Palestinian lifer to run for top job
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A PALESTINIAN activist serving a life sentence in an Israeli jail, Marwan Barghouti, took centre stage in the Palestinian political drama yesterday when associates said he was planning to seek the presidency of the Palestinian Authority in elections to be
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Mahmoud Abbas, the new leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the man expected to be elected the new president of the Palestinian Authority, has been making
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By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent, and The Associated Press. Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) began his public bid to succeed the late Yasser Arafat at a rally
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - The jailed West Bank leader Marwan Barghuti has decided to run for the post of Palestinian Authority president, a member of the dominant Fatah faction&#39;s higher committee said.
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The foreign secretary aims for an end to conflict as he sets out to visit Palestinian leaders.
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Marwan Barghouti&#39;s wife announced Sunday that her husband, who is serving life sentence in an Israeli jail, may run for the Palestinian presidential elections slated for Jan. 9, 2005.
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The jailed leader of the Fatah movement in the West Bank, Marwan Barghouti, has joined the race to succeed Yasser Arafat as president of the Palestinian Authority in next month&#39;s election.
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The Palestinian elections were supposed to take place smoothly with one strong and realistic candidate, Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization in succession to the late Yasser Arafat, and a balanced competitor who
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Firebrand uprising leader Marwan Barghouthi has decided to run for Palestinian president from his Israeli jail cell, an official of his Fatah faction said on Thursday.
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Marwan Barghouti, a leader of the late Yasser Arafat&#39;s Fatah faction who is serving a life sentence in an Israeli jail, is registering to run for president of the Palestinian Authority.
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Fatah, the dominant Palestinian political faction, approved the former prime minister Thursday as its candidate to succeed Yasser Arafat in a presidential election set for Jan. 9.
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Middle East News, Jailed West Bank leader Marwan Al Barghouti decided to run for Palestinian president in January elections to succeed the late Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, a member of the dominant Fatah faction&#39;s higher committee said on Thursday.
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Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has said that he will be a candidate in the elections next month. The move has thrown the upcoming election into confusion, as it had seemed interim leader Mahmoud
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Marwan Barghouthi, a fiery Palestinian leader serving multiple life terms in an Israeli prison, indicated yesterday that he is running for Yasser Arafat's position as head of the Palestinian Authority, defying the traditional leadership and scrambling the political picture ahead of the Jan. 9 election.
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Jailed popular leader Marwan Barghouthi decided on Wednesday to run in a Palestinian presidential election and Hamas militants vowed to boycott it, throwing the campaign into turmoil after Yasser Arafat's death.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Elections for a new Palestinian president to replace Yasser Arafat have been scheduled for January 9, Palestinian officials say.
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Seven candidates running for Palestinian president, led by front-runner Mahmoud Abbas, kicked off a 15-day electoral campaign yesterday