Tag Archives: Abu Mazen

What does this mean?

By Syndicated News | Published: April 4, 2010
Ma’an News Agency has reported that “President Mahmoud Abbas [Abu Mazen] issued a decree on Sunday banning all violations of privacy and personal freedoms, following the results of a Palestinian Authority inquiry into corruption allegations against his former chief of staff. ‘In light of the report handed over by the inquiry commission into the [...]
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Biden meets Abu Mazen in Ramallah

By Syndicated News | Published: March 10, 2010
American Vice-President Joe Biden was received with red carpet treatment at the Palestinian Presidential Headquarters in the Muqata’a in Ramallah today — by polite and mildly-friendly Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and an irritated and angry, even sullen, Palestinian negotiating team. As Biden was leaving the Muqata’a more than three hours later, Yasser Abed Rabbo (Secretary of [...]
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Abu Mazen is back in Ramallah

By Syndicated News | Published: February 15, 2010
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) is now back in Ramallah after a visit to several Asian countries. President Abbas presided over a government meeting this morning which ratified the new program by the new Palestinian Authority (PA) Minister of Economy, Haasan Abu Libdeh (who was in charge of the Palestine Investment Conference held in Bethlehem [...]
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Abbas suspends Rafiq Husseini for “sex + corruption” affair – orders “investigation”.

By Syndicated News | Published: February 14, 2010
It has just been announced in Ramallah that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has apparently suspended (not fired) his Chef de Cabinet Rafiq Husseini, and established an investigation committee headed by the Fatah No. 2, Abu Maher Ghneim, in the wake of the all-too-public release of a “sex + corruption” videotape featuring Husseini. [...]
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