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| Iran trying to set up its own terror group in Gaza |
| 2015-11-14 |
| [IsraelTimes] With Hezbollah as its model, Al-Sabirin recruiting an initial intended force of 400, Israel's Channel 2 reports Iran is trying to build a Hezbollah-style terror group in the Gazoo Strip, Israel's Channel 2 reported Friday night. Al-Sabirin (the name comes from the Arabic word for "patience") has begun recruiting an intended initial force of 400 fighters, the TV report said, and is directly funded by the regime in Tehran. Because it follows Shi'ite Islam -- as does Iran and the Iranian proxy militia Hezbollah in Leb -- it is having a difficult time gaining recruits among Gazoo's Sunni Muslims. Nonetheless, the report said, Iran's Revolutionary Guards is allocating funds to the nascent group, transferred through a charitable organization named after the founder of Iran's Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini. Headed by a former Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... leader named Hisham Salem, Al-Sabirin has fired rockets into Israel, and lost one fighter, named in the TV report as Ahmed al-Sirahi, in festivities with Israel forces at the Gazoo border last month. A rocket factory it established in Gazoo was blown up during the summer 2014 war with Israel, and the two Gazooks who were producing its rockets were killed, according to the report. The symbol and flag of the group are very similar to those of Hezbollah, which in 2006 fought a major war against Israel, and which Israel today believes has an arsenal of some 150,000 rockets and precision missiles in south Leb ready for use against Israel should Iran give the word. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has repeatedly vowed to arm fighters in Paleostine against Israel -- a pledge he has restated in the wake of July's world powers' nuclear accord with his regime. Israel's leadership bitterly opposed the terms of that deal, warning that it would embolden Iran in its support for terrorism and regional aggression, and bolster the regime's finances, as well as paving its path to the bomb. Iran's drive to establish its own organization in the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-controlled Gazoo Strip began 18 months ago, the TV report said, and Tehran has now suspended all funding to Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad, in part because of their opposition to the Assad regime that Iran and Hezbollah are supporting in Syria. Tehran is also channeling funds to woo recruits to the organization through the familiar path of philanthropy, the TV report said, citing school equipment and household goods purchased with Iranian money for needy Gazooks. It showed school supplies in Gazoo bearing the picture of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and cooling fans purchased, ironically, in Israel. Al-Sabirin "is still a small organization, with marginal influence" in Gazoo, the TV report said. "But these are the first seeds." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Because the Persians are tired of the Arabs mucking the whole thing up despite all the money and stuff they've supplied over the years? Plus, they are feeling frisky and have a lot of spare cash after Obama's nuke deal. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-11-14 13:14 |
| #3 Hamas don't stay bought. And any other Palestinian group will? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-11-14 12:30 |
| #2 Hamas don't stay bought. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-11-14 12:21 |
| #1 Yea, like they don't own Hamas lock, stock, and barrel? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-11-14 04:12 |