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	Palestinian Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A cousin, Musa Rajoub, was executed as a collaborator by the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, 23 Apr 2002.
		Rajoub has a longstanding rivalry with Dahlan for control of PA security forces, and was appointed Arafat's National Security Advisor in Sept 2003 largely as a way for Arafat to counterbalance the Abbas-Dahlan partnership.
		Rajoub is viewed as a pragmatist concerning relations with Israel, advocating a two-state solution and peaceful coexistence.
	www.palestinehistory.com /palbio31.htm (736 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Profile: Jibril Rajoub
		Jibril Rajoub, the head of the Preventative Security service in the West Bank, is widely seen as one of the leading contenders to succeed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
		Mr Rajoub is viewed as a pragmatist and has in the past - mainly in 1996 and 97 - ordered his forces to clamp down on the Islamic militants of Hamas and Islamic Jihad to stop them attacking Israel.
		Mr Rajoub commands several thousand men, recruited almost entirely from the occupied territories and many of whom were involved in the first Palestinian intifada of 1987 to 1993.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/1881756.stm (498 words)

	Jibril Rajoub Biography
		Musa Rajoub, was executed as a collaborator by the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, 23 Apr 2002.
		Rajoub kept his preventive force out of anti-Israeli activity, used it generally as a tool for building up the PA and defending its institutions from the growing influence of the Islamists.
		Rajoub is very opposed to Jordanian influence in Palestinian affairs, but liases closely with the Egyptians, the one party that maintains contacts with all Palestinian groups, including the Oslo rejectionists.
	www.geocities.com /lawrenceofcyberia/palbios/pa06000.html (1739 words)

	Nayef Rajoub - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He has been arrested five times by Israel and once by his brother Jibril Rajoub in 1996 durring a crackdown on Hamas members by Palestinian Preventive Security led by Jibril.
		Nayef and his brother parted politicaly years ago, Jibril is a member of the rival Fatah party and ran against Nayef in the 2006 Palestinian elections for Religious Affairs Minister.
		Nayef Rajoub was arested by Israel on June 29, 2006 as part of Israel's Operation Summer Rains.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nayef_Rajoub (219 words)

	PM - Hamas popular ahead of Palestinian elections: polls
		Jibril Rajoub is representing Fatah in the election, and his younger brother Nayef is lining up for Hamas.
		Nicknamed "the king" by some Palestinians, Jibril Rajoub was one of Yasser Arafat's former lieutenants and is now seeking election to Parliament as a candidate for the late Palestinian President's ruling Fatah Party.
		JIBRIL RAJOUB: We are candidates for two different factions, but both of us are Palestinians, both of us are committed to the national unity.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2006/s1554412.htm (639 words)

	Fatah activists make militant statements legitimizing the continuation of terrorist activities
		Jibril Rajoub (PA national security advisor) and Muhammad Dahlan (PA minister of civil affairs), who are among the leading second-generation Fatah activists, have recently openly advocated the continuation of the “active resistence” (i.e., terrorist activities) by Fatah and the other Palestinian terrorist organizations in the West Bank and oppose disarming them.
		The timing of Rajoub and Dahlan's statements may be related, in our assessment, to the Fatah primaries, which were postponed to November 18-20, and to the latest escalation in the Gaza Strip.
		Jibril Rajoub, the PA's national security advisor, and a leader of the second generation of Fatah, was interviewed in Cairo by daily newspaper Al-Zaman on October 30, 2005.
	www.intelligence.org.il /eng/eng_n/pa_e.htm (894 words)

	newsobserver.com \| World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Rajoub who spent 17 years in Israeli jails, speaks fluent Hebrew and served as a negotiator with Israel for a decade chose to pursue a masters degree in Israel studies.
		Rajoub spent 17 years in Israeli jails, speaks fluent Hebrew and served as a negotiator with Israel for a decade.
		The 53-year-old Rajoub is one of dozens of Fatah officials who suddenly found themselves jobless after the party was thrashed by Hamas militants in the January parliamentary election.
	dwb.newsobserver.com /24hour/world/story/3307292p-12184688c.html (836 words)

	History News Network
		Jibril Rajoub, appointed Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's adviser for national security affairs on August 25th, 2003.
		Rajoub, who represented Arafat at last week's ceremony to launch the Geneva Accord in Switzerland, said that the purpose of the Geneva Accord and other meetings with Israeli left-wingers was to "isolate" Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
		Rajoub expressed concern at the widespread protests against the Geneva Accord in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, saying the agreement was nothing more than understandings reached between personalities from the Israeli and Palestinian peace camps reflecting their vision of the solution to the Middle East conflict.
	hnn.us /readcomment.php?id=25487 (1060 words)

	israelinsider: diplomacy: Who, or what, will replace Yasser Arafat?
		Indeed, Marwan Barghouti and Jibril Rajoub, along with their followers, are themselves being challenged and pursued by Israeli forces.
		Rajoub, 48, is considered the strong man of the West Bank, and someone who has maintained a "clean" image despite the Palestinian uprising.
		Rajoub is frequently interviewed by the Israeli media, and Palestinians cite, in his favor, the fact that IDF tanks shelled his Ramallah home.
	www.israelinsider.com /channels/diplomacy/articles/dip_0132.htm (1548 words)

	The Scotsman - Security chief defies Arafat
		Still, the contest between Mr Arafat and Mr Rajoub was being watched closely by Palestinians, Israelis and Americans alike as a test of the Palestinian leader’s standing in the face of US and Israeli efforts to oust him.
		Mr Rajoub is known to admire George Tenet, the CIA director.
		JIBRIL Rajoub, 49, is one of the most powerful figures in the Palestinian Authority.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=722392002 (1106 words)

	CBSNews.com
		Palestinian National Security Adviser Jibril Rajoub was the first senior Palestinian official to resign after Mahmoud Abbas was elected president in a landslide victory.
		In a statement, Rajoub said he was resigning in order to allow Abbas to appoint his own adviser.
		Rajoub, a moderate, was a longtime player in peace talks and truce negotiations with Israel, and earned respect for time served in Israeli prisons before the process was launched.
	www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/arafat/whois_rajoub.html (146 words)

	PA security advisor Jibril Rajoub wins Fatah primary in Hebron : Indybay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Saturday Dec 3rd, 2005 9:09 AM Jibril Rajoub, the Palestinian Authority national security advisor, reportedly won the Fatah primaries in the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday, although the results have not yet been officially confirmed.
		Rajoub also served prison time in Israel - 18 years - and is thought to be one of the leaders of the first intifada.
		His win is one of a chain of accomplishments by the younger generation of PA leaders in these primaries.
	www.indybay.org /newsitems/2005/12/03/17874581.php (610 words)

	Mister Rajoub’s Neighborhood
		Rajoub has been Arafat’s button man for years, and he will start arresting Hamas bombers as soon as pigs become kosher and Gary Coleman is Governor of California.
		Mister Rajoub strikes up a conversation with Mister Postman, and asks him to show the children watching how to make letter bombs to mail to the neighbors across the Green Line and nefarious Palestinian "collaborators." After Mister Postman leaves, Handyman Haigerry comes by, always willing to explain how gadgets, gizmos and other things are made.
		Together Mister Rajoub, King Friday, and all their friends break out into song, "Oh you are special, yes so special, everyone is special, in their special way." Mister Rajoub plays the triangle in accompaniment.Alas, it is time to go and say goodbye to the neighborhood.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/974326/posts (721 words)

	israelinsider: politics: Family fissure in Hebron: Fatah for one, Hamas for another (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Jibril works hard to play his two most important cards: his ties with Arafat and how he was not afraid to go his own way.
		The Rajoub brothers grew up on a farm of chickens and goats in the nearby village of Dura.
		Jibril joined Fatah as a teenager in 1969 - a year after his first arrest by Israeli authorities.
	web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Politics/7546.htm (1361 words)

	Yourish.com » More conditions on fighting terror
		The most recent post held by Jibril Rajoub was national security advisor to the late Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat.
		Rajoub was born Dura, in the West Bank, in 1953.
		Rajoub was released from prison in 1985 and expelled to Lebanon in 1988.
	www.yourish.com /2005/09/12/45 (472 words)

	Jibril Rajoub
		Jibril Rajoub was Arafat's national security adviser and he also headed the Preventive Security Service in the West Bank.
		Rajoub was considered close to Mahmoud Abbas [Abu Mazen] until Abbas chose Mohammed Dahlan, Rajoub's sworn rival, as minister of security.
		Dahlan and Rajoub were both jailed by Israel during the first Intifada.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/palestine/jibril-rajoub.htm (174 words)

	israelinsider: diplomacy: West Bank security chief denies Arafat threatened him at gunpoint
		West Bank Preventative Security Chief Jabril Rajoub this morning dismissed Israeli media reports that said PA Chairman Yasser Arafat threatened him at gunpoint during the course of a loud argument between the two.
		Rajoub, considered a Palestinian moderate and a possible member of any future Palestinian leadership, reportedly challenged Arafat by claiming the Palestinian leader gave conflicting orders and did not follow clear diplomatic policies.
		Rajoub also charged that Arafat was not consistent in his attempts to fight the Hamas and terror infrastructure in the Palestinian territories.
	www.israelinsider.com /channels/diplomacy/articles/dip_0168.htm (631 words)

	Jabril Rajoub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The head of the Preventive Security Service in the West Bank, Rajoub leads one of the most powerful of the Palestinian Authority's various security agencies and has several thousand officers under his command.
		Rajoub, 48, earned his credentials on the Palestinian street after spending years in Israeli jails, where he also learned to speak Hebrew.
		Rajoub has been a negotiator on security issues with the Israelis under U.S. mediation.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Rajoub.html (126 words)

	PA intelligence chief suspected of terror links reportedly sacked by Arafat - Pravda.Ru
		Rajoub, Arafat meet for first time since dismissal Rajoub and Arafat met Sunday evening for the first time since reports of his dismissal leaked into the media.
		Rajoub told Reuters yesterday that he told Arafat it was "a big mistake to appoint (this) new chief" - Zuhair Manasra, governor of Jenin.
		Rajoub seen emerging a winner from dismissal Arafat's dismissals of security officials were not part of a sweeping reform of the Palestinian Authority, but rather his attempt to retain total control of what was happening in the PA, Roni Shaked wrote today in Yediot Aharonot.
	english.pravda.ru /hotspots/2002/07/08/32022.html (1123 words)

	DEBKAfile - Palestinian Shakeup: Jibril’s Star Rises as Abbas Fades
		Rajoub and Dahlan, old adversaries, will thus jostle each other for the same terrain, both promising to consolidate Palestinian security branches under one authority, though not the same one.
		Brigadier General Rajoub emerged as a local luminary of Young Fatah on the West Bank in the 1970s and 1980s when Arafat and his clique were still exiled in Tunis.
		Unlike Dahlan, Rajoub was one of the few Fatah leaders who kept his own and his preventive force’s hands clean of terrorism – or so it was generally believed.
	www.debka.com /article.php?aid=551 (1498 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Mister Rajoub’s Neighborhood by Steven Plaut
		The whole world is suddenly having little happy puppy yelps because Arafat has appointed a new “security official,” supposedly to rein in the Palestinian Islamist terrorists and their leaders.
		Together Mister Rajoub, King Friday, and all their friends break out into song, "Oh you are special, yes so special, everyone is special, in their special way." Mister Rajoub plays the triangle in accompaniment.Alas, it is time to go and say goodbye to the neighborhood. But we can
		A collection of his commentaries on the current events in Israel can be found on his "blog" at www.stevenplaut.blogspot.com.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9623 (462 words)

	Jibril Rajoub is back - Haaretz - Israel News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The office of Jibril Rajoub, the Palestinian Authority's national security advisor, is situated in his former private home, which was hit by an Israeli tank shell.
		Rajoub believes the Israeli security establishment, at Mofaz's orders, acted as it did and tried to get him killed for one reason - so it could say there is no Palestinian partner.
		The Egyptian leadership has a key role in the continuation of the political process since it is the only one that meets and maintains contacts with all the Palestinian groups, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad and left-wing fronts, as well as with Israel and the United States, and of course with the Arab states and Europe.
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=379381 (941 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Arafat under fire over security sacking
		Describing the decision to replace him with the former governor of Jenin, Zuheir Manasara, as a "mistake", Jibril Rajoub told the BBC that Mr Arafat had still to contain the anger over the appointment.
		Mr Rajoub, touted by some as a successor to Mr Arafat, said his removal from the PSS had not been "personal".
		Commending Mr Rajoub for the "great job" he had done, he said he would work to enhance the PSS's new role as part of the Interior Ministry.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2104062.stm (479 words)

	ABC News: Palestinian Brothers Now Political Rivals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Former West Bank security chief Jibril Rajoub smiles as he sits under election posters showing himself and the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at a Fatah Party rally in the West Bank town of Hebron Saturday Jan. 14, 2006.
		On the Hamas slate: his younger brother Nayef, a longtime academic and beekeeper who has picked up the Hamas lingo of Islamic values and the need to uproot the corruption and cronyism of Arafat's era.
		Four years ago with Arafat feeling threatened by Jibril's influence tensions reached a point where Arafat pull his pistol and tried to punch him.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1514112&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (507 words)

	Jibril Rajoub Role Profile, Role Profiles, Arab-Israeli Politics, Fall, 2005
		Jibril Rajoub is currently the Palestinian Authority’s Head of Security for the West Bank and
		Rajoub is publicly opposed to Jordanian influence in Palestinian affairs, but maintains close ties
		Jibril Rajoub was born in the West Bank in 1953 to a prominent farming family.
	www.la.utexas.edu /chenry/aip/fall05/roles05/msg00008.html (545 words)

	World Tribune.com: Palestinian security officials protest Arafat decision
		The officers object to Arafat's order to dismiss Col. Jibril Rajoub as head of the Preventive Security Apparatus.
		Aides of Rajoub, accompanied by senior officers of the Preventive Security, met Arafat on late Saturday.
		Last week, Arafat switched Rajoub with Zuheir Manasra, military governor of the Jenin region.
	worldtribune.com /worldtribune/WTARC/2002/me_palestinians_07_07.html (188 words)

	Israeli Assassinations
		Bystanders and police in Beirut examine the remains of the automobile of Mohammed Jibril, the son of Palestinian leader Ahmed Jibril.
		Rajoub, known as one of the more moderate and pragmatic Palestinian officials.
		Rajoub is certain he was personally targeted, just as Mohammed Dahlan, the Palestinian official in Gaza, must have been targeted when his Jeep was riddled with bullets by Israeli troops earlier this year (2001).
	www.revisionisthistory.org /palestine7.html (2509 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » All armed Palestinian groups prepared for ceasefire: Jibril Rajoub
		All armed Palestinian groups prepared for ceasefire: Jibril Rajoub
		JERUSALEM, March 9 (AFP) - All Palestinian armed groups are ready to observe a ceasefire in both Israel and the occupied territories, General Jibril Rajoub, national security advisor of the Palestinian Authority said on Wednesday.
		With the exception of public UN sources, reproduction or redistribution of the above text, in whole, part or in any form, requires the prior consent of the original source.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6AB8VY?OpenDocument (167 words)

	Jihad Watch: Palestinian Authority National Security Advisor Jibril Rajoub: Marwan Barghuthi Founded and Commanded the ...
		Palestinian Authority National Security Advisor Jibril Rajoub: Marwan Barghuthi Founded and Commanded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades upon Arafat's Orders
		Following are excerpts from an interview given by the Palestinian Authority's National Security Advisor Jibril Rajoub, which was aired on Al-Jazeera TV on January 11, 2006.
		Jibril Rajoub: We were the ones who fought and kept up the resistance, sir.
	www.jihadwatch.org /archives/009817.php (768 words)

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