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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Kidnap Suspect Freed in Gaza After Deadly Border Clashes
2006-01-06
The Palestinian security forces yesterday freed a militant leader whose arrest over the kidnapping of three Britons sparked a series of armed protests in the Gaza Strip, his faction said. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas meanwhile apologized for clashes Wednesday in which two Egyptian border guards were killed after the armed protesters bulldozed a concrete wall along the Gaza-Egypt border.
"Sorry 'bout dat..."
Alaa Al-Hams was released as part of a deal under which his Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades faction also agreed to halt its protests, said a spokesman for his cell of the militant group, which is an offshoot of Abbas’s own Fatah faction. “We have reached an agreement with the security services to cease all the protests,” the spokesman said.

Al-Aqsa gunmen stormed a string of government offices in the southern Gaza town of Rafah and then smashed down a concrete section of wall on the border with Egypt on Wednesday to protest Hams’ arrest over the abduction of British rights worker Kate Burton and her parents a week earlier.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Perhaps anticipated... Pull out unilaterally and "let them sweat in their own juices" (attribution escapes me - Israeli politician)

Interesting to watch it happen.
Posted by: Hupomoger Clans9827   2006-01-06 19:12  

#5  Who to root for? That's the question

why not mutual destruction?
Posted by: Frank G   2006-01-06 14:17  

#4  Sad to say, but I'm gonna enjoy watching the civil war.

Who to root for? That's the question.
Posted by: mojo   2006-01-06 13:24  

#3  Ah, but Scooter, in the Good Old Days The various armed groups took their orders from Arafat himself, just as did the "politicians". Those that weren't clever enough to obey -- right smartly -- generally didn't get a chance to learn from their mistakes. However, in these degenerate times that sad excuse for a terror monger Abu Abbas pretends to be in charge, but all he is capable of is limply shaking hands and apologizing after the fact.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-01-06 07:34  

#2  I still can't forgive Paleos for missing the opportunity to make a decapitation video.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-01-06 05:25  

#1  It looks to me like they've got it all backwards. Al Aqsa M.B. isn't the militant offshoot of Fatah. Fatah is the political faction of Al Aqsa M.B.! Just look at who gives the orders, and who obeys. That says it all. The Al Aqsa gunnies run the show, and Abbas is their toady.

Effin' sub-human savages.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder   2006-01-06 00:46  

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