BREAKING! Palestinian Prime Minister Abbas Resigns

[veganwitch]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20030906/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians

RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, increasingly unpopular and worn out by a power struggle with Yasser Arafat (news - web sites), resigned Saturday. Within hours, Israel bombed a Gaza City building where top Hamas leaders were meeting, lightly wounding the group's founder.

Arafat told lawmakers in a meeting later Saturday that Abbas now heads a caretaker government, implying that he had accepted the resignation. However, some Palestinian officials said that for that acceptance to become formal, Arafat would have to send a letter to Abbas — which he had not done.


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holy shit!

[Darranar]

1. Holy shit indeed...

the road map was dying, and now it's dead.

[underpants]

2. I watched football all day yesterday WOW what a bombshell this morning

This is not good for anyone IMHO. I guess those calls to Arafat need to start being made. Damn seems like nothing W wants or does DOESN'T come back to smack him in the face.

I belive the phrase going around is "miserable disaster".

[trapper914]

3. I can't wait...

...to make the wingnuts eat their words. They chastised Clinton for attempting to work with Arafat. Now Bush will have to try.

[underpants]

5. Powell on MTP said that the new PM has not been determined yet

So they are going to do whatever they can to not deal with Arafat or at least make it look like they aren't.

[Nlighten1]

4. He got out before he got killed...

smart guy...