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...Once Haniyeh had secured the militants? accord, he notified Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who passed on the offer to the Israelis. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was told that if he pulled troops out of Gaza, the Palestinian militants would halt their rocket fire. For Palestinians and Israelis, the truce offered a respite from a brutal and inconclusive mess in Gaza. In last week?s offensive, over 30 tanks rolled into Gaza, and Israeli forces used aircraft to fire missiles killing suspected Palestinian commanders. The Palestinians tried to counter this assault by sending a swarm of civilians to the house...
...MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran, explaining that he expects his country's uranium-enrichment program to be ready by March...
...professor's acquaintance with virulent strains of bacteria may prove useful in dealing with warring Palestinian organisms - notably the Fatah movement led by President Mahmoud Abbas and the Islamist miitants of outgoing Prime Minister Ismael Haniyah's Hamas, who has recently as weeks ago were on the verge of open civil war. All that changed after the Israeli forces sliced into Gaza last month in an effort to stop militants launching homemade rockets at Israel. The incursion forced Hamas and Fatah gunmen who had been eyeing each other warily on Gaza street corners to once again confront a common enemy...
...Time featured the Peacemakers as Persons of the Year. This year I nominate the Peacebreakers: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and, sadly, U.S. President George W. Bush. These figures are feared around the world because of their words and actions...
...Another casualty may have been the proposed unity government agreement between the Fatah organization of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Islamist militants of Hamas, led by Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh. Following the shelling, the two sides broke off talks to form a technocrat-led coalition government that would temper Hamas's militancy and allow international donors to lift their embargo on funds and most aid to the Palestinian territories...