In the course of its jihadist putsch in Gaza, Hamas took control not only of Fatah's US- and European-financed military arsenal and the CIA and MI-6 intelligence gathering equipment Fatah was lavished with.

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More ominously, they have the ability to shut down vital parts of the global information grid on which the military now depends to carry out every activity, from intelligence gathering to missile defense to equipment maintenance.

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