Reply #139: here's a connection, which I easily found on the web. [View All]

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51524

snip: Sources in the Al Aqsa Brigades told WND "independent Palestinian gunmen" affiliated with their group carried out the kidnapping "completely on their own."

A senior Al Aqsa leader, who claimed his group did not sanction the kidnapping, told WND he thinks the Fox News hostages are being held "to make a point that Palestinians are against American aid to Israeli aggression." He mentioned Israel's military campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wopals214859815aug21,0,7936880.story?coll=ny-worldnews-print

They hail Hezbollah as heroic
Many Palestinians see war as part of their cause
BY MICHAEL ROTHFELD
Newsday Staff Correspondent

August 21, 2006

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Behind the counter at Salaam Taxi, Mohamad Charaky has glued posters of a man from another country on each side of his picture of the late Palestinian legend, Yasser Arafat.

Charaky's new hero is Hezbollah leader Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, whose Islamist militia stood up to Israel in Lebanon. His admiration transcends the fact that he belongs to the Sunni branch of Islam and Nasrallah is Shia.

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Now, it seems, the future of both the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Lebanon may lie in Syria - which supports Hezbollah and gives sanctuary to Khaled Meshaal, head of the Hamas political bureau. Yesterday, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni announced she had appointed an adviser to investigate peace talks with Syria.