Abbas 'will not fight militants'
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Mahmoud Abbas, tipped to become the new Palestinian president, says he will not fight against militant groups.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas faces  a crucial test of his new leadership on Tuesday when he visits  Gaza to try to persuade militants defying his calls for calm to  agree to cease attacks on Israel.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will  demand obedience from militant factions in talks Friday after  fighters bombarded Jewish settlements in Gaza despite a  cease-fire declared at a summit with Israel.
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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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Hamas rejected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's call for the deployment of international troops in the Gaza Strip, vowing on Saturday to attack them like other "occupation forces".
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Description: Jailed Palestinian Marwan Barghouti opts not to run in next January&#39;s presidential election, throwing his support behind former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, who has been nominated by the ruling Fateh movement.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Presidential frontrunner  Mahmoud Abbas appeared on Thursday to reject coordinating with  Israel on a plan that means quitting occupied Gaza while  keeping large chunks of the West Bank.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will  refuse to meet Mahmoud Abbas until the new Palestinian leader  moves against militant groups behind an attack that killed six  Israelis in Gaza, Sharon's spokesman said on Friday.
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MAHMOUD Abbas, who is virtually certain to be chosen as the new Palestinian leader in elections next month, voiced his opposition to the Palestinian uprising in an interview this week and declared it must stop.
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Palestinian fighters wounded 12 soldiers  in a rocket attack on Israel Wednesday, ignoring calls for a  cease-fire from Mahmoud Abbas, the frontrunner to succeed  Yasser Arafat in Sunday elections.
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Palestinian militants signaled on Sunday  they would help maintain calm in Gaza for at least a month but  denied Israeli reports they had agreed to a cease-fire at the  behest of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Islamic militant groups behind many suicide bombings dismissed yesterday a call from Mahmoud Abbas, the interim Palestinian leader, to halt attacks in the run-up to a Jan. 9 election to replace Yasser Arafat.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on  Wednesday vowed a crackdown on armed groups operating in  Palestinian areas in order to smooth the way to a Jan. 9  presidential election for a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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The Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, vowed Wednesday to crack down on armed groups operating in Palestinian areas in preparation for the scheduled Jan. 9 presidential election for a successor to Yasir Arafat.
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Ramallah - Presidential election frontrunner Mahmud Abbas urged Palestinians to abandon the armed intifada on Sunday, saying that independence could only be achieved through peaceful means.
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GAZA CITY: Palestinian hard-liners rejected Wednesday a call by new PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas to lay down their weapons as a spiraling death toll in Gaza threatened to undermine his efforts to bring calm to the region.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President   Mahmoud Abbas will not travel to Gaza on Tuesday as planned to   try to revive talks with Hamas on forming a unity government,   his spokesman said on Monday.