Why did the PLO ambassador in Washington, DC resign? My sources tell me that PLO ambassador in Washington, DC, `Afif Safieh, has resigned in protest (and in disgust) against the heavy-handed intervention in his office's affairs by the Muhammad Dahlan (official or unofficial) front, the American Task Force for Palestine. Apparently, Abu Mazen-Dahlan gang has been so impressed with the close ties between the American Task Force and the Bush administration that they have decided to disregard the PLO office and to treat the Task Force as the actual embassy of the Muhammad Dahlan team. I am told that Safieh would receive from the Task Force texts of speeches that he was supposed to deliver (often in the name of Abu Mazen)--and some of those speeches would contain praise for the American Task force and its president. Safieh will become the PLO ambassador in Moscow.