Egyptian writer: Arresting Debabesh meant to pressure Hamas to sign document

[ 21/09/2010 - 03:20 PM ]

CAIRO, (PIC)-- An Egyptian writer has opined that the Egyptian authorities' detention of Hamas leader Mohammed Debabesh on his way back home from performing Umra was meant as a pressure card on Hamas to sign the Egyptian document for Palestinian reconciliation as is. Salim Azuz said in a press statement on Tuesday that arresting Debabesh was part of a campaign to force Hamas to sign the document and to prove that Cairo was still a main player in the region. He noted that the arrest campaign against Hamas cadres was taking place at a time Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman was secretly meeting with Hamas supreme leader Khaled Mishaal. The writer said that Cairo was playing all its pressure cards against Hamas, noting that a big number of Hamas supporters were held in Egyptian prisons for the same purpose.