Hamas-Global Jihadist Power Struggle Intensifying

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clipped from www.israelnationalnews.com (IsraelNN.com) Messages are flying between Hamas commanders deployed throughout the Middle East, expressing concern that local leaders are losing control over Gaza. Ahmed Ja'bri, head of the terror group's Izz a-din al-Kassam armed division, recently sent an urgent missive to Hamas politburo leader Khaled Mashaal in Damascus, complaining about the organization's “deteriorating” authority in Gaza. Global jihadists have been posing a growing challenge to Hamas's authority in the area, he informed his superiors “We began to lose control of the internal situation after you asked us to transfer control to the government and not to interfere, in order to allow it to direct the affairs of Gaza,” he complained. Hamas-Global Jihadist Power Struggle Intensifying According to IDF military intelligence sources, global jihad (al-Qaeda) operatives were active in Gaza for several years; an IDF soldier was killed in an attack perpetrated in January 2009 by global jihadists near southern Gaza.

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