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Africa North
Egypt releases Hamas official detained at Cairo airport
2015-08-21
[AlAhram] Egypt will allow a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, official detained two days ago at Cairo airport for problems with his paperwork to return to Gazoo, security sources said on Wednesday.

Egyptian authorities on Monday stopped Hassan Asseify, the deputy religious affairs minister in Hamas-ruled Gazoo, on his way back from Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
 to the Paleostinian enclave after airport security found him not approved to enter Egypt, security sources said on Tuesday.

Asseify will be allowed to leave Egypt for Gazoo within hours, following "intensive contact" between Hamas officials and Egyptian security agencies, security sources said on Wednesday.
So on he goes, perhaps stripped of the several suitcases of Saudi cash he was no doubt carrying, a reminder that life in Gaza depends on Egyptian permission to continue... while allowing the lads back home to play with Ansar Bayt al Maqdis is the surest way to get that permission revoked again.
Hamas has long had ties to the Egyptian Moslem Brüderbund that was ousted from power when former president Mohammed Morsi was tossed in 2013 after mass protests against his rule.

The Egyptian government has accused Hamas of helping Islamist forces of Evil in Egypt's Sinai desert, which borders on Gazoo, to attack its security forces. Hamas denies this.

A decision by an Egyptian court in June to cancel a previous ruling labelling Hamas a terrorist group raised speculation that relations between Egypt and Hamas may improve.
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