 Prime Minister Marouf Bakheet told a meeting of parliamentarians that weapons seized from a secret Hamas arms cache in Jordan had been smuggled from Syria, deputies said yesterday.
| These are the arms Hamas sez Jordan's lying about... |
Bakheet gave no details to Islamist deputies when he met them late on Wednesday on how the weapons, which authorities say were recently discovered, had reached Jordan from Syria, where the Palestinian militant groupÂ’s exiled leadership is based.
| My guess would be across the same border the Islamists smuggled the makings of a chem weapon a year or two ago... |
Azzam Huneidi, the head of the 17-member Islamic Action Front bloc in the 110-seat assembly, said Bakheet declined to elaborate beyond saying the arms cache which contained rocket launchers and highly combustible explosives “came from Syria.”
| Assad country, that is. You know, Terrorhan's lapdog... |
Hamas on Wednesday denied the accusations, saying it has never targeted Jordan or any country other than Israel.
US ally Jordan has over the years accused Damascus-based Palestinian groups opposed to Middle East peacemaking of either plotting attacks inside the kingdom or trying to smuggle arms to launch attacks against Israel from its territory. But a security official told Reuters that while they were concerned the smuggled weapons had come from Syria there was no proof that Damascus condoned such activities.
| Of course not. The witnesses are all dead by now... |
An alarming sign for Jordanian intelligence beyond the discovery of the arms cache was that several Hamas activists had been arrested while engaged in “surveillance of vital installations,” the security source said without elaborating. That would be a “declaration of war” by Hamas and a major shift in strategy away from its traditional policy of restricting attacks on Palestinian territory, another security source said without elaborating.
| Gee. Golly. Shucks. I wonder what the response to a "declaration of war" might be? |
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