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Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0309010187sep01,1,3941261.story
Arafat, Abbas Clash Over Firing of Commissioner
(Chicago Tribune) - The men with guns were everywhere in the Palestinian civil service building in Gaza City Sunday. The gunmen were supporters of Arafat, members of his Fatah movement, and they had arrived to block a decision by the Cabinet of Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas to dismiss the civil service commissioner, Mohammad Abu Sharia, for corruption. The confrontation over control of the 70,000-strong civil service captured the essence of the clash between Abbas and Arafat, between attempts at reform and old habits of political patronage and militia rule.