Polls show imprisoned leader is a threat to main candidate in ...
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Polls published Monday showed that jailed Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti poses a serious threat to mainstream candidate Mahmoud Abbas in the Jan. 9 presidential election to replace Yasser Arafat.
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Two of the first opinion polls since nominations closed for the Palestinian presidential election show a tight race between the establishment candidate, Mahmoud Abbas, and the imprisoned military commander, Marwan Barghouti.
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MAXINE McKEW: The Palestinian leadership has been thrown into turmoil after jailed Fatah leader, Marwan Barghouti, announced his intention to enter the presidential campaign.
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Incident intensifies the threat of a violent sectarian split with the approach of elections that political leaders are struggling to salvage.
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Islamic militants in Indonesia have suffered a serious blow with the capture of the country's most-wanted man, Abu Dujana, but experts believe they are still capable of mounting attacks.
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Imprisoned Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti is a serious challenger to interim leader Mahmoud Abbas in the January 9 elections to replace Yasser Arafat, according to polls published on Monday.
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Ahead of elections on Sunday, the leader of Turkey's hard-line nationalists flung a hangman's noose from a podium to make a point: He thinks the prime minister is soft on terrorism and should hang the imprisoned leader of Kurdish rebels.
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As random selection placed registered entrants on a ballot that is expected to be several pages long, officials worried that violence aimed at preventing the election is surging.
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Many Afghans say they are more worried about a different source of abuse and intimidation during the presidential elections: pressure from local militia commanders to vote for certain candidates.
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Â· Party boss likely to face more corruption charges  Â· Case would hamper presidential ambitions
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Â· Concern about system strong among women Â· Detention is believed by many to create criminals
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President's victory celebrated before a ballot is cast, but dissent is met with imprisonment and intimidation.
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Â· President under attack for commuting jail sentence  Â· Spokesman will not say if Cheney spoke up for aide
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Â· Leadership candidate talks of taking risksÂ· Party 'must tackle fear and security issues'
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Pakistan's opposition parties put forward their jailed leader as candidate in a rubber-stamp parliamentary vote for prime minister against the ruling party candidate, ex-finance minister Shaukat Aziz.
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Marwan Barghouti, a leader of the Palestinian uprising jailed by Israel but perhaps the strongest candidate to oust Yasser Arafat's old guard of politicians, plans to run in upcoming presidential elections, a person close to Barghouti said Saturday.
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Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti is under mounting pressure to abandon his plan to run in the election for the chairmanship of the Palestinian Authority, as some of the faction&#39;s leaders called over the weekend for his expulsion from Fatah.