Hamas not linked to Sinai bombing: Palestinian FM
AFP
Date: 05-24-06
CAIRO (AFP) - Palestinian foreign minister Mahmud Zahar denied any involvement by his radical Hamas movement or the Islamic Jihad group in suicide attacks that killed 20 people in the Sinai peninsula last month.Zahar spoke a day after the Egyptian interior ministry issued a statement saying that Palestinian militants had helped plan the attacks on the Red Sea resort of Dahab.
"The Egyptian statement gave many indications," Zahar told reporters after a meeting in Cairo with Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa.
"Neither Hamas nor Jihad was among the fundamentalist groups mentioned in the statement," Zahar added.
"There are individuals and groups with fundamentalist ideas and they are the ones implicated in the statement. It never insinuated Hamas or the Palestinian government," the Palestinian minister emphasised.
The statement did not say whether the Palestinians involved in the attacks belonged to a specific group but named three Palestinian militants who financed their Egyptian counterparts and offered logistical support from Egypt.
Egypt, which has blamed a string of deadly attacks in the Sinai peninsula over the past two years on a group called Tawhid wal Jihad (Unification and Holy War), also said three Palestinian suspects were currently in Egyptian custody.
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