Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak has said that Egypt is not bound by a US-Israeli deal to end weapons smuggling into Gaza Strip, in remarks published in Egypt's leading government dailies Thursday, according to dpa. "I say that the smuggling of goods is the result of the blockade, and that Egypt is not bound by the Israeli-American agreement on monitoring arms smuggling into Gaza," Mubarak said in an address televised on Wednesday night and extensively quoted in the government-owned dailies al-Ahram and al-Akhbar Thursday. "We emphasize that any international agreements with Israel should be far from Egypt's land, skies, and regional waters."
