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Successor `not compromised by terror` may be hard to find

If the Middle East cycle of violence is to end, President Bush says the answer lies in new Palestinian leadership to replace Yasser Arafat. Yet those four leading candidates — Palestinian Assembly Speaker Ahmed Qurei, Arafat deputy Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah militia leader Marwan Barghouti and former Gaza security chief Mohammed Dahlan — may not meet Bush`s test of being “not compromised by terror.” Full Story