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| Debka claiming a major hit! |
| 2005-11-01 |
| DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources evaluate the targeted airborne missile attack that killed two top terrorist operatives in Jebalya Tuesday night as comparable in importance to the January 2001 liquidation of Masoud Iyad, Yasser Arafat’s first contact-man with the Hizballah, who also commanded the first mortar shelling of an Israeli location. Hassan Madhun who died Tuesday night was the commander of the Masoud Iyad Platoons of the al Aqsa Brigades. He was also the senior Fatah link with Hizballah and his agents were scattered across the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Madhun operated in the guise of a Palestinian security officer, while ordering the special terrorist unit under his command to execute a string of deadly attacks. His last operation was the drive-by shooting that left three Israeli hitch-hikers dead at the Gush Etzion junction east of Jerusalem on Oct. 16. His companion in the vehicle hit by the Israeli rocket, Fawzi Abu Kara of Hamas, was Madhun’s superior in the Palestinian terrorist hierarchy. He was in fact the top Hamas weapons expert who ran the Qassam missile production lines, while managing the missile bombardment of Sderot and other points in the western Negev. He also designed the Gaza Strip tunnel network known to branch east towards - and possibly under - Israeli territory. Hizballah was the matchmaker that forged the Madhun-Abu Kara partnership-for-terror that was finally destroyed Tuesday. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #10 "Israel has started a war with this assassination and it will pay a heavy price," he told AFP,.. So, how many civilians do you plan on killing, scumbag? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-11-01 22:23 |
| #9 More islamists, faster please. Good job Israel. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-11-01 21:53 |
| #8 what's more stupid than a paleo martyr? |
| Posted by: anymouse 2005-11-01 21:50 |
| #7 Like we are not so numb to all these names, that we know who this is about. |
| Posted by: plainslow 2005-11-01 21:42 |
| #6 "Our Paleo Air Force will.....er....shoot indiscriminate rockets and run" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-11-01 21:33 |
| #5 Was Fonzi workin' Hassan's missile at the time? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2005-11-01 20:36 |
| #4 'W'..."Bring It Onnnn...!!" |
| Posted by: smn 2005-11-01 19:45 |
| #3 "Israel has started a war with this assassination and it will pay a heavy price," he told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity shortly after the two militants were killed in an Israeli missile attack on their car. Anonymity is right, heh. Better not sign your name to that statement or you will get a Hellfire aimed at you. Hopefully, Israel will keep hammering the |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-11-01 19:42 |
| #2 Oh oh! SpaceWar Daily: Israeli air strike has 'started war': Hamas What's with this "started"? srael "started a war" with its air strike on northern Gaza that killed a local commander of the armed wing of Hamas and another Palestinian militant leader on Tuesday, a senior Hamas official said. "Israel has started a war with this assassination and it will pay a heavy price," he told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity shortly after the two militants were killed in an Israeli missile attack on their car. The two dead men were named as Fayez Abu al-Qaraa from the armed wing of Hamas and Hassan al-Madhun, a local commander of an armed wing of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which is loosely affiliated to Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party. Qaraa, 38, was the first Hamas member killed in Israel's latest offensive on Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip that was ordered after a deadly Palestinian suicide bombing in northern Israel last Wednesday. The two were killed instantly when an Israeli aircraft fired a missile into their car, also injuring at least 10 civilians. "There is no way we can speak about any quiet (period) faced with these continuous occupation crimes," Hamas's armed wing said, although it did not specify whether it was abandoning a de facto truce observed since late January. Israel would be made to "repent of this crime", the group vowed in a statement. "Our commander's blood weighs heavily on us and we will answer with blood for blood," it said. "You will see, not hear our response. The only language the enemy understands is war." |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-11-01 19:28 |
| #1 More, Faster. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2005-11-01 18:50 |