Friday, August 14, 2009
It's John Dillinger vs. Jesse James in the Gaza Strip as Hamas cracks down on Al Qaeda-inspired Islamists they deny exist: France24: Several killed in clashes between Islamists and Hamas police in Gaza
AFP - Hamas police stormed a mosque in Gaza on Friday where radicals had declared an Islamist "emirate," sparking clashes that left 13 people dead and injured at least 100, emergency services said.
Shooting continued after dark, witnesses said, after clashes began in the afternoon following weekly prayers in the southern city of Rafah, which straddles the Egyptian border.
Among the dead was Mohammed al-Shamali, head of the Hamas military unit for southern Gaza [Note: Commander of group which kidnapped Schalit reportedly killed in Gaza], emergency services said, adding that bodies of some other victims could not be reached because of the intensity of the fighting.
Twenty of the wounded were said to be in serious condition as the confrontation developed into one of the most violent incidents in Gaza since Israel's 22-day onslaught on the impoverished enclave in December and January [These pieces of s**t never miss an opportunity do they? -S].
An Egyptian security official said a three-year-old boy was critically wounded by a bullet from the fighting across the border.
Witnesses said that following prayers, a group of Palestinians announced the formation of the Islamist "emirate," defying the authority of Hamas, which has ruled Gaza's 1.5 million people for the past two years.
"We are today proclaiming the creation of an Islamist Emirate in the Gaza Strip," Abdul Latif Musa, a representative of Jund Ansar Allah (Soldiers of the Partisans of God), said at the Bin Taymiyya mosque, the witnesses reported.
Musa was surrounded by armed fighters when he made his statement, according to the witnesses.
Rafah is the Gaza stronghold of the so-called Salafist movement, of which Jund Ansar Allah is said to a part and which is ideologically close to Al-Qaeda.
An AFP photographer reported that Hamas police dynamited Musa's house. It could not be established whether the Islamist was there at the time.
Hamas police blocked all entrances to Rafah, the photographer said...
...At the same time, Hamas premier Ismail Haniya denied that the group exists.
"No such groups exist on the ground in Gaza," he said at prayers in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya. He blamed the "Israeli media for spreading this information with a view to turning the world against Gaza."...
I was forwarded this photo, describing the bare-footed guys as Al Qaeda (from an Israeli forum):
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Twenty of the wounded were said to be in serious condition as the confrontation developed into one of the most violent incidents in Gaza since Israel's 22-day onslaught on the impoverished enclave wreaked havoc, scared innocent children, poisoned the groundwater, trampled rare Gazan conifers, and generally impugned the veracity of the Prophet's (PBUH) vision."
There, I can also be an editor for the AP!
g, it's AFP, not AP.
From the AFP website.
"In a world where the lines are often blurred between news, rumour, gossip and spin, AFP delivers the facts: accurate, fast, clear and balanced news."
LOL!!!
Just to add to the surreal world we live
Hamas says US, Israel offer 'poisoned peace'
The Hamas leader characterized the initiative as "a poisoned peace plan promoted by the US and Israel along with some Arab states and the Palestinians." The proposal constitutes a "death wish" for the Palestinians, he said.
Go figure.
In other reports, twenty AFP, AP, Al-Reuters, Al-Guardian and BBC editors were said to be found sniffing one another's posteriors, reporting to the public that, regardless, it all smells like Queen Anne roses, adding that the public should mind their own business and speak when spoken to. Via a spokesperson, the group additionally remarked that the number of cases of auto-cranial-posterior syndrome among talking-heads, reporters and editors is exaggerated, hi-lighting recent studies showing the number of cranial extractions performed by medical doctors is on the decline.
However, this decline, according to still other studies, has been wholly attributed to what is increasingly referred to as the Matthews/Olberman/Rather syndrome, wherein the subject chooses to forego the extraction procedure in favor of a professional and lifestyle choice. The sense among these "dedicated professionals" is that "the position," as it is known in the trade, affords a perspective the public at large otherwise would not be familiar with.
Btw, in terms of the barefooted militants in the photo, some salafists adopt this affectation with the rationale that it symbolically, as well as more viscerally, connects them to the very land they deem themselves to be the rightful rulers of. There are anecdotes of the earliest Muslim imperialists in the c. 630-640 era, in Gaza and Palestine at large, Jerusalem specifically, who would occasionally adopt this practice. More an affectation than anything that is doctrinal, according to the sources I've read.
Of course I have no idea if that's what's occurring in their minds, in the instance of this particular photo.
Cynic, any plan that doesn't include the destruction of "the Zionist entity", that's Israel for islamofascists, that plan is a "poisoned peace" plan.
May hamass, hezbullah, the islamofascist regime of iran, islamists, islamofascists, socialists, "progressives", ISM (islamofascist solidarity movement), self-hating JINO, continue to personally know the "poisoned peace" of failure, defeat and paleSWINIAN nakba!
INSHALLAH!