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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (18497)	12/15/2006 5:59:16 PM
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DEBKAfile Exclusive: Hamas masses units for seizing the Fatah-controlled Preventive Security Service Gaza command and Palestinian TV studios December 15, 2006, 10:39 PM (GMT+02:00) They plan to convert Palestinian national TV to a Hamas station. Our military sources report the Hamas assault force includes a large number of anti-tank missile crews. DEBKAfile now reveals that Thursday night, armed Hamas militiamen fired many of these rockets as well as heavy machine guns to drive off the Abbas loyalist Force 17 on duty at the Rafah crossing ahead of Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya’s arrival. The Palestinians were afraid to disclose the weaponry used in the Hamas attack and high Israeli political officials decided to keep it quiet. Members of the Egyptian mission of intelligence generals have been trying to deter Hamas from going on the warpath. They have offered to persuade Mahmoud Abbas to withdraw the important speech he is scheduled to deliver Saturday, Dec. 16, in Ramallah, or rewrite it to make it acceptable to Hamas. Abbas would have to ditch the plan which has got Hamas up in arms for an early Palestinian election with Hamas ruling as a transitional government. Hamas also gave the Egyptian generals the names of seven senior Fatah operatives wanted in connection with the attempted assassination of PM Ismail Haniya Thursday night. Their handover is Hamas’ precondition for canceling its offensive on Fatah locations Friday night. In their internal communications, Hamas leaders refer to their war with Fatah as a “struggle between the “Movement of God and the Party of Satan.”