Intifada leader seeks Arafat job
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Ten Palestinians are listed for a January poll to succeed Yasser Arafat, including a leader jailed for life by Israel.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s death opens a window of opportunity. The Palestinian leader who loomed so large for so many years - and who had recently been rejected as a partner by Israel
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Sept 28  - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has ordered his security services to help secure the release of a CNN producer kidnapped by Palestinian militants in Gaza, his office said Tuesday.
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(Ramallah, West Bank-AP) Nov. 14, 2004 - Palestinian officials are pushing forward with steps to a secure a new leader after the death of Yasser Arafat, scheduling presidential elections for January ninth.
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Top Palestinians are to meet the French president and government ministers in a bid to see their ailing leader, Yasser Arafat, who is in hospital in Paris.
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JERUSALEM - Jailed uprising leader Marwan Barghouti will seek the presidency of the Palestinian Authority, an associate said Thursday.
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Palestinian democracy activist Mustafa Barghouti joins the race to replace Yasser Arafat as Palestinian president.
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According to an Israeli official, Yasir Arafat was allowed to see doctors from Tunisia. For almost three years, Mr. Arafat, the Palestinian leader, has been in Ramallah on the West Bank for most of the last three years.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (15/12/04) - Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Mahmoud Abbas - the favored candidate to succeed late Palestinian Authority president Yassir Arafat, has made a bid for peace with Israel, calling on Palestinian militant
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Marwan Barghouti, a leader of the Palestinian uprising jailed by Israel but perhaps the strongest candidate to oust Yasser Arafat's old guard of politicians, plans to run in upcoming presidential elections, a person close to Barghouti said Saturday.
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In a recent interview with foreign reporters, Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat was asked who would succeed him in the case of his demise.
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Shaking up the race to replace Yasser Arafat, imprisoned uprising leader Marwan Barghouti announced his candidacy for the Palestinian presidency in a last-minute decision to challenge the establishment candidate.
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A cameraman shoots video footage backdropped by a row of posters depicting Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Kalandia, prior to a PLO leadership meeting at the compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday Nov. 6, 2004.
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The ruling Fatah party chose Mahmoud Abbas as its candidate to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestinian Authority in Jan. 9 elections, a Palestinian official said. Abbas, 69, Arafat's longtime deputy as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, has already been named head of the PLO.
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Description: Nine candidates are running for the Palestinian presidency in January&#39;s election, but the spotlight is on Mahmoud Abbas, who succeeded Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and jailed militant leader Marwan Barghouti
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An assassination attempt was made Sunday on the man who may replace Yasser Arafat as Palestinian chief.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell has arrived in Israel determined to press both Israeli and Palestinian leaders for a process to enable Palestinians to elect a successor to Yasser Arafat.