According to Klein, some members of the Brigades, including a deputy commander from Nablus, enrolled last week in U.S.-courses in Jericho already under way.

In ""Schmoozing," Klein details how the U.S. has been arming, training, funding and coordinating security with members of Fatah's Force 17 and the Preventative Security Services, who openly serve in Fatah's declared "military wing," the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

"It's scandalous that in the midst of the war on terror, our tax dollars are used to fund, train and arm the most active Palestinian West Bank jihad group," said Klein.

"It took no investigative reporting whatsoever on my part to discover members of U.S.-backed, trained and armed Fatah militias are also members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group," writes Klein. "I simply went around the West Bank and asked Fatah militia members, who walk around with American-provided high-power assault rifles, whether they are also in the Brigades."

Among dozens of militants interviewed in "Schmoozing," Klein caught up with Abu Yousuf, a Force 17 officer who received American training in Jericho in 1999 as a member of the Preventative Security Services.

Yousuf, chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Ramallah, is accused of participating in anti-Israel terrorism, including the Kahane murder after which Yousuf was extended refuge by Yasser Arafat to live in the late PLO leader's Ramallah compound, known as the Muqata.

Yousuf still lives in the compound, where U.S. weapons are regularly delivered to Fatah. He is a ranking member of the Palestinian team that receives the American weapons.

'U.S.' training key to Palestinian resistance'

Speaking to Klein through a translator, Yousuf said his American training was instrumental in attacks on Israelis.

"All the methods and techniques that we studied in these trainings, we applied them against the Israelis," he said.

"We sniped at Israeli settlers and soldiers," he said. "We broke into settlements and Israeli army bases and posts. We collected information on the movements of soldiers and settlers. We collected information about the best timing to infiltrate our bombers inside Israel. We used weapons and we produced explosives, and, of course, the training we received from the Americans and the Europeans were a great help to the resistance."

Yousuf said the training included both intelligence and military tactics.

"In the intelligence part, we learned collection of information regarding suspected persons, how to follow suspected guys, how to infiltrate organizations and penetrate cells of groups that we were working on and how to prevent attacks and to steal in places," he said.

"On the military level, we received trainings on the use of weapons, all kind of weapons and explosives," said Yousuf. "We received sniping trainings, work of special units, especially as part as what they call the fight against terror. We learned how to lay siege, how to break into places where our enemies closed themselves in, how to oppress protest movements, demonstrations and other activities of opposition."

Continued Yousuf: "I do not think that the operations of the Palestinian resistance would have been so successful and would have killed more than 1,000 Israelis since 2000 and defeated the Israelis in Gaza without these [American] trainings."

Yousuf seemed to anticipate criticism for speaking publicly about the training. He's not "talking about U.S. training in order to irritate the Americans or the Israelis and not in order to create provocations," he said. "I'm just telling you the truth."

'U.S. trained terror group'

When it comes to the U.S. training terrorists, Abu Yousuf is the norm, writes Klein.

"America has trained almost the entire senior leadership of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades," he writes.

Klein indicates he learned that some Fatah militia members who are open leaders of the Brigades are even up for future American training.

The Brigades' main stronghold is in the West Bank city of Nablus.

"The entire senior leadership of the Brigades in Nablus, every single one of them, is U.S.-trained," writes Klein. "The majority of the Brigades serve in various Fatah militias."

The leader of the Brigades in Nablus, Ala Senakreh, received U.S. training and serves in the Palestinian Preventative Security forces. Senakreh is widely considered to be the West Bank chief of the Brigades; his cell is accused of planning multiple suicide bombings.

"In other words, a U.S.-trained police officer charged with stopping terrorism in Nablus is also the known head of the city's terror group. Something smells a little wrong here," writes Klein.

The No. 2 of the Brigades in Nablus, Nasser Abu Aziz, is also U.S.-trained, according to Klein. He received training in Italy, as well.

Zacharias Zubeidi, the infamous leader of the Brigades in Jenin – the city where most Palestinian suicide bombers originate – was trained by the U.S. government in Jericho.

"The theme goes on and on," states Klein. "Israel regularly arrests U.S.-trained Fatah members wielding American weapons who are wanted for terror attacks and who used their American training to carry out their operations."

U.S.-trained terrorists are just the beginning of American support for terrorism claimed in "Schmoozing." Klein also details how:

• The Bush administration has sent hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons per year to Palestinian militias without official congressional oversight.

   

• U.S. weapons have been used in scores of terrorist shootings, including against Israeli schoolgirls.

   

• U.S. intelligence has coordinated security with terrorists.

   

• The U.S. funds Hamas-run schools and a university in which the chemistry lab has been used to produce rockets and suicide bomb belts.

   

• U.S.-funded streets and sports stadiums have been named after enemies of America, including Iraqi insurgent leaders, suicide bombers and even hanged Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

To interview Aaron Klein, contact Tim Bueler Public Relations by e-mail or call 530 401 3285.

Special offer:

"Schmoozing with Terrorists: From Hollywood to the Holy Land Jihadists Reveal their Global Plans – to a Jew!"

Previous stories:

Claim: U.S. training known terror leader

Terror leaders describe America bound by Islam

Naomi Campbell urging terrorists on!

Richard Gere helped Hamas win power?

Terrorists enrolled in U.S. security course

U.S. Army officers e-mailing terrorists

Accusation: U.S. trained terrorists

It's official: Terrorists endorse Hillary in '08

Rosie turns down terrorist invitation

Oh, Rosie! Terrorists invite her to Mideast

Jihadists respond to 'Schmoozing with Terrorists'

Terrorists disclose: We LOVE liberals!

'Schmoozing with Terrorists' tops Amazon charts

How YOU are funding jihadists!

Terrorists: We'll cut off head of 'prostitute' Britney Spears

Terrorists dish U.S. celebrities in new book!

Terrorists offer Americans tips for winning global war