Under Pressure from Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi, Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid Backtracks on Sympathetic Stance toward Hamas

May 28, 2010 Special Dispatch No. 5048

In a June 8, 2009 interview, Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid, an Al-Qaeda commander in Afghanistan, made the startlingly pro-Hamas statement that Hamas and Al-Qaeda "share the same ideology and the same doctrine."...

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