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Kidnap Suspect Freed in Gaza After Deadly Border Clashes
The Palestinian security forces yesterday freed a militant leader whose arrest over the kidnapping of three Britons sparked a series of armed protests in the Gaza Strip, his faction said. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas meanwhile apologized for clashes Wednesday in which two Egyptian border guards were killed after the armed protesters bulldozed a concrete wall along the Gaza-Egypt border.
"Sorry 'bout dat..."
Alaa Al-Hams was released as part of a deal under which his Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades faction also agreed to halt its protests, said a spokesman for his cell of the militant group, which is an offshoot of Abbas’s own Fatah faction. “We have reached an agreement with the security services to cease all the protests,” the spokesman said.

Al-Aqsa gunmen stormed a string of government offices in the southern Gaza town of Rafah and then smashed down a concrete section of wall on the border with Egypt on Wednesday to protest Hams’ arrest over the abduction of British rights worker Kate Burton and her parents a week earlier.
Posted by: Fred 2006-01-06
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