ARABS-ISRAEL - Aug. 10 - Yehiye Meets Tenet.

PA Interior Minister Abdel Razik Yehiye meets CIA Director George Tenet outside Washington to discuss reorganising PA security forces. (Proposed reforms include a merger of the different branches of the PA security services in a bid to make them more accountable and boost their ability to rein in Islamic militants responsible for anti-Israeli attacks. In his first public acceptance of foreign involvement in reform of his security apparatus, Arafat said on Aug. 9 that US, Egyptian and Jordanian officials would oversee the changes). Commenting on the meeting between Yehiye and Tenet, Arafat said in Ramallah: "The talks were very positive". Meanwhile, violence continued. On Aug. 11, the Army killed a Palestinian militant in the Gaza Strip after he wounded an Israeli civilian repairing the security fence. In other violence, an armed Palestinian infiltrated the settlement of Mehora in the West Bank late on Aug. 10, killing a woman and wounding her husband before Israeli soldiers shot the attacker dead. Hamas claimed responsibility for the Mehora attack. At least 1,497 Palestinians and 587 Israelis have died since the start of the uprising in late-Sept. 2000.