The fundamentalist Islamic terrorist group Hamas is facing a currency shortage, now that it’s former allies in Egypt’s dethroned Muslim Brotherhood were removed from power in a military coup.

The Gaza authoritarian regime faces an even bigger financial crisis ahead, now that Egypt is intent on building a security zone to stop smuggling activities by Hamas and its supporters into Gaza.

Hamas spokesman Ehab al-Ghsain in Gaza sees the situation differently.
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According to a document that the Washington Post says it obtained from former CIA contractor Edward Snowden, in a certain group of people who sought jobs with the CIA had backgrounds that raised questions, “roughly one out of every five had “significant terrorist and/or hostile intelligence connections.’”

These connections reportedly included ties to Hamas, Hezbollah, al Qaeda, and other known Islamist terrorist groups.
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