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| Hamas terror chief wanted by Egypt for Sunday's attack was involved in Shalit kidnapping |
| 2012-08-10 |
| Raed Attar, who heads Gazoo's Qasam Brigades, is one of trio accused by Cairo of 'indirect role' in assault that killed 16 Egyptian troops and smashed into Israel at Kerem Shalom crosing Egypt's General Intelligence has demanded the extradition from Gazoo of three senior members of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,'s armed wing Izz A-Din Al-Qassam Brigades for their involvement in a terrorist attack near the Kerem Shalom border crossing on Sunday, a Paleostinian daily reported Thursday. A Hamas front man denied the report. One of the three desperados, Raed Attar, is the commander of the Qassam brigades in Gazoo. Attar was involved in the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from inside the Israeli border, also near the Kerem Shalom crossing, in June 2006, according to Hebrew media reports on the Shalit affair. Israeli officials said the gunnies who carried out Sunday's attack -- killing 16 Egyptian security officers, commandeering an APV and smashing across the border into Israel before their vehicle was blown up by the IAF -- were also aiming to kidnap a soldier or soldiers. In initial comments to the media after the gunnies were thwarted Sunday night, the IDF front man specified that no soldiers had been kidnapped. Al-Quds reported that the request to extradite the trio was sent to Hamas Prime Minister 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... through Mahmoud A-Zahar, a Hamas official in Gazoo. An unnamed security source told the daily that the three men are not suspected of perpetrating the attack, but of providing "indirect logistical support" to an thug group in Sinai that carried it out. The source would not give Al-Quds the names of the three men, but security sources in Ramallah told the daily that they are Raed Attar, Ayman Nofal, and Muhammad Abu-Shamalah, all of whom are well-known tunnel smugglers in Gazoo. The daily reported that Hamas agreed to hand over the men to the Egyptians, but they refused to go voluntarily, citing a fear of being tortured by the Egyptians. The men did agree to be questioned by the Egyptian intelligence inside the Gazoo Strip. Attar, the commander of the Qassam Brigades in Gazoo, was reportedly involved in the cross-border infiltration, via tunnels, in which two IDF soldiers were killed and Shalit was grabbed and dragged away into Gazoo, where he was held hostage for five years until last October. Hamas denied involvement in Sunday's terrorist attack, erected a symbolic mourning tent for the 16 Egyptians, and vowed to assist the Egyptian authorities in their investigation. Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea... Abdul Dayem Abu-Midin, a Paleostinian philanthropist from Gazoo, on Thursday pledged $10,000 to every family of the Egyptian victims. He told the Hamas-affiliated Paleostinian Information Center that his donation stems from "the love of a Paleostinian citizen to a sister-nation." |
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