Interim Palestinian leader and the front-runner in

Interim Palestinian leader and the front-runner in the upcoming presidential elections Mahmoud Abbas, participates in a mass inside the Church of Nativity, believed to be the birth place of Jesus Christ according to Christian tradition, during the Orthodox Christmas Eve procession in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, early Friday, Jan. 7 , 2005. Palestinians go to the polls Sunday Jan. 9 to elect a succesor to the late Yasser Arafat . (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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