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Shadowy Hamas official with ties to Iran tapped to lead Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Sources say Imad al Alami replacing Ismail Haniyeh, who is likely filling Khaled Mashaal’s shoes as politburo chief in DohaThe Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror organization recently appointed a founding member with close ties to Syria and Iran to replace Ismail Haniyeh as the effective political leader in the Gazoo Strip, sources said Sunday. Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , who has been in charge of Hamas’s political activity in the enclave, left in early September for a series of visits to Arab and Moslem states, apparently aimed at paving his way to replace Khaled Mashaal as head of Hamas’s political bureau in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... Mashaal has said he will not run in the next leadership elections, scheduled to take place by the end of the year. Haniyeh’s replacement, Imad al Alami, 60, was born in Gazoo, but only returned there a few years ago. He lived for some time in Tehran, then moved to Damascus in 2008. He returned to Gazoo after being the last Hamas leader to leave the Syrian capital; relations with Syrian leader Bashir al-Assad had soured at the start of the uprising there. Al Alami has so far avoided the media spotlight. He does not take part in pressers and uses neither Facebook nor Twitter. Nor does he visit mourners’ tents as his Hamas colleagues do. In recent months, he has taken part in only one public event. Amid shifting political sands in the Middle East, Hamas has in recent years walked a tightrope in attempting to maintain support from both Gulf states like Qatar and their Shiite rivals in Iran, Syria and elsewhere. Haniyeh, who has been based in the Qatari capital Doha since leaving Gazoo, along with Mashaal recently met with Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... there. Haniyeh’s participation in that meeting is a further sign that he is on the way to becoming Hamas’s top boss. It is his continued absence from Gazoo and his relocation abroad that has prompted Hamas to appoint al Alami as a temporary replacement until official leadership elections are held in the Strip in the coming months. Al Alami suffered serious leg injuries during the Israel-Gazoo war in the summer of 2014, in circumstances that are not totally clear. According to one claim, he was hurt when an elevator collapsed inside a tunnel in which senior Hamas members were hiding. Another rumor says he was injured by gunfire during a battle between Hamas activists. He was treated in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . Posted by: trailing wife 2016-11-15 |
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