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Jordanian authorities prevent printing of weekly newspaper
Apr 30, 2007, 22:11 GMT
Amman - Jordanian security authorities on Monday intervened to prevent the printing of al-Majd weekly and a political story about the power struggle among Palestinians, the paper's editor-in-chief Fahd Rimawi said.
'The new edition should have carried a report about a plan forwarded to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for strengthening his position versus the Hamas group so that he can fire the present government and call early elections,' al-Rimawi said.
'The authorities stipulated that this report be removed for allowing the publication of the new edition,' he added.
There was no official comment from the government.
Abbas and the Hamas-led government concluded an agreement with Saudi brokerage in Mecca in March that put an end to 13 months of a power struggle and bloody fighting between the president's Fatah group and Hamas.
The Mecca accord paved the way for setting up a Palestinian national unity government with portfolios shared by Fatah, Hamas and independent politicians.
The Jordanian government has so far backed Abbas and refrained from establishing official communication with Hamas, which scored a sweeping victory at the January 2006 elections in the Palestinian territories.
The new press and printing law in Jordan does not sanction the censorship of the media.
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FLASH......SPECIAL REPORT:::::Apr 30th, 2007 - 22:33:05
hamas has just changed its name to HamAsses. They wanted to make sure everyone knew there was more then one in the group.
Some how I get a seperate and much different image of their new name.
HAM???? ASSES???
Who would have THUNK?????
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