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| Al-Qaeda sez they boomed Tariq Abu Ghajab |
| 2006-05-22 |
| DEBKAfile Exclusive: Al Qaeda from its Samarra base in Iraq takes responsibility for attempt on life of Palestinian General Intelligence chief Saturday. Abu Mazen is next in line. DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report the bulletin, released from Abu Musab al Zarqawi’s main strongholds in Iraq Sunday at 8:22 am, claimed the attempted assassination of Gen. Tariq Abu Ghajab, GI chief, who survived the huge, remote-controlled explosion, which ripped through the fortified GI HQ building in Gaza Saturday, May 20, killing his bodyguard and injuring 9 officers. The notice contains circumstantial details of the attack, indicating its authenticity. Abu Ghajab was taken to Tel Aviv Ichilov Hospital in critical condition at Abbas’s request. DEBKAfile’s sources explain the Zarqawi network’s first major operation in Gaza as an attempt to make a statement: the Palestinian people’s fate will not be determined between the Palestinians and Israel – in reference to the talks held Sunday at Sharm al Sheikh by Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli ministers Tzipi Livni and Shimon Peres, or Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s meetings with both sides - but by the will of al Qaeda. Israeli officials did their best to cast doubt on al Qaeda’s claim to have hit Abu Ghajab when it was first aired by Hizballah’s al-Manar television station in Lebanon early Sunday. On April 28, DEBKAfile exclusively quoted the al Qaeda cell in Gaza as threatening attacks on Palestinian and Israeli targets as soon as final orders came through rom Abu Musab al Zarqawi, al Qaeda’s Iraq chief. The Palestinian targets named for the “traditional slaughter of the infidels” were Mahmoud Abbas and the Fatah leaders closest to him: former interior minister Mohammed Dahlan, West Bank spokesman Yasser Abd Rabbo, deputy director of preventive security in Gaza, Samir Mashrawi, and Fatah leader in Rafah, Abu Ali Shiahin. On May 14, DEBKAfile disclosed the influx into Gaza of some 100 al Qaeda fugitives on the run from Egyptian security forces in Sinai. They were primed for terrorist operations against the Palestinians and Israel. It is not yet clear whether al Qaeda or Hamas, which is locked in an armed leadership struggle with Fatah, planted the 70-kilo bomb aimed against another pro-Abbas security chief in Gaza, Rashid Abu Shebak, on Sunday. His security officials discovered the bomb in time and defused it. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #3 Wasabi popcorn |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-05-22 14:56 |
| #2 Any people as long as they are paleos like here is just fine for me, thanks very much. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-05-22 09:30 |
| #1 Why are they out to get Abu Mazen? He is an impotent, powerless, washed up, hasbeen. Unless its that $1B he has on his ATM card, but that wouldn't go to HAMAS by default anyway. These guys have lost sight of any goal they ever had, perverted though it was. They are just killing people now, any people. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-05-22 09:28 |