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Nablus Police Try to Assert Authority

by Eric Westervelt, NPR
October 8, 2007

In an effort to strengthen Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian presidency, the United States and the European Union have backed a plan to deploy hundreds of police officers to the streets of the Nablus. But the police will have to reckon with armed militants and the Israeli army -– both major powers in the city.

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