Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Jailed Palestinian wins top Fatah post:

Maybe the problem with the Palestinians , Is that they fail to realize how to run a " Government " , Electing a man to a post who is in prison for life ? Protests against Israel to release this man to Follow ...


BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - Marwan Barghouthi, jailed for life in Israel on charges of organizing the killing of Jews, was elected to a top post in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah group on Tuesday, initial results showed.

But former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie, a top negotiators during the 1993 Palestinian-Israeli Oslo peace deal and latterly in peace talks with Israel, surprisingly lost his seat.

"This is an unexpected result. It's a big change, a huge change," said Naser al-Kidwa, the nephew of late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, who also won a Central Committee seat.
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