A militia linked to Yasser Arafat’s mainstream Fatah movement urged him to dismantle the government of Mahmoud Abbas. In demands appearing in a London-based Arabic newspaper, the Al-Aksa Brigade also called for Palestinian Authority security chief Mohammed Dahlan to cut security ties with the Israeli government.
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