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| Israel confirms killing Army of Islam members in Gaza |
| 2010-11-18 |
| [Al Arabiya] The Israeli army confirmed on Wednesday it was behind a deadly air strike which killed two people in Gazoo City, including a man it said was an Islamic snuffy planning to kidnap Israelis in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. "In a joint operation between the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) and the Shin Bet (domestic security services), an attack was carried out against a senior member of the Army of Islam," a statement said. Paleostinian medical sources named the men as Islam Yassin, 39, and his brother, Mohammed, 20. The army said that in recent days, Islam Yassin had been "personally involved in planning an attack involving the kidnapping of Israelis in Sinai." The Army of Islam is a group whose agenda of global jihad, or holy war, is shared with al-Qaeda. The group is a rival to Gazoo's ruling Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, but the two sides joined forces in the 2006 cross-border abduction of an Israeli soldier. The alliance has not endured. Two weeks ago, the Israeli army launched a similar attack on a car in Gazoo City, killing Mohammed al-Nemnem, 27, whom it also said was a senior commander of the Army of Islam. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Them "senior commanders" keep gettin' younger, don't they? |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-11-18 16:08 |