BBC (Sunday): Gunmen break up Palestinian meet

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From the BBC Online
Dated Sunday August 1 21:39 GMT (2:39 pm PDT)

Gunmen break up Palestinian meet
By Paul Harper
BBC News

Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank have broken up a meeting of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement called to discuss Palestinian Authority reform.
Some 20 armed men fired into the air outside the meeting in Nablus, according to reports.
The meeting was being attended by Fatah members of the Palestinian parliament and senior officials from the movement.
There were no reports of casualties and calm was restored after the meeting was called off.
It seems the gunmen who succeeded in disrupting the meeting were Arafat loyalists, suspicious that a conspiracy was being hatched against their veteran leader.

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