04.03.2011                      28.Adar l, 5771

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Senior Fatah officials demand Abbas sack Fayyad

Letter sent to PA president and backed by Fatah's central revolutionary council asks that PM be replaced with "strong Fatah figure."

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' dominant Fatah political faction has demanded that he sack Western-backed Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, according to a letter shown to Reuters on Thursday.
The letter, signed by senior Fatah officials, was sent to Abbas on Saturday, but the president "did not take it seriously", a Fatah official told Reuters….