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Khaled Mardawi has blood on his hands. In 1992, in his West Bank home village near Nablus, the Hamas activist executed a man he suspected of collaborating with the Israelis. An Israeli court sentenced Mardawi to life in Block 8, the high-security wing of Shikma Prison, on the outskirts of the drab seaside town of Ashkelon on Israel's central plain. These days, Mardawi, a trim 40-year-old with a close-cropped gray beard, says he rejects violence. "We can't crush the Israelis and they can't crush us," he admits, sitting on a rough brown blanket...
...table as it is about ideology. Polls show Abbas winning 51% of the vote in a seven-man race. "The central issue in this campaign is to see who can make a difference for security and the economy," says Hisham Awartani, an economist at An-Najah University in Nablus. "Let's face it, only Abu Mazen has any answers...
...Institute of Politics today, and as you stand on the podium and look at the hundreds who have come to see you, I want you to know that amongst those eager to hear you is a young Palestinian who has parents and brothers in Ramallah, cousins in Nablus and aunts and uncles in Jenin and Gaza. This young man is me, and I believe that you, Mr. Peres, and I have so many things in common...
...profits went to P.A. officials and their connections, but it does accuse several companies, including some owned by the family of Civil Affairs Minister Jamil Tarifi, of profiting from the deal. Tarifi did not return calls requesting comment. Arafat has denounced the barrier, but Abdel Sattar Qassem, a Nablus academic who says he plans to file suit against politicians involved in the deal, says, "The scandal shows that all the Palestinian official statements against the wall are lies." --By Matt Rees and Jamil Hamad
...Palestinian market. The rest, the report charges, went to an Israeli company in Haifa. The report doesn't say how much of around $6 million in profits went to P.A. officials and their connections, but it does accuse several companies of profiting from the deal. Abdel Sattar Qassem, a Nablus academic who also plans to file a lawsuit this week against the politicians involved in the cement deal, says, if true, "The scandal shows that all the Palestinian official statements against the wall are lies." The Higher Islamic Council, the senior Palestinian religious body, issued a fatwa last month against...