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| Egypt rankled by Hamas’s burgeoning ties to Islamic State |
| 2016-08-02 |
| [IsraelTimes] Cairo learns that IS fighters maimed in attack on its troops in Sinai were smuggled into Gazoo via tunnels for treatment Cairo is fuming over increasing cooperation between the Paleostinian terror group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, which rules the Gazoo Strip, and 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... -affiliated forces in the neighboring Sinai Peninsula, The Times of Israel has learned, despite attempts in recent months to alleviate the tension between Egypt and Gazoo. In an effort to curb that collaboration, Egypt has relayed to Hamas leaders that it is aware of the links between its senior activists in the Rafah border area and commanders in the Islamic State’s Sinai Province. That cooperation has seen injured IS fighters routinely brought into the Strip for treatment, alongside ongoing weapons smuggling over the border. A few days ago, Cairo discovered that a group of IS fighters maimed during an attack on Egyptian Army soldiers ‐ they were planting explosives on the beach at Al-Arish ‐ were transferred to hospitals in Gazoo for treatment. Egyptian sources say they were likely smuggled into Gazoo via tunnels overseen by Hamas’s military wing that facilitate the connection between the two Islamist terror groups. This highly worrying development for the Egyptians began a few months ago, when prominent members of Hamas’s military wing crossed over from Gazoo into Sinai to help IS set up its military infrastructure there. Several of them took their families with them, and were involved in training IS activists in the art of planting IEDs and firing missiles at tanks. Several even joined the IS-affiliated Sinai Province group, including Muhammad Abu Shawish and Abed Al Wahad. Another senior activist in Hamas, Nasser Judah, also originally of Gazoo, was killed fighting with IS in Sinai. In May, The Times of Israel identified two more activists who crossed into Sinai as Mohammed Sami and Mahmoud Zinet. Egyptian sources say that whenever Cairo brings up the issue with Hamas’s leadership, it receives the same evasive answer: the activists assisting IS are all former members of the Paleostinian organization. But the dissembling doesn’t end there: Hamas military wing commanders in Rafah regularly host commanders of Sinai Province. One of the most prominent of these is Suleiman Al-Sawarka, whose Al-Sawarka tribe was among the founders of Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, which went on to pledge allegiance to IS and become Sinai Province. Al-Sawarka, whom Israel and Egypt accuse of involvement in an attack in Taba in 2004 that killed 34, including 18 Egyptians, arrived in the Strip about two months ago and has been holding talks with senior figures in Hamas’s military wing. Egyptian sources emphasize that he is in Gazoo with the blessing of some of the top officers in Hamas, including the commander of the southern Strip, Muhammad Shabbaneh; Hamas military chiefs Muhammad Deif and Marwan Issa; and strongman Yehya Sinwar. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 One hopes so most sincerely, Shipman. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-08-02 19:56 |
| #1 Another night of the long knives shortly. Sadat knew the plan. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-08-02 01:43 |