Foreign Correspondence

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Hamas names notorious terror operative, Jemal Abu Sema Dana, to high office with responsibility for Palestinian security services

April 20, 2006, 11:16 PM (GMT+02:00)

Palestinian interior minister Said Siam announced Thursday that he had selected as director-general of his ministry the founder of the Palestinian Resistance Committees, manager of the Palestinian arms smuggling tunnels and Middle East gunrunner.

Sema Dana tops the list of wanted terrorists for engineering the murder of three American security contractors in the Gaza Strip three years ago, a long line terrorist attacks that claimed Israeli lives and more recently running the Qassam missile offensive.