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...Rantisi, a pediatrician and Islamic ideologue who had been Hamas' No. 2; al-Zahar, a surgeon who teaches at Gaza's Islamic University and also leans toward the relative hard line; and the much lamented Abu Shanab, who reflected Hamas' more moderate side. Everyone is aware of Musa Abu Marzook and Khaled Mashaal, two tough decision makers who help run Hamas from increasingly constricted exile in Damascus, and the more pragmatic Ismail Haniya. But after them, Hamas is deliberately obscure. Almost no one knows the identities of the operational militants until they're caught or killed. Al-Qassam...
...sweep. Khaled Meshal, the man the Mossad poisoned in Amman in 1997 and whose life was then saved by Jordan's King Hussein, stays permanently out of reach. He is the organization's overall boss, but he gives his orders from safe havens in Syria and Qatar. Mousa Abu Marzook, who was forced out of the U.S. and then Jordan, is a political leader from his base in Syria...
...believe that now. So on the street, last week, Hamas showed off its power. In more than one case, supporters faced down Arafat's police when they came to make arrests. Neighbors in Bethlehem's Deheisha refugee camp spat at Palestinian Authority troops who tried to pick up Issa Marzook, a Hamas activist and correspondent for Hizballah TV, as a throng ganged around them shouting "Spies! Collaborators! Dogs!" The police retreated without Marzook. Says an Arafat aide: "Hamas is a political power and not a security threat only." Hamas officials voice their defiance. "Arafat is the chairman, but we shall...
...agents have been eavesdropping and gathering other intelligence on the group since at least 1993. The Treasury Department knew that Mousa Abu Marzook, a top Hamas official now in Syria, had contributed $210,000 to the foundation. At a California conference in 1994, Holy Land president Shukri Abu Baker was reportedly identified as a senior official of Hamas. According to an FBI memo, documents seized overseas showed that money moved from the Richardson office to Hamas-controlled committees in the Palestinian territories...
...Israel and many Palestinians believe the group represents a major threat to regional stability. Less than a week after devastating Hamas suicide attacks in Jerusalem and Haifa, and as Hamas activists were being rounded up by Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Abu Marzook outlined his defiant perspective from the group's exile base in the Syrian capital. Excerpts...