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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas Launches Own Official News Agency
2013-02-12
[An Nahar] The Islamist movement Hamas which rules Gaza has set up its own news agency, called Al Rai (Opinion), the Palestinian territory's Hamas government announced on Monday.

"The first official news agency of the (Hamas) government has been established under the name of Al-Rai agency...under the supervision of the government information office," the office's director Salameh Maaruf told Agence France Presse.

"It will be an important source of information on government activities, news releases and letters from the (Gaza) prime minister," Ismail Haniya, he said.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Will Farfour be doing the Weather?
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2013-02-12 14:12  

#2  What?

ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/etc... aren't enough? They need another one?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2013-02-12 05:27  

#1  "The first official news agency of the (Hamas) government has been established under the name of Al-Rai agency...under the supervision of the government information office,"

Our own MSM certainly proves the "gov't information office" supervisory model works. Best of luck to them. Helen Thomas grins affectionately.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-02-12 03:56  

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