MESOP NEWS : NEW ISLAMIST HEADQUARTER TURKEY / HAMAS BOSS MESHAAL GOES ERDOGAN – LEAVING QATAR 7 Jan 2015 - Monday and Tuesday saw conflicting reports that Hamas head Khaled Meshaal, who has for the past several years been based in Qatar, was expelled from the country and preparing to take up residence in Turkey. Speculation began Monday night in Turkish media and continued into Tuesday afternoon, with both Doha and the terror group denying the report. The Washington Post on Tuesday noted that even though Doha has “lavished support on Hamas” in recent years, the Gulf state “has recently been trying to reconcile with Egypt, which asked that Qatar limit its support for the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood group, including its offshoot, Hamas.” Turkey is already home to several top Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood leaders – notably Saleh al-Arouri, the architect of Hamas’s West Bank infrastructure and the believed to be behind several Hamas plots including the June kidnappings and murders of three Israeli boys, and Imad al-Alami, described by experts as a “founding father” of Hamas. Read all: mesop.de/?p=56533
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 08:44:15 +0000
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