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Psycho4Bud
06-27-2007, 03:07 AM
Ramallah - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas issued a decree on Wednesday banning the carrying of weapons and explosives in public without permits, effectively calling on Hamas to disarm.

"From now on it will be illegal to carry arms or explosives without an official permit," the official WAFA news agency quoted the text as saying.

"This measure aims to suppress all unofficial armed groups" in the Palestinian territories, it added.

Abbas's writ effectively extends only to the West Bank, where he set up an emergency government earlier this month after Hamas militants ousted his secular Fatah fighters from the Gaza strip in fighting which killed more than 110 people.

Hamas militants are outnumbered by Fatah in the West Bank and have been lying low since the collapse of the Hamas-led unity government, with Abbas accusing the Islamist movement of staging a coup and trying to kill him.
Abbas bans weapons in public: World: News: News24 (http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2137033,00.html)

These freedom haters are now banning A.K.s and suicide vests? OMG!!!

LOL...Have a good one!:s4:
Myth1184
06-27-2007, 07:31 AM
right now would be a good time for Fatah and the IDF to erradicate hamas,but I doubt Israel and the Palestinians will ever cooperate on anything.
medicinal
06-27-2007, 03:29 PM
Hamas: duly elected government.
Psycho4Bud
06-27-2007, 03:38 PM
Hamas: duly elected government.

Part of a dissolved government that has NO backing by it's Arab brothers from bordering countries.

Have a good one!:s4:
Gandalf_The_Grey
06-27-2007, 03:53 PM
right now would be a good time for Fatah and the IDF to erradicate hamas,but I doubt Israel and the Palestinians will ever cooperate on anything.

I really doubt they could whipe out Hamas, it's not like they haven't tried.



Hamas: duly elected government.

Also seems rather casual about slaughtering civilians. Not to mention we really don't need more sharia law nation.

But I agree that elected is elected, you can't just refuse to acknowledge them because you don't like them.


Part of a dissolved government that has NO backing by it's Arab brothers from bordering countries.

I think a democratically elected government is more accountable to recognition of the people, not its neighboring states.