Hamas Whines About Suicide Bomb Plot
Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 9:33:06 am PST
You know you’re starting to get a bit cynical when you read a story like this one and it makes you break out laughing: Hamas claims to have foiled Fatah plot to kill Haniya.
It’s a many-layered baklava of deceitful irony.
GAZA CITY (AFP) - A senior Hamas leader on Saturday said the Islamist group had foiled a plot by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah party to assassinate dismissed Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya.
Hamas-run police had arrested a would-be suicide bomber, who was a member of Fatah, former interior minister Said Siam told a press conference in Gaza City.
Siam said the Fatah plotters had planned to kill Haniya at Friday prayers.
Fatah spokesman Fahmi Zaarir rejected the accusation as “ridiculous” in a statement from the party’s headquarters in Ramallah.
During a raid on the house of an explosives expert involved in the plot, Hamas-run police had found “plans to assassinate prime minister Ismail Haniya during Friday prayers with a suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt,” Siam said.
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