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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