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Last update - 21:43 13/10/2006 Hamas website: Iran promises aid to Palestinian security forces By News Agencies Iran has promised to give assistance to the security forces of the Hamas-led Palestinian government, a Hamas website said Friday. The promise came during a visit to Tehran by Palestinian Interior Minister Said Siyam, which began Tuesday, according to the website. Siam was accompanied by four of his advisers and the head of Hamas' 3,500-member militia. A senior Hamas official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, said Iran had promised to give vehicles to the Palestinian security forces. Advertisement Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the destruction of Israel and questioned the veracity of the Holocaust. "We see the positions of Ahmadinejad as a source of pride for Muslims," Siyam was quoted as saying on the Hamas website. "Especially when he challenges the sources of international arrogance," he said, in an apparent reference to America and Israel. Siyam met with Ahmadinejad and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, visited Iran's security branches and attended a training session at the police academy, the website said. Senior Iranian officers promised to assist the Palestinians, it said. The Hamas government has faced crippling economic sanctions since taking office in March, with Western nations demanding the group recognize Israel and renounce violence in order to receive foreign aid. Hamas has refused. Ahmadinejad said Iran had no reservations that would stop it from helping the Hamas government, the site said. Iran's Republican Guards are believed to have helped train Hezbollah, and Iran is one of the main financial backers of the Lebanese guerrilla group, which fought a 34-day war with Israel over the summer. "The victories of Hamas and Hezbollah have put the Zionist entity in a difficult situation," the site quoted Ahmadinejad as saying. U.S. citizen pleads guilty to providing material support to Hamas A U.S. citizen has pleaded guilty in a federal court to providing material support to Hamas, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday. Mohamed Shorbagi, 42, of Rome, Georgia, was charged in August with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, a charge that carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Peer pressure Facing widespread pressure, Nadine Gordimer may pull out of Israel writers meet. My struggle German Jewish leader backs the publication of an annotated version of Hitler's Mein Kampf.   1.   each one has his partner 21:24  |  * TALKBACK OBSERVER* 13/10/06   2.   Peace now or the big bang 21:26  |  Sam 13/10/06   3.   Gaza and the West Bank already turning into leb war 2 21:40  |  Joseph E .very funy 13/10/06   4.   Iran Promises To Aid Palestine 22:17  |  Tony Anthony 13/10/06   5.   So can we now sob and scream about "handouts"? 22:17  |  Dave 13/10/06   6.   Selling out to Fascist Germany, Barbaric SSSR. Islamic Iran 23:50  |  BP Diplomacy 13/10/06   7.   to 3 23:52  |  jean marie 13/10/06   8.   iran promises aid to palestinian security forces 01:24  |  Shmuelshachor 14/10/06   9.   iran promises aid to palestinian security forces 01:24  |  Shmuelshachor 14/10/06   10.   Iranian military aid 01:45  |  ChanahS 14/10/06   11.   Iranian military aid 01:45  |  ChanahS 14/10/06   12.   speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized 02:14  |  Mufasa 14/10/06   13.   Lazy Journalism 04:01  |  Paulo 14/10/06   14.   Terrorism is Islam`s major employment sector 05:56  |  Kapule David Mabuta 14/10/06   15.   Probaganda Machine of enemies is against Hamas 06:49  |  Simon 14/10/06   16.   Probaganda Machine of enemies is against Hamas 06:49  |  Simon 14/10/06   17.   Paying money is better than US smart missiles 06:56  |  Abu Samra 14/10/06   18.   Thats it Hamas 07:10  |  Danite 14/10/06   19.   A helping hand 07:54  |  maoriboy 14/10/06   20.   Paulo trying to be funny 10:34  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 14/10/06   21.   Abu Samra learn to read 11:32  |  Nik Miller 14/10/06   22.   money is better than US.... 12:56  |  Paul 14/10/06   23.   re: Margie #20 13:36  |  Paulo 14/10/06   24.   To #21Nik U R Idiot Joke Aid in money trucks or any 14:33  |  Abu Samra 14/10/06   25.   To #22 Paul, U R Right it was stolen by Occupation Force 14:42  |  Abu Samra 14/10/06   26.   Los Angeles Movers 18:38  |  California 14/06/07   27.   war is a-coming 09:22  |  dave s. 17/06/07   28.   Abu 07:22  |  Pete 26/12/07

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