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Sharon released from hospital after stroke
(AP)
Updated: 2005-12-20 22:07
A smiling Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was released from the hospital on
Tuesday after suffering a mild stroke and said he was fit and in a hurry to get
back to work.
Sharon returned to the fray just hours after his bitter rival, Benjamin
Netanyahu, won the race to replace him as head of the battered Likud Party.
Sharon quit the hardline Likud last month because it resisted his plan to move
forward on a peace deal with Palestinians.
Sharon's illness raised questions about his ability to lead his new centrist
party, Kadima, into March elections, and then lead the country for a third term
if he is elected. But he shrugged off those concerns.
"Now I have to rush back to work," Sharon told reporters as he left
Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital. Asked if the stroke affected his performance, he
replied: "I don't think it will affect my functioning."
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