Yasser Arafat fired the Cabinet minister he had appointed in June to reform the Palestinian Authority’s security services. Hani el-Hassan, a loyalist of the Palestinian Authority president, appears likely to replace Gen. Abdel Razak Yehiyeh, the interior minister, who was seen as a moderate.
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