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PM delays Fatah prisoner release over lack of gov't support

By Reuters

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert delayed a plan to release from prison scores of supporters of Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, officials said Saturday.

Olmert had planned to ask the cabinet on Sunday to release more prisoners, but the item was removed from the agenda amid fears it would not garner enough support, officials said. Plans to release more prisoners have already been delayed once.

"It's not coming up tomorrow. It's been put off because there is no agreed upon list," one government official said, asking not to be named.

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Prime Minister's Office spokesman David Baker said he did not have the agenda for Sunday's cabinet meeting.

Olmert told Abbas at a meeting on Monday he would ask his cabinet to approve the prisoner release as a goodwill gesture for the Ramadan fast month, which began this week, Palestinian officials said. Israel had been expected to free around 100 Fatah prisoners.

Israel has already freed more than 250 prisoners, mostly Fatah members, as part of a plan to bolster Abbas against Hamas, which seized control of Gaza in June.

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1.	Olmert- You`ve got your priorites backwards	22:30	\|	* BEN JABO	15/09/07

2.	ISRAELIS: YOUR PM IS YOUR ENEMY!!	23:04	\|	Ronald	15/09/07

3.	THOSE TO WHOM TRUST IS AN ALIEN CONCEPT	23:25	\|	Mohamed Malleck	15/09/07

4.	Olmert should be more interested in jews than muslims	23:35	\|	zionist forever	15/09/07

5.	Bravo for Cabinet Dissenters! Would this have released Shalit; NO	00:54	\|	Pavel	16/09/07

6.	THOSE TO WHOM TRUST IS AN ALIEN CONCEPT	01:05	\|	Sam	16/09/07

7.	2 percent ??	01:40	\|	JohnJ	16/09/07

8.	#1..Mohammed Malleck	05:09	\|	Nemesis	16/09/07

9.	releaseing	05:33	\|	colin	16/09/07

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11.	I would support the return of prisoners	20:53	\|	* BEN JABO	16/09/07

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