Arafat heir beats off Fatah &#39;old guard&#39;
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The man widely expected to succeed Yasser Arafat in next year&#39;s Palestinian elections, Mahmoud Abbas, yesterday appeared to win a power struggle in the dominant Fatah movement after a bloody gun battle in Gaza City.
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nearly three decades, a dress rehearsal for a presidential ballot next month to choose Yasser Arafat&#39;s successor. Fatah movement and Islamists sworn to destroying Israel.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, stands with Arun Ghandi, the grandson of Mohandas Ghandhi, at Arafat&#39;s compound in Ramallah, the West Bank, on Thursday.
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JERUSALEM -- A top Palestinian security leader who is a relative of Yasser Arafat escaped injury yesterday when a booby-trapped car exploded near his convoy in Gaza City, security officials said.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Anyone who didn&#39;t know better might have thought that Yasser Arafat was alive and well and running for Palestinian Authority president.
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(Ramallah, West Bank-AP) Dec. 11, 2004 - Yasser Arafat&#39;s nephew has given Palestinian leaders his uncle&#39;s medical records.
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Meanwhile, the favored candidate, Mahmoud Abbas, escaped injury as Palestinians waged a deadly gun battle during a mourning service for Yasir Arafat.
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&quot;Yasser Arafat, who died at the age of 75, in France on Thursday, was the standard-bearer of Palestinian nationalism for nearly half-a-century who could not see his dream of an independent state [of Palestine] become a reality.
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Description: Senior news analyst NPR&#39;s Daniel Schorr says the prospect of Middle East peace is much improved if young Palestinian leaders replace the aging Yasser Arafat &quot;old guard.
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PARIS -- Yasser Arafat's half brother insisted yesterday that the Palestinian people are entitled to know the cause of their leader's death, but Arafat's widow threatened a legal fight over the medical file in an ugly family tug of war.
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Since Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s health deteriorated dramatically last week, Marwan Barghouti, 45, has been among the names being floated to take over the Palestinian leadership in the event of Arafat&#39;s demise.
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A Palestinian pollster says Yasser Arafat&#39;s death will not leave a political vacuum because others effectively replaced him years ago.
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records would be given to Nasser al-Kidwa, Arafat&#39;s nephew and the Palestinian representative at the United Nations. The 75-year-old Palestinian leader died of an undisclosed illness at a French hospital on November 11.
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The wailing that attended Yasser Arafat&#39;s burial in the West Bank on Friday was as much for the Palestinians&#39; future as the passing of the man.
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The old guard was joined by some prominent younger militants of Fatah's Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, who once saw Marwan Barghouti, 45, as their leader.
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PARIS - The nephew of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat arrived today at Paris&#39; Charles de Gaulle airport from Cairo to pick up the deceased leader&#39;s medical records, an AFP journalist reported.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s half brother insisted Saturday the Palestinian people were entitled to know the cause of their leader&#39;s death, but Arafat&#39;s widow threatened a legal fight over the medical file in an ugly family tug-of-war.