Ramallah, Oct 07: Yasser Arafat swore in new Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and a skeleton emergency cabinet today in a move likely to make it more difficult for Israel to carry out its threat to ''remove'' the Palestinian leader. Arafat declared a state of emergency in the Palestinian areas and abruptly named the eight-member cabinet on Sunday night a day after a suicide bombing in the Israeli city of Haifa killed 19 people. The bombing led to new demands for Israel to carry through on its threat to “remove” Arafat.
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