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Thirteen killed in Hamas, pro-al Qaeda group clashes
Fri Aug 14, 2009 4:57pm EDT
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GAZA (Reuters) - Islamist radicals from a pan-Arab group defied the Hamas rulers of Gaza on Friday by declaring an "Islamic emirate", prompting clashes that killed 13 gunmen.
Although Jund Ansar Allah ("Warriors of God") rallied only a few hundred men for an event at a Gaza mosque, it marked a clear challenge to Hamas's nationalist brand of Palestinian Islam by groups espousing a pan-Arab militancy aligned with al Qaeda.
It was followed by clashes between Hamas gunmen and supporters of the leader of the movement in the southern town of Rafah, near the Egyptian border.
Medical workers said at least 13 gunmen were killed and some 85 people, including civilians and children, were injured.
Hamas said its gunmen stormed the movement's stronghold, including the mosque where Abdel-Latif Moussa -- known to followers by the al Qaeda-style nom de guerre Abu al-Nour al-Maqdessi -- had announced before weekly prayers the start of theocratic rule in the Gaza Strip, starting at Rafah.
Hamas also stormed Moussa's house but did not find him.
"We declare the birth of the Islamic Emirate," said Maqdessi, a heavily-bearded, middle-aged cleric in a red robe who was guarded by four black-clad, masked men with assault rifles. One wore what appeared to be an explosive suicide belt.
An audience of several hundred men filled the mosque with cheers and shouts. Al Qaeda uses the historical term "emirate" to mean clerical rule across the Islamic world.
"ZIONIST PROPAGANDA"
Ismail Haniyeh, who heads Gaza's Hamas government, denied in his sermon on Friday that any non-Palestinian gunmen were in the territory, as alleged by Israel which charges that veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken up residence.
"Such groups do not exist on the soil of the Gaza Strip ... there are no fighters in Gaza except Gazan fighters," he said.
Such "Zionist propaganda" from Israel was designed to turn the world against Hamas, he said.
Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri called Maqdessi's speech "wrong thinking" and the Interior Ministry said he was "mad".
His group announced its presence in Gaza two months ago after three of its members were killed in a border raid on an Israeli base in which gunmen rode on horseback.
Outside the mosque on Friday, nearly 100 of the group's masked fighters in Pakistani-style dress, and with long hair in a style believed to imitate the prophet Mohammad, carried automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. Continued...
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