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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (12693)	2/14/2006 10:17:28 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

so the egyptians are supporting fatah, not hamas. Make up your mind. Its one thing to play both ends against the middle but a half dozen ends is impossible. Have the egyptians been exporting hashish to the home of H2O stevie?

To: Scoobah who wrote (12693)	2/14/2006 10:20:14 AM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Abbas, a smart politician? DEBKAfile DEBKAfile Exclusive: Leading Hamas candidate for Palestinian premier is Sheik Adnan Asfur from Hebron February 13, 2006, 1:09 PM (GMT+02:00) According to our Palestinian sources, the Islamic terrorist group will pick a prime minister from among its West Bank leaders to bypass Israeli restrictions on Palestinian movement from the Gaza Strip to Ramallah for the opening session of the newly-elected legislative council Saturday, Feb. 18. Asfur is reputed to be a reasonable and able executive. Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas took advantage of the last day of his own Fatah majority Monday, Feb. 13, to push through the parting session of the outgoing legislature a series of measures which incoming Hamas deputies describe as a “white revolution.” In their words, “An illegal session carried illegal measures.” They accused him of seizing the prerogative for drumming up a constitutional crisis in a few months’ time, sacking the Hamas government and dissolving the legislature. Hamas promised to annul these measures when its 74 members take their seats for the first time in the new house next Saturday. But, according to DEBKAfile’s Palestinian sources, Hamas lacks the two-thirds majority in the 132-seat house to annul Abbas’s draconian legislation. The measures endorsed would weaken the authority of the Hamas-ruled governmental and parliament and top up the powers of the presidency: 1. A constitution court of nine judges all Abbas loyalists was established. It is competent to arbitrate in disputes over the distribution of powers among the president, government and legislature. The tribunal may disqualify basic laws, dissolve parliament and call new elections. 2. The outgoing parliament created the appointments of civil service commissioner, state controller, state prosecutor and parliamentary secretariat. Abu Mazen’s Fatah cronies fill the new posts. 3. A new Palestinian broadcasting service was created under control of the president (instead of the information minister). 4. The outgoing deputies are automatically appointed to the Palestinian National Council, the ruling body of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the umbrella organization which signed all former accords with Israel. Hamas seeks admission to the PLO, but Abbas has now made sure that the Islamist terrorists will not gain a majority in the PNC. This “white revolution” has raised tensions between Abu Mazen’s Fatah and Hamas to the point that an explosion of violence appears unavoidable, with Abbas a prime target