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| Hamas denies Egyptian army's accusations on Sinai |
| 2013-09-16 |
| [Al Ahram] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, denied Sunday accusations made by the Egyptian army's front man who said hand grenades bearing the stamp of the Paleostinian Islamist group's military wing were found in Sinai. "No, no! Certainly not!" In a statement published on the information office website of the Islamic resistance movement, the group described the claims as "lies and fabrications." Earlier Sunday, the army's front man, Colonel Ahmed Ali, said that the military confiscated a number of munitions, including hand grenades bearing the stamp of the Ezzeddin Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's military arm. He also said in a presser there was "cooperation between armed and terrorist organizations and their counterpart in the Gazoo Strip." The armed forces have launched a large-scale operation against hard boy groups who have stepped up their attacks against security forces in the northern Sinai Peninsula since Islamist president Mohamed Morsi was ousted by the military 3 July. Since then, Egypt has repeatedly accused Hamas, an ideological off-shoot of the Moslem Brüderbund, of interfering in its internal affairs to support Morsi and his Moslem Brüderbund. In his presser, Colonel Ali also said there will be more military operations against "terrorist" strongholds in Sinai until the region is completely free of "factions threatening national security." |
| Posted by:Fred |