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| Middle East |
| Hamas upgrades its explosives knowhow |
| 2003-02-23 |
| Hamas has upgraded the organization's equipment for terror in Israel. Hamas had up til recently used triacetonetriperoxide (TATP), which is highly explosive, for its major ingredient, but has now begun using urea nitrate. Informed sources said that this would make a significant improvement, particularly in helping to reduce accidents that occur in bomb-preparations, and to allow for larger and more devastating explosives. The method has also since been copied by other Palestinian organizations. Fewer work accidents? Too bad... The possibility that Hamas or Hezbollah may have managed to smuggle unknown agents into Israel or the territories cannot be ruled out. Last June in Hebron, Israel arrested a Hezbollah agent, Fowzi Ayub, who had entered the country on a forged American passport. Ayub, a Lebanese Shiite Muslim, holds Canadian citizenship. Ayub flew to Israel from Europe and spent some time in a hotel in downtown Jerusalem. He was arrested by the Palestinians in Hebron, but later released. At some stage, he lost his passport, and was captured by the Israel Defense Forces. Just by coincidence, of course... Dontcha hate it when that happens? It is known that Ayub had at least one person accompanying him in Israel, helping him on his mission. The agents that Hezbollah has attempted, sometimes successfully, to smuggle into Israel are apparently members of the Islamic Jihad Squad, headed by Ahmad Muhanna, one of the most wanted men in the world for his involvement in mass terror attacks in Lebanon and Argentina in the 1980s and 1990s. The Islamic Jihad Squad (Tanzim al-Jihad al-Islami) was a small group of Islamic Jihad militants led by Ahmad Muhanna. These militants were imprisoned in Israel for violent activities in the framework of a PLO off-shoot, the Palestinian Popular Liberation Forces (Quwat Tahrir al-Sha`biyyah al-Filastiniyyah), who became Islamists in the late 1970s under the leadership of Jaber `Ammar. Ahmad Muhanna split from this group and during the 1980s was active mainly from Sudan and was also involved in Islamist militant activity in Egypt. The faction carried out a terrorist attack in Egypt against an Israeli tourist bus in Northern Sinai, on February 4, 1990.This offshoot of the Hezbollah is given a free rein in assisting the Palestinians in their struggle against Israel. In the summer of 2001, three Hezbollah activists were arrested in Jordan for their involvement in trying to smuggle Katyusha rockets into Israel. The three are the most senior active Hezbollah cell that has been caught. The links between Hezbollah and Hamas are becoming more clear, or maybe they're becoming tighter as Hamas snuggles closer to Iran... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #4 Probably got the smuggled ingredients from the blockade of Arafat's |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-02-23 21:23:57 |
| #3 Although "Commander Robot" and "Commander Rambo" were an inspired touch, you have to admit. |
| Posted by: Crescend 2003-02-23 15:06:43 |
| #2 Better than the "Kamikaze Shahids." |
| Posted by: Crescend 2003-02-23 15:02:29 |
| #1 Oh my. The Islamic Jihad Squad. Where do they get these names? |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2003-02-23 13:41:22 |