return to the top of the movement succeeded.

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