PA Terrorists Won't Hand Over Weapons

We've repeatedly blogged on the inability of Abbas to disarm the terrorists. We asked last week whether he would flinch once again on tackling the terrorists who shot up his compount. Well, here's a report from Ha-Aretz that indicates he's up for a fight.

"We agreed to hide our weapons, to keep them out of public view, but we are not going to hand them over to the Palestinian Authority," said Kamal Ghanem, an Al Aqsa fugitive. "They asked them to give us the serial numbers of our guns, but we did not."

Hamas and Islamic Jihad spokesmen also said Wednesday that the groups would not hand over weapons.

"We stopped using these weapons after the declaration of quiet, despite the daily violations (of the truce) by Israel," said Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman. He said a demand that gunmen hand over their weapons "is not acceptable."