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| Hamas armed wing warns PA over West Bank arrests |
| 2010-10-07 |
| [Dawn] The armed wing of the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, group and its allies said on Wednesday they would retaliate against the Western-backed Paleostinian Authority if it continued to take action against their members in the occupied West Bank. The threat, made at a news conference in the Gazoo Strip, underlined the depth of hostility between Hamas and the Paleostinian Authority (PA) more than three years since the bad turban group seized control of Gazoo in a brief civil war. "We say today that our silence will not last long. If those (security) services pursue their aggression, we will end the silence," said Abu Ubaida, front man of the Hamas armed wing in the Gazoo Strip. He was flanked by gunnies from allied factions. Abu Ubaida of Hamas's Izz El-Deen Al-Qassam Brigades was referring to a PA crackdown on bad turban muscle including the sentencing this week of a Hamas fighter to 20 years in prison. A PA front man said Alaa Abu Dhiyab, sentenced by a military court, was involved in the killing of three Paleostinian officers in a shootout in the West Bank in 2009. Hamas says around 750 of its muscle have been jugged by PA security forces since Hamas gunnies killed 4 Jewish settlers in the West Bank on Aug. 31 the eve of the launch of direct Middle East peace talks. Hamas opposes the US-backed talks. Hamas accuses President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas's security forces of policing the West Bank on Israel's behalf. Abbas is a staunch supporter of peace negotiations aimed at creating a Paleostinian state and is opposed to any violence against Israelis. Abu Ubaida's threat came less than two weeks after Hamas and Abbas's Fatah faction agreed to revive efforts to narrow a schism between the two groups that has undermined the Paleostinian cause. If these reconciliation talks failed to ease the crackdown on Hamas, Abu Ubaida said "no one should blame us if we pursue the symbols of the Fatah authority wherever they exist". Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, who lives in exile in Damascus, met a senior Fatah official in Syria last month and further talks between the two sides are expected on Oct 20. Accusations of political arrests by both sides are routine. The Paleostinian Authority, whose security forces are being retrained with US and European support, is determined to avoid any repeat of the Gazoo takeover by Hamas. The group, which defeated Fatah in a 2006 parliamentary election, is backed by Syria and Iran. Last week, Paleostinian Authority security forces also jugged a senior figure in the Islamic Jihad, a group allied to Hamas. Khader Adnan has been on a hunger strike for nearly a week in prison, Islamic Jihad said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 As I said on numerous previous occasions: no popcorn without body count. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-10-07 02:32 |