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Egypt MP: We won't let Hamas form an Islamic emirate in Gaza
By News Agencies
Tags: Hamas, Israel News, Egypt 

A ranking Egyptian official on Wednesday lashed out at Hamas, saying the militant Palestinian group won't be allowed to set up an Islamic emirate in the Gaza Strip, the coastal territory which it controls.

Mustafa el-Fiqi, who heads the Egyptian Parliament's foreign relations committee, said Egypt wouldn't tolerate an Islamic state on its eastern border.

Egypt is increasingly displeased with Hamas - especially after it boycotted Egypt-mediated Palestinian reconciliation talks in Cairo last month.
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El-Fiqi's comments Wednesday indicate that Egypt plans to continue efforts to isolate the Gaza Strip.

Hamas security frees three reporters in Gaza
Hamas security forces freed three Palestinian journalists on Wednesday whom they had arrested last month under accusations that they had fabricated news critical of the Islamist group, officials said.

The journalists worked in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip for the Palestine Press, a local news agency with ties to the group's main rival, President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction.

A Hamas internal security official said the three men were released after they confessed that they had "fabricated reports" critical of the Hamas cabinet and its security forces.

One of the journalists, speaking to reporters and human rights officials -- as Hamas security men stood nearby -- said after their release: "We made a mistake and it won't be repeated."

The Hamas security official said the release followed "intense intervention by fellow journalists" who appealed to the group's leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh.

Since Hamas routed Fatah forces in Gaza last year, activists had traded accusations of persecution. The Islamist group says several Hamas-affiliated journalists have been imprisoned by security forces loyal to Abbas in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
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  1.   WOW!! this is a surprise!!! 19:30  |  Akiva P 03/12/08
  2.   WHAT? NO OUTRAGE? 19:49  |  Arie 03/12/08
  3.   Egypt`s military dictatorship fears all "Islamic states" 20:00  |  Clickfool 03/12/08
  4.   All this is predictable - only in closed surreal world of this TB 20:14  |  17 03/12/08
  5.   #3. Clickfool 20:51  |  Stephen. 03/12/08
  6.   Clickfool, quick question 20:52  |  David G 03/12/08
  7.   looking forward to see how democratic Hamas really is 21:00  |  David G 03/12/08
  8.   For Stephen # 5 21:50  |  Clickfool 03/12/08
  9.   David G 22:03  |  Peter Williams 03/12/08
  10.   Egypt won`t tolerate an Islamic state? 22:06  |  Peter Williams 03/12/08
  11.   Is this the voice of the government or the people? 22:30  |  Palestinian Brit 03/12/08
  12.   CFOOL Pals chose a war government. 22:35  |  PETER SM 03/12/08
  13.   For #8, Clickfool 23:07  |  Dan 03/12/08
  14.   CFOOL 1 man,1 vote,1 time.Life President Arafat the Egyptian . 23:27  |  PETER SM 03/12/08
  15.   Egypt seem to have more seichel than Israel 00:04  |  harvey 04/12/08
  16.   #8 clickfool 01:29  |  Sol 04/12/08
  17.   If an Israeli said that 01:46  |  Arie 04/12/08
  18.   Click`s Democracy 05:04  |  Jasper 04/12/08
  19.   "Egypt won`t tolerate an Islamic state" 09:01  |  Hastaroth 04/12/08
  20.   Well, isn`t that special! 09:19  |  Angel 04/12/08
  21.   #12, PETER SM, lies again 10:56  |  VIPER 04/12/08
  22.   polticians talking out of the arse again 10:58  |  VIPER 04/12/08
  23.   Progress! 09:10  |  Magnus K. 06/12/08
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