File photo of Farouk Kadoumy, Dec 21, 2001. Farouk Kadoumy was named head of the mainstream Fatah movement on Thursday to succeed late leader Yasser Arafat. (Xinhua file photo)

Farouk Kadoumy was named head of the mainstream Fatah movement on Thursday to succeed late leader Yasser Arafat, a Palestinian official said.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee on Thursday.
Kadoumy was the PLO's Tunis-based politburo chief, a longtime Arafat confidant and a hardliner who has been a opponent of the 1993 Oslo peace accords.