HAMAS REVEALS RELATIONS WITH I.R.A.

Hamas Reveals Relations with IRA (MEMRI)
Ahmad Yousuf, political advisor to Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, recently revealed that Hamas has relations with the Irish Republican Army (IRA) on Al-Aqsa TV, December 4, 2006. An excerpt of this clip is available on MEMRITV.

"All our meetings [with the IRA] were productive, and most of all the meeting held in Ireland, where we met the leaders of Sinn Fein, which is the political branch of the IRA. We had a long dialogue with them. We were hosted by their top leaders. We held this dialogue with them, and they tried to pass on their experience to us, because they have been struggling since 1920, when they began talking... After many years of armed resistance, they began a peaceful dialogue with the British."