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Under Arafat's gaze.(Inside Track)( Yasser Arafat)
President Bush's eight-day Middle East tour in January included a three-day visit to Israel and the PLO-controlled West Bank, currently under the government of PLO-Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas. During his various press conferences and appearances with Abbas and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, President Bush found himself repeatedly speaking beneath the smiling countenance of Yasser Arafat, whose portrait appeared to be everywhere. Arafat, the world's most recognizable terrorist before the arrival of Osama bin Laden, died in 2004 after running the Palestine Liberation Organization for nearly five decades.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Under Arafat's gaze.(Inside Track)( Yasser Arafat)