IRONIC RETURN HOME FOR RELEASED TERRORIST

Mixed Homecoming for Released Gaza Prisoner - Nidal al-Mughrabi
The Gaza homecoming on Tuesday of Fatah loyalist Abdel-Hadi Hassanein, after seven years in an Israeli jail for shooting attacks against Israeli soldiers, was an upbeat affair - until members of Hamas' paramilitary Executive Force showed up. "They smashed the chairs and peppered my house with bullets," said Hassanein, among a group of 29 Palestinian prisoners from Gaza freed by Israel. "It seems they have been angered because we sang songs honoring Samih al-Madhoun," Hassanein said. Madhoun was an arch-foe of Hamas executed by its fighters in June. (Reuters)