Al-Qaida assailed Hamas for not waging all-out war against Israel. “Where is revenge, where are the bombs, where is the fire?” Abu Yahya al-Libi, an al-Qaida leader, said over the weekend in an Internet statement addressed to the dominant Palestinian Authority faction. “Your loyalty to the blood of your predecessors, those loyal men, can only be through strict commitment to the path of jihad.”
Though al-Qaida and Hamas share terrorist tactics, they disagree on some doctrinal issues. Al-Qaida came out against Hamas after it brought the more moderate faction Fatah into a P.A. coalition government last month. Hamas, which preaches the destruction of Israel, has scaled back its attacks against Israel in the past year while threatening to resume them if Israel does not meet its demands.
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