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| Middle East |
| IDF doing some major housecleaning... |
| 2002-09-26 |
| Undercover border police and Shin Bet officers arrested Nidal Anaya, 32, commander of the Aksa Martyrs Brigades Kalkilya branch, Wednesday night. Anaya was responsible for recruiting gunmen and dispatching then to to carry out bombing and shooting attacks against soldiers and civilians in the area. In July, Nidal recruited four suicide bombers for attacks inside the Green Line. The attacks were thwarted at the last minute; security forces arrested the four terrorists. Poor Nidal. He puts all that time into working his way into middle management, up from the gunny ranks, and now this... The IDF revealed yesterday that one of the nine Palestinians killed during the IDF incursion into Gaza City early Tuesday morning was Nissian Naif Nasser, 40, a senior Hamas military commander and master bomb maker. Now he's a good-looking corpse. Or what's left of him is... In the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, security forces arrested a number of men wanted for terrorist activities and demolished the homes of several Hamas and Islamic Jihad members who were responsible for killing civilians. Several buildings used to carry out attacks were also destroyed. Eleven Palestinians were arrested in Beitunya, A-Dik, southeast of Kalkilya, Hebron, Tulkarm, and in Kibbiyah, west of Ramallah. Guess it's safe to go out on the streets there for a day or two, until their replacements take over... Security forces destroyed a number of homes belonging to terrorists yesterday: The home of Abed al-Halak Hassen Natshe, the head of Hamas in Hebron who recently arrested, was demolished. The army said Natshe was responsible for planning and dispatching the terrorists who killed four civilians, including a five-year-old girl, and wounded eight in Adora on April 27. He also dispatched the terrorist who Killed two soldiers and a civilian and wounded five in Karmei Tzur on June 8. I like the idea of killing thugs who murder 5-year-olds in their beds... Soldiers also demolished the home of Islamic Jihad member Ziab Abd a-Rahman a-Shweik, who was responsible for the attack on a vehicle belonging to the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) on March 26. Two TIPH members were killed and a third was wounded. That's why the Paleos have been hollering for international peacekeepers. They used up the ones we sent 'em... In Dura, west of Hebron, soldiers demolished the homes of Hamas members Anis Mahmud Taleb Namora and his brother Ikram Mahmud, both of whom are already in custody. They detonated a bomb in the southern Hebron Hills which killed Capt. Shai Shalom Cohen on July 8, 2001 and another bomb near the Adurayim Base on May 14, 2001 which wounded two policemen. The Namoras' father, a former mayor of Dura, said security forces gave him five minutes warning and didn't allow him to take his books or computer out of the house. He told reporters, "look, my sons didn't attack Israeli civilians, they didn't attack restaurants they attacked armed soldiers occupying our land and persecuting our people. My sons are not terrorists, they are freedom fighters." Now they're in the calaboose, aren't they? In the Gaza Strip, soldiers demolished three empty buildings near Netzarim used to carry out attacks. Inside, soldiers had found anti-tank rockets ready for use, and other weapons. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 Woops, this comment was meant for the post below. |
| Posted by: PJ 2002-09-26 18:00:14 |
| #1 I like a missle in the forehead of a terrorist as much as the next guy, but PBS said out of 70 or so terrorists "whacked" by the IDF, there were 50+ civilian casualties. Numbers like those makes me think they should reconsider dropping heavy ordinance in an apartment complex, or fire missles on crowded streets. If we had to endure the same amount of terror as Israel, we might lower our threshold for action as well. But I can't help but think there is a more effective way to act on their intelligence. Effective meaning less civilians exploding. |
| Posted by: PJ 2002-09-26 17:55:32 |