Senior intelligence officials in the Palestinian Authority have indicated that Hamas terrorists who split with the leadership over its politicization may have well made their way into the Gaza-area infrastructure of the Al-Qaeda international Jihad movement.
Contributing to the probability of this scenario is a special Egyptian Foreign Ministry release according to which the terrorists who carried out the suicide bombings in Dahab trained with help of Islamist elements from Gaza and El-Arish. Furthermore, an Egyptian authority on fundamentalist Islam, Abdelrahman Alian, told the Al-Arabiya television station that Al-Qaeda is working towards a three-point organizational structure, encompassing Amman, Gaza and Sinai, under the command of Iraq-based leadership. Alian said that Hamas rebels have joined the Egyptian-based Tawhid terror group and Al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Hamas spokesmen have quickly condemned the bombings in Egypt at the time, saying that the organization is careful not to endanger the security of Arab states. |