European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paoc16 stars and stripes june in the world Hatem palestinian militants from Hamas ride on a truck with their weapons during the funeral of militant Emad Abu who was killed during clashes with Fatah gunmen in Gaza fierce Battles Over key Security positions spread to Central and Southern Gaza Early Hamas hits Fatah bases in Gaza City by dial Hadid the associated press Gaza Gaza strip Hamas pounded Gaza cites three main Security compounds and president Mahmoud Abbas Headquarters with Gre Nades and assault rifles wednes calling on beleaguered Fatah forces to surrender in an apparent attempt to take control of the entire Gaza in one hundreds of members of a Fatah Allied clan that had fought fiercely surren dered to masked Hamas they were led arms raised in the air to a nearby Fatah fighters desperately tried to cling to their but appeared outgunned by one of the Battles raged around the Headquarters of the Fatah Allied preventive with both sides firing wildly from High Rise Abbas and prime minister is mail Haniyeh of Hamas issued a joint statement after calling on All sides to halt fight and to return to language of dialogue and respect of agree violence Between the which nominally share Power in the palestinian has rapidly spiralled toward fallout civil Wael Abdel a physician trapped in his apartment in the line of said he heard Fatah fighters shouting at col leagues on an adjacent roof to Send them More All of us Are terrified shooting came through the win Dows of our children Are we Are hearing from a nearby mosque the Call by Hamas to he who is in the West called the fighting mad but his appeals for a ceasefire rang increasingly hol Low As Hamas gunmen took Over or destroyed one base or another of his Security his of fice and residential compound in Gaza came under with Hamas fighters firing at Fatah forces guarding an Access the state department denounced the violence As a direct at tack by the most Radical elements of Hamas on legitimate Palestin Ian spokesman Sean Mccormack said Washington had no indication that Israel might intervene to Stop the 9 others die in Lebanon blast the associated press Lebanon an expo apparently from a bomb rigged rocked Beirut seafront killing an anti syrian lawmaker and nine oth Security officials the 65yearold Walid was the seventh opponent of dam ascus to be killed in two years in this conflict Ridden Eidos 35yearold son two bodyguards and six bystanders were also killed in the expo Security officials eleven others were they the slain parliament member was an ally of Saad the Leader of the parliamentary majority and son of former prime minister Rafik who was assassinated two years ago in a Beirut car several poli including pro syrian pres ident Emile condemned the after the a car was in flames and Black smoke was seen rising from a narrow Street off the main waterfront in which is in the Muslim sector of the Capi the lebanese broadcasting to station said the explosion came from a bomb rigged the United states condemned the attack As an act of extremists trying to cripple Lebanon Strug gling democratic american leaves afghan prison by Amir Shah the associated press american imprisoned in Afghanistan for running a private jail for terror suspects has left the afghan prison where he was held for almost three years and departed the coun the Warden said Jack a former Green was pardoned by president Hamid Karzai in late March As part of a general Rahim ideas afghan said the american left the prison out Side Kabul on june 2 and flew out of he did not know ideas the Warden of pol Charki prison where Idema was said Idema had wanted to stay in Afghanistan but  for Legal who like Many afghans goes by one said he transported Idema and his to the Kabul Airport for the flight he wanted to stay in afghan but there was no Way for him to Shamir Edward the con sul at the embassy in said in court documents filed in Washington this week that Idema had left for an unknown the documents were filed in a Case in which Idema accused the Fri and state department of ordering his torture arid manipulating the afghan judicial ideas John would not say where Idema flew to but said he does not believe he was immediately heading to the United Idema 232nd United states army birthday june