Hamas asserts power in Gaza after Qaeda clash

2009/08/16 09:02:31 @Reuters: International News

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Hamas militiamen were out in strength in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, asserting their authority over the Palestinian enclave after a bloody showdown with a rival Islamist splinter group aligned with al Qaeda. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=3TrUIdx5Wr0:coa5ayGreFU:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=3TrUIdx5Wr0:coa5ayGreFU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=3TrUIdx5Wr0:coa5ayGreFU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=3TrUIdx5Wr0:coa5ayGreFU:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=3TrUIdx5Wr0:coa5ayGreFU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/3TrUIdx5Wr0" height="1" width="1"/
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