Hamas breaks up pro-Osama bin Laden rally in Gaza

[Playinghardball]

Source: Reuters via Raw Story

GAZA (Reuters) - Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas on Saturday broke up a Salafist protest against the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a U.S. raid in Pakistan this week.

Dozens of Salafists -- conservative Islamists who have clashed with Hamas -- gathered in Gaza City's main square holding up posters of bin Laden and chanting "We warn you America, we warn you Europe."

Some banners read "We are all your soldiers Osama" and "Osama is alive inside us."

Hamas police forces cordoned off the square, stopped protesters from marching through the streets and ordered them to leave.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/07/hamas-breaks-up-pro-osama-bin-laden-rally-in-gaza/

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/hamas-police-break-up-pro-bin-laden-rally-in-gaza-1.360382

[karnac]

1. This is confusing. didn't Hamas just protest Osama's death?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/02/hamas-osama-bin-laden

Or are they just trying to preserve US funding?

[originalpckelly]

2. They probably don't want the US to have a reason to bomb them.

That would be my guess.