[Jerusalem Post] Khaled Abu Toameh - The assassination over the weekend of sheikh Adnan Manasreh, 30, in Gaza City has brought to the surface a recent power struggle between Hamas and a new al-Qaeda-affiliated group identified with Salafism - a branch of Islam often referred to as Wahhabi. The Salafis have been trying to establish a presence in Gaza and at least two other Salafi sheikhs have been killed in Gaza and the West Bank over the past six months. Tensions between the Salafis and Hamas have been mounting in Gaza ever since Ayman Zawahiri, the No. 2 in al-Qaeda, accused Hamas of abandoning its ideology and "selling out" to Israel and the U.S.
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