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"US report urges Arafat to use torture for peace
An influential think-tank advises Palestinian Authority to ruthlessly repress militant elements without regard for basic human rights
By Robert Fisk in Gaza
6 November 2000
Palestinian leaders have been shocked to read an American think-tank report which urges them to act "ruthlessly" against opponents of the Oslo agreement – even if this involves "excessive force", trials without due process of law and "interrogation methods that border on psychological and/or physical torture."
A draft copy of the report by the influential Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), which has close links with the United States government, has been published on the internet and circulated among dozens of members of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, including Yasser Arafat's most senior intelligence officers..."
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