Sleeping with the enemy

This documentary reveals the top-secret cooperation between the CIA and the PLO since the early 1970s. It looks at why the US felt the need to protect American interests in the Middle East by reaching an agreement with 'terror organisation'. With Islamic extremism on the rise in Gaza and the West Bank, the US gave Jibril Rajoub, head of the Preventive Security Service in the West Bank millions. It begins with Ali Hassan Salameh, a young man who rose from an impoverished childhood to become one of former PLO leader Yasser Arafat's chief lieutenants. His task: to head Arafat's private guard, Force 17, and to engage "the devil", that is, to make contact with the US Government.
The documentary includes interviews with former US secretary of state George Schultz and the man who was former US president Bill Clinton's special envoy to the Middle East, Dennis Ross. It also includes an interview with Abu Daoud, one of the terrorists involved in the massacre at the Munich Olympics in 1972.

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