(Sound) Senior Hamas official Ahmad Bahar told a news conference in Gaza that Mr.Abbas's rule is illegitimate and he has no authority to declare elections.
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Mr Roberts is so concerned about the diminishing role for history in the school curriculum that heis holding a national conference to discuss the issue in the autumn.
He acknowledged that there is a resistance to it, but he repeatedly today, in his press conference, made the argument that this is meant to stop the terrorism that has hit Baghdad, especially in the last couple of weeks, and that it's not meant to prevent Iraqis from living their lives.