Surprise, surprise.
Now you know why israel favors Fatah - because they can get Fatah to do their dirty work for them . . .
Aides of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas were involved in and encouraged abductions of Westerners in the Gaza Strip, according to a document released by Hamas.
The PA document alleged the participation of Abbas aides in the abduction of foreign journalists, mostly Westerners, in Gaza Strip. The document, dated January 2007, asserted that the abductors were linked to a Fatah leader associated with Abbas.
The document was an official letter from then-PA Interior Minister Said Siyam to Mohammed Awad, secretary of the PA Council of Ministers, Middle East Newsline reported. In the letter, Siyam told Awad that Abbas aides were encouraging abductors of foreign journalists in the Gaza Strip. No details were provided.
Siyam, responding to a letter from Abbas adviser Rafik Al Husseini, asserted that most of the abductors of journalists were associated with an unidentified Fatah leader in the Gaza Strip. The interior minister said Abbas recruited several of the abductors for the PA Presidential Guards.
Palestinian security sources said Abbas aides, particularly Mohammed Dahlan, were protecting the Dughmoush clan, based in Gaza City. Dughmoush, they said, defected from Hamas to Fatah and obtained immunity for his abduction and other attacks in the Gaza Strip.
Dughmoush was said to have led the abduction of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston. Johnston was abducted in March 2007 and released earlier in July in exchange of what the sources said was a $5 million ransom.
All along, I've been saying that the kidnapping of foreign journalists in Gaza had israel's fingerprints all over it.
All you had to ask was "Cui Bono?"
It works like a charm.