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Israel-Palestine
Mahmoud Zahar perdition countdown
2004-04-27
EFL. Hat tip LGF
Mahmoud Zahar, a 53-year-old Egyptian-trained physician whose son was killed in an Israeli airstrike, was identified by Israel on Monday as the new Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip. Israeli officials signaled he won’t be targeted for death if the militant group halts suicide attacks.
Better accept Jesus quickly there

Hamas, however, refused to reveal the name of its leader for fear he will be assassinated like his two predecessors.
He will be, the next bus boom...
The Palestinian attorney general said he would speed up prosecution of dozens of suspected collaborators with Israel and search for those who helped Israel kill Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantissi on April 17. Fifty-three alleged freedom fighters informers are in Palestinian custody awaiting trial. Rantissi, the successor of Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, himself assassinated by Israel, had taken extreme precautions, but Israel spotted him when he made a rare visit home and killed him in with a missile attack.
"AH you got me! HEY! Where’s my virgins!?"
Hamas declared after Rantissi’s death that it would not disclose the name of his replacement. However, speculation centered on Zahar — Rantissi’s deputy, Yassin’s personal physician and for years one of the most visible and uncompromising Hamas spokesmen. Three Israeli newspapers on Monday identified Zahar as the group’s new leader. Several days ago, Zahar told reporters Hamas would not disclose the name of the new leader but did not deny he had the title. Israel’s military chief, Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon, told the Yediot Ahronot daily the new Hamas leader had inherited the post "automatically" and reluctantly accepted the position. Yaalon also signaled Israel would avoid attacking him as long as the group remains quiet.
Which Hamas almost certainly won’t
Posted by:Korora

#9  Can I change my bid? I want to go back to 2 weeks or less.
Posted by: B   2004-04-27 4:12:43 PM  

#8  www.us-israel.org says he is 59, not 53, but I don't think that means much

It means he's living on borrowed time, but we knew that already. ;)
Posted by: Cthulhu Akbar   2004-04-27 10:52:58 AM  

#7  Happpy Independence Day Anti-War!
Posted by: Shipman   2004-04-27 8:42:56 AM  

#6   A4052 - Yes it does - the older he gets the less fun he'll manage to have with all those virgin teenagers.
Posted by: Howard UK   2004-04-27 5:26:03 AM  

#5  From UK Guardian -

Mahmoud Zahar, believed by many Palestinians to be the new leader of Hamas in Gaza, is the last remaining founding member of the organisation. All the others who created Hamas in 1988 have since been killed by Israeli security forces, two of them in the past month.


Also,
www.us-israel.org says he is 59, not 53, but I don't think that means much
Posted by: Anonymous4052   2004-04-27 1:36:42 AM  

#4  


Mahmoud Zahar (1945-2004)

Heeere's Mahmi'

Posted by: Anonymous4052   2004-04-27 1:31:41 AM  

#3  Sign me up for 46 days.
Posted by: Tibor   2004-04-27 1:29:48 AM  

#2  speed up prosecution of dozens of suspected collaborators HeHe! Israel is following a long tradition of pretending your technical intelligence is human intelligence, and then sit back and watch the enemy tear itself apart trying to find the spies (that don't exist).
Posted by: Phil B   2004-04-27 1:26:36 AM  

#1  WOT futures ....I'd like to say less than 2 weeks, but to be safe, I think I'll go for 2 months.
Posted by: B   2004-04-27 1:22:06 AM  

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