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Palestinian security arrests 20 Salafists in W.Bank
[Al Ahram] Paleostinian security forces have locked awayBook 'im, Mahmoud! 20 Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... in a series of raids across the West Bank, a security source said on Sunday, denying any of them had ties to Al-Qaeda. "In the last few days, around 20 people were arrested in Nablus, Jenin and Qalqilya," the senior Paleostinian security source told AFP on condition of anonymity, saying those tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! "embrace the Salafi ideology but are not affiliated with Al-Qaeda." His remarks were made a day after as a Gazoo-based group affiliated with Al-Qaeda confirmed it was operating in the West Bank for the first time, saying three Paleostinians killed by Israel near Hebron last week were its operatives. "The global jihadi doctrine has reached the bank of pride, the West Bank," the group said in a statement released late on Saturday. "Those brothers and that cell (..) are only the tip of the iceberg." But the Ramallah-based official denied that Death Eaters with Al-Qaeda ties were working out of the West Bank, which is ruled by the Western-backed Paleostinian Authority. "There are no Al-Qaeda affiliated groups operating in the West Bank but there are a few Salafi Jihadi groups," the source said. Those arrested were all former members of the Islamist Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement which rules Gazoo, he said, noting that they "embrace the global Moslem Brüderbund ideology that produces ideologically extreme groups." "These men are connected locally through technology, but are unarmed," he said. "They are not members of Al-Qaeda and they don't receive any instructions or weapons from it." Posted by: Fred 2013-12-02 |
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