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Middle East
PA security men suffer serious injuries
2003-07-12
And now for happy news...
Gaza - Members in the so-called “Death Squads” affiliated with the Palestinian Authority’s preventive security apparatus were seriously injured during recent clashes with Mujahideen of the popular resistance committees.
That'd be Hamas and IJ...
Sources in that apparatus said that absolute secrecy was shrouding identity of those wounded elements. They explained that some of them were wanted by Palestinian families and national organizations for involvement in killing relatives or cadres in various past incidents. The sources mentioned the name of two: Safwat Rahami and Nabil Tammos who were receiving medical treatment under strict protection in one of the Gaza hospitals. The Death Squad members are charged of murdering cadres in Hamas and Islamic Jihad Movements in addition to other national organizations.
That'd be al-Aqsa and maybe a few PLFP goons...
Palestinian families had threatened to take law into their own hands and avenge the killing of their next of kin at the hands of those security elements.

Bingo! What lovely news! Abbas (or maybe Dahlan) doesn't want a civil war with the fundos, but if they're not brought to heel they lose everything. So he's/they're doing the death squad thing, possibly under Egyptian tutelage, maybe even with Egyptian help, and probably with IDF intel. Dahlan's close to the Egyptians and the IDF has a vested interest in seeing Gaza cleaned out — and it'd be even more fun to see it cleaned out without dismembered Zionist bodies cluttering the landscape. If Abbas and Dahlan make a dent they'll get pretty much what they ask for from the U.S. and Israel. If not, why, nothing happened, did it? Must be time for more talks, more negotiations. The fly in the ointment is Yasser, sitting in the ruins and plotting Dire Revenge™ for his own irrelevance, passing on any intel he gets to the al-Aqsa thugs, knowing they'll share it with the fundos. "Byzantine" seems an inadequate term to describe this game...

Either that, or Hamas is even more paranoid than usual, which isn't impossible, just difficult.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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