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Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Draw your own conclusions. Isma`il Haniyyah, the Hamas prime minister, met with King `Abdullah in Saudi Arabia after expressing his strong desire for the meeting in the press. Two days ago, a private Saudi jet arrived in Beirut; it then returned to Saudi Arabia with Na`im Qasim (deputy secretary general of Hizbullah) and Muhammad Fnaysh (the Hizbullah minister who resigned). The two met with the King. Also, the Egyptian ambassador in Lebanon met with Hasan Nasrallah. According to the minutes (partial) of the meeting published in As-Safir today, the ambassador carried a letter from Husni Mubarak and salutations from `Umar Sulayman.