Mike Whitney: Marwan al Barghouti, a Palestinian Mandela
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&quot;Why did Fatah&#39;s revolutionary council acted so quickly to approve PLOâs Mahmoud Abbas as the Fatahâs candidate for the January elections?..&quot;. By Mike Whitney. The lame duck Secretary of State, Colin Powell
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In death, as in life, Yasser Arafat lit the flames of the Palestinian struggle for freedom and dignity. If he did nothing else - he made certain that the Palestinian struggle for liberty and
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Marwan Barghouti, a popular leader, may make a long shot bid to succeed Yasir Arafat as head of the nation that would be Palestine.
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The collapse of Ariel Sharon&#39;s government endangers the Israeli pullout from Gaza. Or does it? And what does Marwan Barghouti&#39;s candidacy mean for the Palestinians&#39; future?
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Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti may be close to withdrawing from the race for Palestinian Authority president. Hatem Abdel Kader, a member of Fatah&#39;s
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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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Marwan Barghouti, a fiery Palestinian leader serving multiple life terms in an Israeli prison, indicated Thursday that he is running for Yasser Arafat's position as head of the Palestinian Authority, defying the traditional leadership and scrambling the political picture ahead of the Jan. 9 election.
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PARIS, Nov 11 (IPS) - Nelson Mandela spoke for much of the world when he   praised Yasser Arafat in the preface of a biography as a leader  who  âtransformed the Palestinians' status from that of  refugees to that of a  nation in the most complete sense of the  term.â
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Marwan Barghouti, a popular politician currently in an Israeli jail, called on Palestinians to support Mahmoud Abbas in elections on Jan. 9.
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Kadoura Fares, one of Marwan Barghouti&#39;s closest associates, said last night that he plans to meet with Barghouti today in his Israeli prison to find out whether he wants to run for chairman of the Palestinian Authority as an independent candidate or to
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Fatah, the mainstream Palestinian movement, hopes that its former West Bank leader Marwan Barghouti would take back his candidacy for the Jan. 9 presidential election.
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He&#39;s called on Palestinians to back the leading contender, Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen. Middle East Correspondent Jane Hutcheon reports from Jersualem.
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Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian leader now in jail, has been entered in next month&#39;s presidential election to succeed the late Yasser Arafat.
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The Palestinian struggle for freedom and independence is larger than the late President Yasser Arafat. The decades-long symbolism that Arafat embodied should not be underestimated.
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Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has said that he will be a candidate in the elections next month. The move has thrown the upcoming election into confusion, as it had seemed interim leader Mahmoud
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RAMALLAH: Jailed West Bank Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti on Wednesday officially signed up for the January 9 election to become Palestinian Authority president, his wife Fadwa told reporters.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank Jailed Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti (mahr-WAHN&#39; bahr-GOO&#39;-tee) now says he won&#39;t be a candidate for Palestinian president.