ARAB AFFAIRS - Apr 26 - Syria Denies Being Base Of Any Hamas Leader.Damascus Damascus (dəmăs`kəs), Arabic Dimashq or ash-Sham, city (1995 est. pop. 1,500,000), capital of Syria and of its Damascus governorate, SW Syria, on the eastern edge of the Anti-Lebanon Mts. rejects accusations that Hamas Hamas (hämäs`) [Arab., = zeal], Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, a Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist organization that was founded in 1987 during the Intifada; it seeks to establish an Islamic state in Israel, had smuggled smug·gle v. smug·gled, smug·gling, smug·gles v.tr. 1. To import or export without paying lawful customs charges or duties. 2. To bring in or take out illicitly or by stealth. weapons into Jordan Jordan, country, Asia Jordan, officially Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, kingdom (2005 est. pop. 5,760,000), 35,637 sq mi (92,300 sq km), SW Asia. It borders on Israel and the West Bank in the west, on Syria in the north, on Iraq in the northeast, and on Saudi through Syria. "Pretending that a Hamas military leader in Syria was behind the operation is completely false. Syria is not aware of any Hamas military leader inside its territory", said a foreign ministry official to Sana state news agency. Earlier on Apr 25, the Jordanian government announced the arrest of an undisclosed number of Hamas members who it said received orders from a leader based in Syria to carry out attacks on officials in the kingdom. |
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