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Tawfik Tirawi

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “fatah official who led the investigation into the death of former president yasser arafat”. Today it says “palestinian official affiliated with fatah”.
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Tawfik Mohammed Hussein al-Tirawi (born 15 November 1948, Arabic : توفيق الطيراوي ) is a Palestinian official affiliated with Fatah . He served as the head of Palestinian Authority Intelligence in the West Bank from 1994 to 2008. He led the investigation into the death of former President Yasser Arafat . Tirawi, the head of Fatah's Commission for Intellectual Mobilization and Studies, was elected to the Central Committee at the sixth Fatah convention in 2009.

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “fatah official who led the investigation into the death of former president yasser arafat”. Today it says “palestinian official affiliated with fatah”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

fatah official who led the investigation into the death of former president yasser arafat

Now

palestinian official affiliated with fatah

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