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Hamas Holds Egypt Responsible for Lives of Kidnapped Palestinians
2015-08-25
[ALMANAR.LB] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, resistance group said Monday that it holds Egypt "responsible" for the lives of four Paleostinians, members of Hamas, who were kidnapped last week by an gang in the northern Sinai.

In a statement, the movement urged the Egyptian authorities to do more to secure their release, and called on human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
and political organizations to play a bigger role condemning the "savage" kidnapping.

Hamas also warned the ISIL-affiliated group against harming the kidnapped members.

ISIL is the term used when referring to the so-called 'Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and the Levant' takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
group.

"The criminals who dare to take action against out people falsely think that the Paleostinian people might forget or ignore this case," the statement added.

The four Paleostinians -- identified as Abd al-Basit Abd al-Dayim, Abdullah Said Abdullah Abu Jibbeen, Yasir Fathi Misbah Zanoun and Hussein Khamis al-Thabda -- were kidnapped at gunpoint on August 19 after they crossed through the Rafah border into Egypt.

Egyptian officials told Ma'an that they were taken hostage by the Sinai Province gang as a bargaining chip to force Hamas to release some 50 Salafists
...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them...
currently imprisoned in Gazoo.
So it wasn't Hamas frogmen arrested by on their way to Iran for training by a very annoyed Egyptian government, as previously reported? Interesting.
Negotiations have reportedly begun between Hamas and the holy warrior group, with the involvement of both Paleostinian and Egyptian mediators.

However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat...
sources close to the Sinai Province group -- which pledged allegiance to ISIL in November -- have said the four Hamas members would be killed if Hamas did not comply with the group's demands.
What more could Ansar Bayt al Maqdis possibly want? They're already getting weapons for their jihad against Egypt, and quite possibly the loan of skilled men bored by the lack of action in Gaza as well.
Posted by:Fred

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