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Hamas Prepares to Present Cabinet
(UPI) Joshua Brilliant - The radical Islamic Hamas movement is likely to present its cabinet next week and it seems the nationalist Fatah, which led the PA in the last decade, is not going to join it, said a senior Hamas source. The PA security services might formally come under a Hamas minister of interior, but 82% of its 70,000 members voted Fatah. "They are loyal to Fatah, not Hamas," Palestinian pollster Khalil Shikaki told the Dayan Center in Tel Aviv. Some 70,000 bureaucrats, including the PA's senior bureaucracy, include Fatah loyalists and any Hamas attempt to dismiss them would "most likely be confronted by violence from Fatah," he added. Nor can Hamas dissolve Fatah's militia, he noted.