____________________________________________________________________________________________________________,Damascus, raising fears of a ground attack on rebel-held parts of the capital. As the army continued to shell rebel positions, the BBC Middle East editor was taken by Syrian government officials to interview prisoners at, what he described as a notorious military-run jail nearby. He said two admitted to be members of an al-Qaeda-type group.The exile leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, has described his first visit to Palestinian territory for nearly 40 years as a rebirth. He is there to mark the 25th anniversary of Hamas which governs the territory. Ulan Nell reports
