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Abbas: reason to sweat (file photo)
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| By israelinsider staff May 29, 2007 |
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DEBKAfile reports exclusively that Hamas infiltrated the Fatah al-Aksa Martyrs' Brigades and provoked the creation of a rebel group that no longer answers to PA leader Mahmoud Abbas and his senior military adviser Mohammed Dahlan. The new militia, which calls itself the Martyr Abu Amar (Yasser Arafat) Brigades and will specialize in suicide attacks, is commanded by senior Hamas Gaza terrorists Hussein Hijaz and Abu Hilas (Abu Maher). They also take orders, obtain explosive supplies and get funding from the Lebanese Hizbollah.
DEBKAfile quotes Israeli military and intelligence sources as evluating this schism as "extremely dangerous," affording Hamas a "prime strategic asset for escalating its violent campaign against Israel."
Hamas reported managed to infiltrate the Fatah's West Bank strongholds and persuade a large faction to secede and establish a Hamas-controlled militia. The focus would be on launching a mass suicide bombing offensive against central Israel, including multiple suicide truck bombings, Iraq style, in Israeli cities.
Only belated have Israeli military and undercover units reacted, fanning out across the West Bank to hunt down and capture Fatah defectors including Khaled Shawish, one of Israel's most wanted terrorists and the killer of Rabbi Binyamin and Talia Kahane; the brother of Zakariah Zubeidi, the notorious Fatah commander of Jenin; and Jamil Tirawi in Nablus, son of Tawfiq Tirawi, Arafat's faithful lieutenant and co-founder of the al Aqsa Brigades.
The revolt against Abu Mazen and Dahlan, instigated by Hamas and backed by Hizballah, is spreading, DEBKAfile reports, and reportedly has the backing from an Israeli prison of the influential Fatah-Tanzim terrorist leader, Marwan Barghouti, serving six life sentences for murdering Israeli civilians in terrorist attacks. Another supporter is Jibril Rajoub, former preventive security chief on the West Bank, and Dahlan's long-time rival.
The Fatah mutiny and the result and the resulting terror network is described by Israeli security sources, DEBKAfile reports, as "the gravest terrorist threat Israel has faced since its 2002 Defensive Wall operation broke Arafat's terrorist infrastructure. Abu Mazen's rule has never been in greater peril." |
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