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• Officials: Cigarette smuggling ring busted

  But both Schneiderman and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said they are concerned because similar schemes have passed money to Hamas and Hezbollah.Separately, Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford), agreed that the potential links to terrorism had to be investigated. "There   Read more »

• Bin Laden son-in-law wants to hire lawyer facing indictment

  Abu Ghaith told U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan that he wanted Stanley Cohen, best known for resisting the extradition of Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk to Israel to stand trial for bombings, to replace federal public defenders appointed to defend him. He   Read more »

• Palestinian rivals promise unity government

  sides agreed on a timetable that begins with creating laws to govern elections.Al-Ahmed spoke in Cairo after he met with a Hamas delegation led by Moussa Abu Marzouk. Tuesday's meeting was brokered by Egyptian intelligence officials.The Hamas militant group   Read more »

• Israel ends airstrike case; Palestinians critical

  deciding not to press charges in an airstrike that killed a dozen Palestinian civilians during a November offensive against Hamas militants.The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said Sunday that the military prosecutor's office informed it that Israel's   Read more »

• Hamas re-elects Mashaal as its leader

  -- Two Hamas officials say the Islamic militant group has re-elected Khaled Mashaal as its leader.Mashaal, 56, who has run the Palestinian movement since 1996 from exile, was seen as a favorite.He is backed by regional powers Qatar, Turkey and Egypt. He is   Read more »

Around the web

• Friday Links Part 1

  developments that boosted its credibility in the court of Palestinian public opinion at Fatah’s expense. These events include Hamas’s conflict with Israel last year, and its success in securing the release of 1,200 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons. 51 m ago from Elder of Ziyon Read more »

• Hamas: Israel poisoned Gaza patients with gas

  Health Minister Mofeed al-Mokhalalati accused Israel of poisoning Palestinians patients in Gaza by providing the hospitals in the Strip carbon monoxide gas posing as nitrous gas, the Middle East Monitor reported on Friday. Four Palestinian patients were reportedly 10:26 AM from Jerusalem Post Read more »

• Islamic Jihad says Fatah, Hamas unity meetings "a waste of time"

  on the makeup of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the Palestinian National Council. But he said neither Fatah nor Hamas seemed serious about ending the division and implementing a reconciliation deal signed in 2011. Al-Rifaei, who also serves as Islamic 9:26 AM from Elder of Ziyon Read more »

• De Borchgrave: Kerry Is Chasing 'Brass Ring' of Independent Palestinian State

  be governed — no, ruled — by the hard lining Palestinian Hamas faction that runs Gaza. Fatah moderates keep losing ground to Hamas all over the West Bank. A Hamas regime in the West Bank would have the Mediterranean as its next border, or the gradual erosion 5/23/13 from NewsMax Read more »

• Analysis: Sinai is becoming a major threat to Egypt

  against it inside Egypt. It would like to see a measure of calm returning, without getting into a confrontation with Hamas, a member of the world movement of the Muslim Brothers, and one that furthermore helped them to topple Mubarak and is their ally against 5/23/13 from Jerusalem Post Read more »