Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia submits resignation

MSNBC ^ | 7/17/04

[Brian Mosely]

Linked to this article now.... Just breaking

[ScaniaBoy]

Is this related to the hostage taking yesterday?

[Brian Mosely]

Could be. The site is linking to an AP story about that very issue.

[Brian Mosely]

From AP story an hour ago

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBQ24AJRWD.html

The wave of abductions prompted two senior security officials in the Palestinian Authority to quit, although their resignations were rejected by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

"This is a true disaster," Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia said Saturday outside his offices in the West Bank city of Ramallah, shortly before meeting with Arafat. "This is a level of chaos that we have never seen before."

[Brian Mosely]

Palestinian PM submits resignation
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5434896

Arafat reportedly rejects Qureia's bid to step down
MSNBC News Services
Updated: 7:13 a.m. ET July 17, 2004GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia submitted his resignation Saturday to Yassar Arafat, plunging the Palestinian government into crisis, but Arafat rejected it, a top official said.



The resignation came as Qureia and Arafat discussed a shake-up of security forces amid a rapidly deteriorating crisis in the Gaza Strip. Six people, including the national police chief and four French charity workers, were briefly kidnapped in Gaza a day earlier.

"Prime Minister Qureia told us that he has submitted his resignation to President Arafat and he is going back to see Arafat now to tell him he is insisting on this resignation," legislator Nabil Amr told Reuters. Other legislators confirmed Amr's comments.

Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat said Qureia's decision "does not reflect differences" with Arafat.

"I believe President Arafat is not going to accept his resignation," Erekat told Reuters.

[SendShaqtoIraq]

It's OK to strap dynamite around the waist and kill several people, but by God, don't kidnap anybody.

[BB2]

I'm confused.

Prime Minister of what?

There is no country, State, of Palestine. All we have is a group of Arabs, that No other country wants to claim, that are trying to use murder, terrorism, and threats to steal a piece of the desert nobody wanted before Isreal made it worth something.

[MinuteGal]

If Arafat doesn't accept a resignation, and the resignee remains resigned, is there any sound in the forest?

Leni

[G.Mason]

Thanks a lot!

Now I'll be humming this song, in my head, all day. ;)

"Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'
You gotta have somethin'
If you wanna be with me"

[Written by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher]

[oscar2000]

I'm thinking that they will destroy themselves...?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Smart move. Hamas will kill you if they think you're getting out of line. You'll wind up like Yassin if you do what Hamas and the people want you to do. What a choice: get torture-murdered by a mob for being a "collaborator" or face Israel's early retirement plan.

[Diogenesis]

This is 100% made up by Arafat for his mainstream media proterrorist friends.

Pablum, absolute pablum.

Some of the "hostages", like Jabali, were photographed laughing
after their "release", absolutely positively proving this is another SCAM.

[traviskicks]

this is why the Bush admin won't deal with Arafat. The palestinians are colllapsing. They need a strong leader to get them to statehood.

[mewzilla]

Looks like the deluge is nigh...

[Lijahsbubbe]

Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat said Qureia's decision "does not reflect differences" with Arafat.

"I believe President Arafat is not going to accept his resignation," Erekat told Reuters

That appears to be a major difference.

[tomahawk]

The PA is a cesspool of terrorist scum.

[germanicus]

This is a level of chaos that we have never seen before

They really need to bring this back down to the normal sustainable level of chaos that they're used to.

[Grampa Dave]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBQ24AJRWD.html

"The wave of abductions prompted two senior security officials in the Palestinian Authority to quit, although their resignations were rejected by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

"This is a true disaster," Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia said Saturday outside his offices in the West Bank city of Ramallah, shortly before meeting with Arafat. "This is a level of chaos that we have never seen before."

Thanks for this good news!

These PA elite Islamofascists are really brave when they send teenagers to blow up innocent Jews. Their coward nature is seen in this example. When the elites are killed or kidnapped, they want to run.

May the IDF kill or kidnap everyone who is a so called PA leader!

I'm sure that the new leaders of the Free Iraqis will be doing the samething against home grown and foriegn Islamofascists.

Please kill all of them over there to make the world safer!

[yonif]

So what. Another terrorist resigns and another "prime minister" will take his place. The whole PA is a terrorist regime, so it won't matter who heads what in it.