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| Hamas leader 'receives Shalit letter' |
| 2008-09-06 |
| (AKI) - Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Meshal has received a letter from the father of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and has vowed he will give it to the soldier, Qatari newspaper al-Rai reported on Friday. I predict that's gonna do precisely squat. Shalit's father Noam told Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post he had no comment regarding the delivery of the letter, but said he had high-level contacts with the French Government. The Jerusalem Post said it could not confirm the Qatari reports. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy gave the letter to Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani earlier this week during his visit to Syria and asked the emir to give it to Meshal, according to an official source within Sarkozy's entourage quoted by Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot. The Jerusalem Post quoted a French source who said that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad had assured Sarkozy he would press Meshal to keep up contact with Shalit's abductors over a prisoner swap. Shalit was kidnapped by Hamas-linked militants on 25 June, 2006 in a cross-border raid from the Gaza Strip. He has dual French-Israeli citizenship. |
| Posted by:Fred |