Palestinian forces enter Jordan under U.S. program
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ALLENBY BRIDGE, West Bank  - The first battalion of Palestinian security forces crossed into Jordan on Thursday to begin training under a U.S. program after nearly a year-long delay.
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Israel is to deploy a specialist unit to take over  manning some West Bank and Gaza checkpoints.
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Israeli soldiers patrol as Palestinian presidential candidate Bassam Salhi, center, from the People&#39;s Party tours the center of the West Bank city of Hebron, Sunday, Dec. 26, 2004.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, under growing pressure to rein in militants, ordered his security forces yesterday to prevent attacks on Israel and investigate a deadly shooting of Israeli civilians last week.
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RIYADH/JEDDAH, 10 December 2004 - As normality hesitantly returned to the US Consulate neighborhood in Jeddah, a specialist team of US Marines arrived yesterday in the Red Sea city to beef up security at the consulate.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - The United States and Arab allies sent military aid to Lebanon on Friday and the Lebanese army deployed extra troops to a Palestinian camp where it has been battling Islamist militants this week.
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presidential election to choose Arafat&#39;s successor, arrived in Israel after a surprise visit to Iraq on Tuesday. Mahmoud Abbas -- frontrunner in next month&#39;s poll -- and Ahmed Qurie.
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GAZA, JanGAZA, Jan. 26  - Palestinian  security forces began deploying in southern Gaza Wednesday to  halt militant attacks on Israelis under orders from new  moderate President Mahmoud Abbas, witnesses said.
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QALQILYA, West Bank  - Shouts of joy from excited  schoolboys greeted the arrival of an Israeli convoy on its  entry to a Palestinian town where visitors from the Jewish  state are usually soldiers searching for militants.
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Jordan introduces new regulations making it more difficult for Iraqi refugees to enter its territory.
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AMMAN, Jordan -- President Jalal Talabani of Iraq arrived in Jordan for medical tests yesterday after suffering low blood pressure, Jordanian and Iraqi officials said.
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The Bush administration has decided to ask the U.S. Congress for funds aimed at bolstering security forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, sources with knowledge of the plan said on Wednesday.
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RAMALLAH, WEST BANK - Yasser Arafat is about to leave his compound in the West Bank for the first time in two and a half years. Two helicopters from Jordan were expected to arrive in Ramallah late Thursday
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Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Jordan on Sunday in an attempt to seek international support for January&#39;s landmark elections.
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The military operation around the town of Beit Hanoun and the Jebalya refugee camp near Gaza City came amid reports that Palestinian militants fired rockets into Israel.
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NABLUS, West Bank, Jan. 3 -- Israeli forces launched military operations in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank early Thursday, hours before a Katyusha rocket fired from Gaza crashed down harmlessly near the Israeli city of Ashkelon.
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The Palestinian Authority and PLO leadership decided on Sunday to implement a security plan which was prepared months ago in coordination with the Americans, despite the lack of security infrastructure, PA National Security Adviser Jibril Rajoub told The