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Hamas leader hails Saudi reconciliation talks
[Al Arabiya Latest] Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said on Sunday the Islamist group was in the final stages of achieving reconciliation with the rival Palestinian Fatah party after he met Saudi Arabian officials to try to narrow the rift.

"We achieved great strides towards achieving reconciliation," Meshaal told reporters at the foreign ministry during a visit to the Saudi capital. "We are in the final stages now."
For a given definition of "final stages" that means "not anywhere close".
An Egyptian proposal to promote reconciliation between Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah group has called for presidential and legislative elections to be held in the West Bank and Gaza Strip next June.
Posted by: Fred 2010-01-04
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=287108