Dahlan: Hamas fostering terror, damaging ties with Egypt

[Fozzledick]

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH 08/09/2012 19:36

Hamas has created the proper environment for the emergence of new terror groups in the Gaza Strip, Mohammed Dahlan, a former Palestinian security commander, said Thursday.

Dahlan, who founded and headed the Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security Force in the Gaza Strip between 1994 and 2000, also accused Hamas of harboring the terror groups and using their members to kill Fatah activists in the Gaza Strip.

Dahlan's allegations came in the wake of Sunday night's terror attack in Sinai in which 16 Egyptian border guards were killed by unidentified gunmen.

PA and Fatah officials have seized the opportunity to hold their rivals in Hamas responsible for the attack, which is believed to have been carried out by Muslim fundamentalists from Sinai and the Gaza Strip.

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=280722

[azurnoir]

1. Sinai spree prods Hamas to act against Gaza jihadis

Hamas, once hopeful of building an alliance with Egypt now ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood, its ideological kin, and of ending the blockade on the Gaza Strip, is now under pressure to show it can bring Salafi militants under control.

The Palestinian Islamist movement, which has governed Gaza since 2007, denied Egyptian and Israeli charges that some of the gunmen who raided a Sinai police post and then tried to storm into Israel on Sunday came from its side of the border.

But with Cairo incensed at the death of 16 border personnel, Hamas said on Monday it was arresting radical Salafi Islamists in Gaza and shutting down the around 1,000 smuggling tunnels to the Egyptian Sinai.

The Gazan government's spokesman Taher Al-Nono said steps were being taken "to help uncover the perpetrators" in coordination with Egypt. He said "no Palestinian could take part in such an ugly crime".

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Sinai_spree_prods_Hamas_to_act_against_Gaza_jihadis.html?cid=33253946

Thanks for the update on Dahlan though last I heard he was in Israel seeking treatment for 'mental health issues'

[oberliner]

3. The "last you heard" was in 2005

And he was treated in Israel at that time because he collapsed in Tel Aviv.

[azurnoir]

5. It was made public in 2011

'Dahlan's failing mental health treated in Israel' 10/04/2011 (updated) 11/04/2011 15:01

Former Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan's mental health is rapidly deteriorating, according to a 2005 assessment by a top Israeli security official made public Sunday by WikiLeaks.

In a message to Washington sent from the US embassy in Tel Aviv, then head of the Israeli Defense Ministry's political-security branch Amos Gilad described Dahlan as "a man whose emotional and mental health" was declining fast.

Gilad described one meeting as follows: "'Dahlan was there with his daughter-in-law. I told him 'You are sick,' and he started screaming and shouting at me. He shouted for hours," according to the document, one of a number of WikiLeaks' yet-to-be-released embassy cables obtained in advance by Israel's Haaretz daily.

"We called a doctor and suggested he go to a hospital. He refused and said he had to speak to thousands of Palestinians on September 17. He then collapsed on his bed. He looked ghostly white ... I said, 'If you leave this room you will either be martyred or end up paralyzed.'

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=377451

[oberliner]

7. You haven't heard anything about him since April of 2011?

That's funny because you posted on threads about him months later.

Clearly you aren't a fan.

Who are the Palestinian leaders that you support again?

[azurnoir]

8. Lol why?

Salam Fayyad would be one but I'm betting you'd like more huh? M. Barghouthi would be another

[sabbat hunter]

2. a terror group fostering terror

isn't that like stating the sky is blue?

[Alamuti Lotus]

4. still a little bitter about his failed coup, eh?

[oberliner]

6. Hamas isn't bitter - their coup was a complete success!

And not a single election since they booted Fatah out of Gaza and took total control over the government there.

[Alamuti Lotus]

9. very effective use of the memory hole there, brother winston..

eh, losing interest in this real-time revisionism playtime already.