 GAZA CITY - The Islamist movement Hamas, heading the ineffectual Palestinian government, charged on Thursday that an “Arab country” had shipped weapons to the presidential guard which is loyal to the rival Fatah faction.
| Heh. Wonder what country that might be? Bet it's on the Arabian peninsula. |
“A large cargo of weapons was transported yesterday,” said spokesman Ismail Radwan. He said the shipment passed into the Gaza Strip via Egypt through a crossing on the border between Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian territory. “These weapons are intended for the presidential guard and the Fatah putschists,” Radwan charged.
“Military jeeps and shells are among these weapons which come from an Arab country, whose name we do not wish to divulge,” he added.
| Go for it, you know who it is, make the Saoodis mad at ya. |
The secular Fatah party, which is led by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, denied having received any such shipment. “It’s a slanderous accusation throwing water into the fire,” said spokesman Abdelhakim Awad.
| Throwing water into the fire? Methinks Abdel needs some remedial spokespersing help. |
The head of Egypt’s Gaza-based security delegation, Burhan Hammad, also similarly branded the allegations a “total lie” that he said intended to push bitter rivals Fatah and Hamas into an “arms race”.
| He's just defending the Saoodis, you know that. |
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