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| Hamas Orders Reopening of Gaza News Agency |
| 2013-11-17 |
| [An Nahar] The Gazoo Strip's Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, prime minister on Saturday ordered the reopening of a Paleostinian news agency closed in July for alleged "false" reporting of Hamas aid to Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund. "Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... ordered reopening Maan (agency) from tomorrow morning," government front man Ihab al-Hussein told AFP. The decision was taken at a meeting between Haniyeh and Paleostinian faction leaders to discuss renewing unity talks. Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... 's Fatah movement was not represented at the meeting. Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... delegate Khaled al-Batsh said that at the start of the talks he asked Haniyeh to reopen Maan and the local offices of Saudi-owned pan-Arab TV channel Al-Arabiya, which were closed on the same day. Batsh told Agence La Belle France Presse that Haniyeh made no immediate decision on Al-Arabiya but that the factions would pursue the matter with him on Sunday. At the time of the closure a Maan staffer and a Hamas official told AFP the agency's Gazoo office was being temporarily shut for a report -- citing Israeli sources -- saying that Hamas gave refuge in a Gazoo hotel to runaway leaders of the Egyptian Moslem Brüderbund. Saudi-owned pan-Arab channel Al-Arabiya did not reveal the reasons for its office closure. Morsi, a veteran Moslem Brüderbund leader who went on to become Egypt's first freely elected president, was toppled in a military coup on July 3. Since then, hundreds of his supporters have been killed and some 2,000 Islamists have been rounded up a in a military crackdown. On July 14, Egyptian Sherlocks began questioning Morsi and members of his Moslem Brüderbund over their escape from jail during the 2011 uprising that put them in power. The enquiry relates to the escape by Morsi and dozens of Brotherhood members from Wadi Natrun prison during the revolt that ended former president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... 's three-decade rule. An Egyptian court in June said the Islamist Hamas rulers of Gazoo and Leb's Shiite Hezbollah movement helped prisoners escape. Hamas is the Paleostinian chapter of the Moslem Brüderbund, which has branches across the Middle East. In its coverage of the Egyptian upheaval, Al-Arabiya has aired live footage of anti-Morsi protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square and called the coup that overthrew him a "second revolution." |
| Posted by:Fred |