Zarqawi getting in on the Gaza action too...
- From: "Count 1" <omnipitus2002@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:02:39 GMT
Sets up a base in Gaza.
Thought this was interesting....
"For years, we fought al Qaeda in unpublicized encounters in remote places
far from our borders."
Sweet.
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1122
Iraq's Zarqawi Sets up Gaza Branch at Palestinian Base
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
December 19, 2005, 1:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
Since early December, a branch of Abu Musab al Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq
has been running a forward base in Gaza City preparatory to in-depth attacks
in Israel, according to DEBKAfile's exclusive counter-terror sources. It
joins the Al Qaeda-Palestine cell established some weeks ago in the Gaza
Strip.
A high-ranking Israeli army officer confided to us: "For years, we fought al
Qaeda in unpublicized encounters in remote places far from our borders. Now
we have to admit they are here, on our very threshold." The officer went on
to warn: "The conjunction of al Qaeda and Palestinian terrorist structures
confronts Israel with a grave strategic threat."
According to our sources, Israeli intelligence briefed prime minister Ariel
Sharon and defense minister Shaul Mofaz in the first week of December on the
Zarqawi group's infiltration of the Gaza Strip from Sinai and its arrival in
Gaza City.
Part of the incoming terror group transited the Rafah terminal (where US
officials say the security video cameras have broken down), past European
monitors, by showing forged Palestinian documents; part were smuggled in
through the Philadelphi border enclave which is guarded by Egyptian police.
Intelligence chiefs informed the prime minister that the new cell linked up
with the local branch of the Palestinian terror umbrella, the Popular
Resistance Committees, which is headed by Shekh Khalil Kuka. The PRC
welcomed the newcomer by making its publicity outlets available. Since
Monday, Dec. 5, PRC Internet websites have been posting daily bulletins on
Zarqawi's attacks on US and Iraqi targets which often run to 20-30
communiques a day.
These bulletins are now released simultaneously in Baghdad, Gaza, Rafah and
Khan Younes. In Gaza, they appear alongside a PRC statement declaring: "The
Palestinian and Zarqawi's struggles are one and the same."
It is the first time that a Palestinian combat-terrorist organization has
aligned itself directly and openly with al Qaeda's commander in Iraq. Yet,
although no attempt has been made to conceal this alliance, it has received
no publicity in Israel.
DEBKAfile's sources report that Israeli counter-terror agencies are quietly
working on the premise that the Popular Resistance Committees of Gaza and
the Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades of the West Bank plan to make their operational
structures available to Zarqawi's cell for in-depth attacks in Israel.
Meanwhile, the new cell is not letting the grass grow under its feet. Its
leaders have managed to enlist the support of the Bedouin clans of southern
Gaza, which number tens of thousands of tribesmen, thereby substantially
expanding their logistical base. Al Qaeda's Sinai cell, which Egypt has been
unable to root out, already counts on northern Sinai's Bedouin clans for
logistical support.
The pledge of solidarity issued by Gaza's Khan Younes and Deir Balah Bedouin
chiefs declares: "We are now committed to following Zarqawi's flag."
It condemns the Bani Hassan Bedouin tribe of Jordan for reprimanding and
expelling members who joined al Qaeda and accuses their chiefs of
capitulating to the rulers of Jordan.
(Last Tuesday, a Jordanian military tribunal issued a third death sentence
in absentia against the Jordanian-Palestinian al Qaeda chief in Iraq.)
The Palestinian Bedouin statement ends with a traditional piece of poetry to
mark the new pact. This is a free translation:
How is it that our lords Osama bin Laden and Musab Zarqawi are persecuted,
while the enemies of our faith walk straight-backed
How is it that Jihad warriors are treated as aliens, while corrupt infidels
are beloved
How is it that true believers are condemned to death, while the flags of the
licentious are held aloft
How is it that jihadists are killed, while others make peace with usurers
In July and August, 2005, ahead of Israel's evacuation of the Gaza Strip,
DEBKAfile warned that Zarqawi and al Qaeda's terrorists were waiting for the
pullback to establish forward bases in the Gaza Strip. Four months later,
they are poised for action on Israel's borders.
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