http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/news...ST-EU-GAZA.xml
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Palestinian gunmen surrounded European Union offices in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, demanding their closure to protest caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed that appeared in European newspapers.
The gunmen, from the militant group Islamic Jihad and an armed faction of Fatah known as the Yasser Arafat brigade, fired INTO phpbb_the air as they climbed the surrounding walls of the EU compound.
The gunmen called for an apology within 48 hours for the Danish cartoons, one of which shows the Prophet Mohammed wearing a turban shaped like a bomb.
"This place is closed until the government makes an apology," a spokesman for the gunmen said.
Newspapers in France, Germany and Spain have reprinted the caricatures, saying press freedom was more important than protests and boycotts the cartoons have sparked across the Muslim world.
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That's one way to lose all sympathy for a situtation. I'll expect a full colour magazine in one of the tabloids tommorow now.