Abbas Fires Three of His Top Security Chiefs
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fired three of his top security chiefs on Thursday after militants, puncturing a ceasefire he reached with Israel, bombarded Jewish settlements in Gaza with mortar rounds.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, maneuvering against his Hamas rivals, overruled constitutional curbs on his emergency government and named an ex-guerrilla chief for a key security post on Sunday.
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As Islamist gunmen routed his last forces in Gaza, Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed the Palestinian government on Thursday and declared a state of emergency after six days of bloody faction fighting.
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President Mahmoud Abbas ordered security forces to deploy across Gaza on Tuesday after the killing of three young sons of one of his loyalists shocked Palestinians and stoked fears of internal strife.
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A top Palestinian official said Saturday he would dismantle an elite security unit accused of abuse and corruption in a first step toward overhauling the tangled network of Palestinian security forces.
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The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas today ordered his presidential guard to strike back at Hamas as they tightened their grip on Gaza.
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Mahmoud Abbas, who was chosen as PLO Chief to succeed late Yasser Arafat, on Sunday survived an assassination attempt by radical Palestinian gunmen who killed two security service personnel.
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Palestinian security forces on Saturday briefly detained three top members of a faction that claimed an attack that wounded two Israelis, officials said, marking the first such move since Mahmoud Abbas was elected leader last month.
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Fears that the struggle to find a new Palestinian leader could bring bloodshed and instability were confirmed last night when the PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas was caught in a gun battle during a visit to Gaza.
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The Palestinian leadership was further split Sunday as President Mahmoud Abbas swore in a temporary cabinet for his emergency government, a move described by a Hamas official as "illegal" and outside Abbas' authority.
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Before dawn Friday, security forces shot and killed three armed Palestinians attempting to infiltrate communities in the Gush Katif settlement block.
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A bomb blast seriously wounded the Palestinian intelligence chief at his headquarters Saturday, in what security officials called an assassination attempt against a key ally of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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GAZA CITY -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, confronting a brazen challenge to his authority, fired three top security commanders yesterday and issued a warning to Hamas after members of the militant Islamic group shelled Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip in violation of a truce announced two days before.
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The three Army leaders dismissed so far:
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - New Palestinian President  Mahmoud Abbas ordered security forces Monday to prevent attacks  on Israel by militants defying his calls for calm.
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GAZA CITY -- Gunmen fired on the Palestinian foreign minister's convoy yesterday, and militants launched mortar shells at President Mahmoud Abbas's office in a daylong wave of factional violence that killed three people.
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