Kouchner: Hamas help to free Johnston will not change French policy

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Hamas' help in freeing British Broadcasting Corp. Correspondent Alan Johnston in Gaza showed goodwill but was not enough to change France's policy toward the Islamic militant group.

Kouchner said he was very happy that Johnston has been released and his government would take the demonstration of goodwill by Hamas into account "but they were so determined to kill and to chase their

Palestinian neighbors ... Fatah, that I have no illusion for the moment," he told reporters (AP)