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Hardline Hamas rebels have thrown in with al-Qaeda in Gaza
Senior intelligence officials in the Palestinian Authority have indicated that Hamas terrorists who split with the leadership over its politicization may have well made their way into the Gaza-area infrastructure of the Al-Qaeda international Jihad movement.Contributing to the probability of this scenario is a special Egyptian Foreign Ministry release according to which the terrorists who carried out the suicide bombings in Dahab trained with help of Islamist elements from Gaza and El-Arish. Furthermore, an Egyptian authority on fundamentalist Islam, Abdelrahman Alian, told the Al-Arabiya television station that Al-Qaeda is working towards a three-point organizational structure, encompassing Amman, Gaza and Sinai, under the command of Iraq-based leadership. Alian said that Hamas rebels have joined the Egyptian-based Tawhid terror group and Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Hamas spokesmen have quickly condemned the bombings in Egypt at the time, saying that the organization is careful not to endanger the security of Arab states. Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-05-24 |
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