UPDATE: Story now picked up by WND’s Aaron Klein, Hamas: We met Obama advisers

Per Israel Today (excerpt)…

In an interview with London-based pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat, Hamas spokesman Ahmad Yousef said that Obama’s advisors traveled to the Gaza Strip to meet with the group’s leadership months ago when he was still campaigning for the presidency.

Said Yousef: “We first made contact on the Internet and then met with some of them here in the Gaza Strip. They advised us not to reveal this information lest it influence the elections or become manipulated by [Republican candidate John] McCain’s campaign.”

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