Taha Yassin Ramadan, the former vice-president of Iraq was sentenced to life in prison.
Out went Anwar loyalist Muhyiddin Yassin, top VP in '93, but now dogged by allegations of bribery.
Now, with Mr Yassin's death, Mr Qurei's hopes of a ceasefire seem dashed.
The arrested man was named as Yassin Hassan Omar, a Somalian-born man sought in connection with the Warren Street attack.
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On Thursday, America vetoed a proposed resolution presented by Arab countries to the UN Security Council, condemning Mr Yassin's assassination.
Investigative journalist Yassin Musharbash, a reporter with the German newspaper Die Zeit, was the first to report on the documents.
On October 26th, both Sheikh Yassin and Mr Qurei signalled that they were preparing to start talks on a restored truce.
America has denied accusations by some Palestinian groups that it had been involved in, or had advance knowledge of, Mr Yassin's assassination.
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This was scotched late last month when Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Hamas's spiritual leader, returned to Gaza from his triumphant tour round Arab capitals.
Adil Muhammed al-Zubaidi, who represented former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, was fatally shot November 8 in an attack that left another lawyer wounded.
Khaled Meshaal - Hamas' politburo chief living in exile - was declared the group's overall leader after Sheikh Yassin was killed in an Israeli missile strike.
Born in 1938 in what was then Palestine under the British mandate, Sheikh Yassin's political views were forged at a time of humiliation and defeat for Palestinians.
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Adil Muhammed al-Zubaidi, who was representing former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, was shot to death on November 8 in an attack that left another lawyer wounded.
Already before his death, Yassin indicated there was potential for political co-ordination - although not field co-operation - between Palestinian militant groups and those in Lebanon and Iraq.
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He singles out Menachem Begin, the late Israeli prime minister, and blames him for the events at Deir Yassin, a Palestinian Arab village where the killings of civilians occurred in 1948.
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On October 23rd, Palestinian security forces in Gaza briefly arrested ten Palestinian journalists and an American correspondent for Newsweek who had been trying to get Sheikh Yassin's reaction to the Wye accord.
Safia Yassin Farah is 34 and her desk is that of a high-flying executive anywhere in the world, except that the view from her office is of high walls, wire and armed guards.
Sheikh Yassin's other priority is Palestinian unity.
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