Yasser Arafat met Tuesday with CIA Director George Tenet in Ramallah for talks on security reforms. The Palestinian Authority president presented a plan that called for reducing the number of Palestinian security forces by half and tightening their supervision, with Arafat remaining the head of a “supreme security council.”
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