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| By: Associated Press |
| Published: January 22, 2006 |
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The upcoming Palestinian parliament election is a major step toward Palestinian statehood, uprising leader Marwan Barghouti said Sunday in his first TV interview from an Israeli prison.
Wearing a brown prison uniform with Hebrew lettering on the front shirt pocket, Barghouti told the Arab satellite TV station Al Jazeera that he hopes the vote will produce "a national reform government that enjoys a wide popular and parliamentary base."
Barghouti is the top candidate for Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party, which is fighting off a strong electoral challenge from the Islamic militant Hamas.
In the excerpt run by Al Jazeera, Barghouti did not mention Fatah by name. He said Palestinians would be honoring their "martyrs" by casting their votes, then named the late Yasser Arafat as well as Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in 2004. |
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