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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)3/18/2010 7:03:21 pm PDT

re: #1263 Alouette

Heh. That’s kind of what I’m asking. In that article you posted, it says that Israel is holding Hamas accountable no matter what group fires the weapon. So I was asking if Hamas is— pathetically— trying to disclaim responsibility for these attacks.

A previously unknown group, Ansar al-Sunna, believed to share the hardline ideology of al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the rocket fire at Israel, as well as the al-Aqsa Martrys Brigades, a wing of the Fatah movement.

Earlier, Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said that Israel holds Hamas accountable for attacks originating in the Gaza Strip regardless of the group that commits them.

Because obviously Hamas knows them and is letting them operate, assuming it even really was them and not Hamas.