Moderate Jihad Update. "Hamas says it has foiled Fatah plot to kill leader," by Nidal al-Mughrabi for Reuters (thanks to Davida):
GAZA (Reuters) - A senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip on Saturday accused rival Fatah of plotting to assassinate Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh as he prayed and said the would-be suicide bomber had been arrested and had confessed.Tension between Islamist Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah faction has increased since Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in a brief but bloody civil war in June. Fatah still holds sway in the occupied West Bank.
"There was a plan by a suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt to assassinate Haniyeh as he prayed in the mosque. He was arrested and confessed," Saeed Seyam, who oversees Hamas government security forces in Gaza and is a former interior minister in the Hamas government, told reporters.
"Secular" Fatah of the "Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades." I don't think secular means what you think it means, Nidal.
If there is any truth in this,why didnt they rip him to pieces
"A senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip on Saturday accused rival Fatah of plotting to assassinate Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh as he prayed and said the would-be suicide bomber had been arrested and had confessed."
emagine the moral indignation in Hamas that someone would stoop to such a thing. Positively uncivilized!
Cui bono?
I wonder what will come of this, if anything.
"the would-be suicide bomber had been arrested and had confessed."
WOW! Hamas arrests suicide bombers? Maybe there's hope for Islam!
Probably a pizza delivery boy that got lost on the way to some infidels house!!!
Assassinations were condoned and called for by Muhammad, so I fail to see why Hamas are complaining. Fatah were just adhering to the example of the Prophet, after all :)
Tsk, tsk.
FIRST let the guy kill the murdering SOB in Chamas and THEN arrest him! These people can't do ANYTHING right.
If the Fatah suicide bomber suceeded in killing Ismail Haniyeh, which is the martyr? which gets the 72 virgins?
Spy vs. Spy.
It's a Mad-magazine world, my masters!
This will just give Hamas another reason to take out Abbas, and take over the West Bank. Geo better hold off on those jizya payments until 'who' to pay becomes clear...
Isn't there a verse in the Holy Bible that says "since you loved blood, blood will follow you" ?
Well, after years of calling to "martyredom", why are they distressed that other Muslims are using it against them?
The pot calling the kettle black, what a bunch of LOSERS!!!
This is good. Yes, duh_swami, we may now expect Hamas to retaliate, and so on, and so on...
"...the would-be suicide bomber had been arrested and had confessed...."
...you too, would confess after an Islamic drilling interrogation....