US, Israel and senior Fatah members plotted to kill Arafat

"Farouk Kaddumi, [Secretary-General of the Fatah Central Committee and of the Political Department of the PLO] said at a press conference in Jordan last Sunday [July 12, 2009] that Arafat, prior to his death, had entrusted to him the protocol of a secret meeting of Abbas and Dahlan with former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and American Intelligence officers, during which they planned the assassination of Arafat and other leaders of the Palestinian resistance factions."