Abbas Apologizes to Kuwait for 1990 PLO Stand
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Mahmoud Abbas, on the first visit by a top PLO official to Kuwait in 14 years, apologized to the Gulf state for the Palestine Liberation Organization&#39;s failure to condemn Iraq&#39;s 1990 invasion of its small neighbor.
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Mahmoud Abbas, newly-named chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), on Sunday escaped unharmed from an exchange of fire which he insisted was the result of a feud
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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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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat attends a PLO executive committee meeting at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah in this Sunday, Aug. 22, 2004 file photo.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in his first speech since Islamist Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, said on Wednesday there could be no reconciliation with a group he described as "traitors".
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Israel cut off contacts with the Palestinians before Mahmoud Abbas raised his hand to take the oath. Still, in a brief ceremony, Mr. Abbas tried to strike a conciliatory note.
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Arab newspaper highlighted and commented on PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas&#39; apology to Kuwait for the Palestinian position on Iraq&#39;s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, angered by what it saw as the PLO&#39;s support of the invasion.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank - Yasser Arafat acknowledged Wednesday that the Palestinian Authority had made "mistakes," but the rare admission appeared to be aimed more at deflecting criticism about his corrupt government than making real changes.    In a decade at the helm of the Palestinian Authority, Arafat has resisted attempts to get him to fight official corruption, reform the security services and relinquish some of his near-absolute powers...
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KUWAIT CITY -- Palestinian leader Mahmound Abbas apologized to Kuwaitis on Sunday for Palestinian support of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein after his army invaded Kuwait in 1990, making the long-awaited remarks on the first leg of a Middle East tour
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Over the years, Yasser Arafat was the subject of some pretty bad jokes. When he returned to the Gaza Strip in triumph in 1994 after the PLO signed the Oslo peace accords with Israel, Palestinians
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The use of weapons in the four-year-long intifada was a mistake and should end, Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday in an interview with the London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the interim Palestinian leader, said in an interview published Tuesday that the armed struggle against Israel was a mistake and should end.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas tells official media to stop broadcasting material inciting hatred against Israel.
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The chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, today offered a rare admission that he had made mistakes, but his vague contrition angered Palestinian politicians who have been calling for reform and tougher anti-corruption measures.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh   of Hamas accused British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Saturday   of "one-sided" policies that have punished the Palestinian   people and their elected government.
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West Bank: New PLO chairman Mahmud Abbas called for an end to the armed uprising, as Israeli tanks Tuesday rolled into Gaza in the aftermath of the most lethal Palestinian attack since Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas denounced Israel as the "Zionist enemy" Tuesday &#151; his harshest language yet on the campaign trail &#151; after Israeli tank shells slammed into a strawberry patch, killing seven Palestinians, many of them children.