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FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Terrorist: We'll use U.S. weapons if Israel retaliates
Abbas-related group vows 'to use all tools at our disposal'
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Posted: January 30, 2007
1:00 p.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
=C2=A9 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
TEL AVIV =E2=80=93 If Israel retaliates for yesterday's suicide bombing wit=
h a
large-scale military operation in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian groups
will use "all tools" at their disposal to attack the Jewish state,
including American weapons recently transferred to security forces
associated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah
organization, a leader of Fatah's declared military wing told WND
today.
"If Israel dares any major atrocities in Gaza in response to
yesterday's martyrdom operation, we vow to use all tools at our
disposal to attack Israel and prove to the Zionists the heavy price of
entering Gaza," said Abu Ahmed, a northern Gaza leader of the Al Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades terror organization. "This means also the American
weapons sent to Fatah as part of an American-Zionist conspiracy to
generate internal fighting between us (Fatah) and Hamas."
The Brigades, the declared military wing of Fatah, took responsibility
along with the Islamic Jihad terror group for yesterday's attack,
which killed three people when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a
bakery in the southern resort city of Eilat.
Many members of the Brigades also openly serve in Fatah's security
organizations in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice earlier this month told reporters
the U.S. is working with Fatah to create a unified Palestinian
security force. The Bush administration reportedly will grant $86.4
million to strengthen the Fatah forces, including Force 17, Abbas'
security detail, which also serves as de facto police units in the
Gaza Strip and West Bank.
The U.S. aid is meant to bolster Fatah, which the U.S. considers
moderate, against Hamas. Fatah and Hamas have engaged in nearly two
months of deadly factional clashes after Abbas called for new
Palestinian elections in a move widely seen as an attempt to dismantle
the Hamas-led PA.
WND reported the U.S. in recent weeks transferred 7,000 assault rifles
and more than 1 million rounds of ammunition to Fatah militias.
The last confirmed American arms shipment to Fatah took place in May.
At first, the shipment, consisting of 3,000 rifles, was denied by the
U=2ES. and Israel, but Olmert in June admitted the transfer took place,
telling reporters, "I needed to approve the shipment to help bolster
Abbas."
At the time, Abu Yousuf, a Fatah militant from Abba's Force 17
security forces, told WND while some of the weapons may be used in
confrontations against Hamas, the bulk of the American arms would be
utilized to "hit the Zionists."
He said if there is a major conflict with Israel, U.S. weapons
provided to Fatah may be shared with other "Palestinian resistance
organizations."
"The first place of these U.S. weapons will be to defend the
Palestinian national project, which is reflected by the foundation of
the Palestinian Authority. If Hamas or any other group under the
influence of Iran and Syria wants to make a coup de tat against our
institution, these weapons are there to defend the PA," said Abu
Yousuf.
"We don't want to go to civil war with Hamas, because this is what
both the U.S. and Israel want. This is our last option. We hope our
brothers in Hamas won't oblige us to find ourselves in confrontation,"
Abu Yousuf said.
But the Fatah militant said the new American weapons may also be used
to target Israelis. He admitted previous American arms supplied to
Fatah were used in "resistance operations" against the Jewish state.
"If Israel will deliver what it promised to Abu Mazen (Abbas),
[meaning a] withdrawal from Palestinian lands, including east
Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, remove all the checkpoints in the West
Bank, release our prisoners, and find a clear solution for our
refugees, we'll control our forces and the distribution of weapons
"But if Israel doesn't deliver, and we find ourselves manipulated by
Israel, we cannot guarantee members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
and Force 17 will not use these weapons against Israel. Our goal is to
change the occupation," said Abu Yousuf.
"Its unnatural to think these American weapons won't be used against
the Israelis," he said.
Like some other Force 17 members, Abu Yousuf is openly also a member
of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
All Brigades leaders are also members of Fatah. Abbas last June
appointed senior Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader Mahmoud Damra as
commander of Force 17. Damra, who was arrested by Israel in November,
was on the Jewish state's most-wanted list of terrorists.
Abu Yousuf said the American weapons shipments may be shared with
other Palestinian terror groups. He said that during large
confrontations with Israel, such as the Jewish state's 2002 anti-
terror raid in Jenin, Fatah distributed weapons to Hamas and Islamic
Jihad.
"We don't look where this piece or that piece of weapon came from when
fighting the Israelis," Abu Yousuf said.
He also pointed to what he said was Hamas' infiltration of some of
Fatah's security forces as a possible mechanism Hamas can use to
obtain Fatah's American-supplied weapons.
A senior Fatah security official, speaking last week to WND on
condition his name be withheld, says Fatah has a "significant problem"
of its militia members in Gaza joining Hamas.
Sources close to Hamas said the Fatah militants, including members of
Force 17, worked with Hamas after receiving larger paychecks from the
terror group.
"When they join Hamas, they bring along their new weapons," said a
Hamas source.
During a WND interview last week, Hamas spokesman Abu Oubaida told WND
his terror group will obtain any American weapons transferred to Fatah
militias or purchased by Fatah using the incoming $86.4 million in
U=2ES. aid.
"I am sure that like in the past, this $86 million from America will
find its way to the Hamas resistance via the honorable persons in the
Fatah security organizations, including in Force 17. I can confirm 100
percent that this money and purchased weapons will find its way to
Hamas," said Abu Oubaida.
U=2ES. weapons prompting arms race?
Abu Abdullah, considered one of the most important operational members
of Hamas' so-called military wing, told WND the U.S. aid and weapons
shipments have prompted a Palestinian arms race.
The Hamas leader said weapons procured as a result of the U.S.
shipment will be used against Israel.
"The more the Americans give Abu Mazen (Abbas) weapons, the more we
will have in the future weapons to use against the Israelis, because
it incites the different organizations to intensify their own supply
of weapons," said Abu Abdullah of Hamas' Izzedine al-Qassam Martyrs
Brigades, Hamas' declared "resistance" department.
According to Palestinian security sources, the increased drive by
Hamas to obtain new weapons has raised the price of arms in Egypt and
Jordan.
"An M-16 that sold for 6,000 Jordanian Dinar now is worth 10,000 Dinar
because Hamas is trying to get more weapons," a Palestinian security
source told WND.
Like Hamas spokesman Abu Oubaida, Hamas' Abu Abdullah said U.S.
weapons to Fatah would eventually fall into the hands of Hamas.
"These American weapons will be one day the property of all the
Palestinian people and its resistance, including Hamas," Abu Abdullah
said. "The U.S. gives weapons to Fatah during internal Palestinian
clashes, but one day when we go back to carrying out operations
together, these [weapons] will be shared."
Israeli response will be limited
Meanwhile, Palestinian terror groups in Gaza need not worry about any
massive Israeli retaliation to yesterday's suicide attack.
Olmert's aids told reporters today Israel plans to maintain a cease-
fire in the Gaza Strip and will not respond to the Eilat suicide
bombing in Eilat with a broad military offensive.
The Israeli Defense Forces today attacked a tunnel in the northern
Gaza Strip that the army said was designed to transport terrorists
into Israel to carry out an imminent attack. But IDF sources told WND
they have been ordered to stand down in Gaza with the exception of
stopping any imminent attacks, such as tunnel bombings or attempted
rocket fire.
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