Hamas is Buying Weapons “Like Crazy”

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Sun Jun 18, 2006 at 4:06 pm PDT • Views: 361

As the international community wails about the desperate plight of the “cash-starved” Palestinian people, arms dealers in the PA can’t keep up with the demand for tools of violence: Palestinian Chaos Spreads.

A Palestinian arms dealer in Ramallah, who wished to remain anonymous as he offered to sell NEWSWEEK an unsolicited MP5 submachine gun, says that the price of a U.S.-made M-16 on the black market has doubled, from $5,000 to $10,000, since Hamas took power. “Hamas is buying like crazy,” the dealer says.

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