Khaled Meshaal, the political chief of the Palestinian Hamas movement who is at the head of Israel’s most-wanted list, has surfaced in Egypt, Cairo airport sources revealed. The Damascus-based Meshaal emerged as the undisputed leader of Hamas this year after the movement’s spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and his successor Abdelaziz Rantissi, were both killed in Israeli air strikes in Gaza City. The Egyptian sources said Meshaal — who escaped an Israeli attempt on his life in 1997 — arrived in Cairo late Saturday and was escorted to an undisclosed location. Several Palestinian groups had been expected to gather in Cairo on Sunday, but Palestinian foreign minister Nabil Shaath was quoted by an Egyptian newspaper as saying the inter-faction dialogue had been postponed until early October. Full Story
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