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Hamas Releases Islamic State Loyalists From Detention
This is getting silly. Only yesterday we had the report they'd been arrested, though to be fair it didn't say when that happened, and immediately afterward they tell a Breitbart reporter they'd turned some loose -- what are they playing at?
[Breitbart] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, has released 13 Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 loyalists from detention after they were tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
 three months ago as part of the movement’s attempts to reconcile with Egyptian authorities by cracking down on radical Islamists in the Strip, a top jihadi operative in Gazoo told Breitbart Jerusalem.

The unannounced release included jihadists who tried to resist arrest by firing on Hamas troops, as well as others who were arrested while firing rockets at Israel, the operative said.

Another freed detainee was Ahmad Taleb, a jihadi Death Eater who was arrested wearing an boom belt en route to join IS ranks in Sinai, the operative said.

The source said that the release of the detainees resulted from an agreement between Hamas and Welayat Sinai,
...previously known as Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, currently affiliated with ISIS, before that pledging their blood and their lives to Al Qaeda...
IS’ Egyptian affiliate. As part of the agreement, Welayat Sinai facilitated the smuggling of goods through cross-border tunnels connecting Sinai and the Gazoo Strip, a move that had been delayed for months after Hamas refused to allow maimed IS fighters into the Strip for medical care.

However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
 he said, more than 700 jihadists remain in Hamas facilities. He charged that Hamas seeks to do Egypt’s bidding, hoping to be rewarded with the lifting of the blockade on Gazoo, while at the same time strengthening its ties with Cairo at the expense of Ramallah.

Last week, Egypt temporarily opened the crossing and started developing a commercial zone to facilitate exchanges of goods, but remains determined that progress will rely on security cooperation.

Some Hamas officials have protested what they deemed the slow pace of Egypt’s gestures towards them. They claim that Egypt will not give them preference over the Paleostinian Authority and Cairo’s approach is tactical and temporary. Therefore, they say, Hamas should not alienate Sinai jihadists.

A Hamas police official confirmed the release of the Death Eaters, while refusing to indicate their number. He said that the release was part of an agreement with IS in Sinai.
Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-23
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