Abbas rules out dialogue with Hamas 'killers'

Ramallah, West Bank, June 20 (Reuters) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today ruled out talks with Hamas Islamists, whom he accused of trying to assassinate him and of launching a coup in the Gaza Strip.

''No dialogue with those killers, coup plotters,'' Abbas told Fatah leaders in the West Bank. He accused Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Meshaal of being part of a plot to assassinate him.

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