41.   Last month the Israeli human rights group Betselem accused the preventive security force of torturing detainees.

42.   Last August preventive security men shot dead a member of the presidential guard near the West Bank town of Tulkarem.

43.   Militants wanted by Israel have been recruited and trained for the PLO police, the Palestinian preventive security chief on the West Bank admitted Thursday.

44.   Palestinian suicide attacks play into the hands of Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, West Bank preventive security chief Jibril Rajoub said in a newspaper interview published Thursday.

45.   On Tuesday it began attacking the preventive security headquarters of Colonel Jibril Rajoub.

46.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signed Thursday a decree putting the police, preventive security and civil defence under the umbrella of the recently created interior ministry.

47.   Palestinian preventive security chief Jibril Rahub denied his men were involved in the first raid.

48.   Preventive security men returned to the village with machine guns and opened fire after another struggle.

49.   Preventive security officials said they were looking into the matter.

50.   Residents in the town of Dura confirmed the arrests and told AFP that one of them was a Palestinian intelligence officer and the other from the preventive security.