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Israeli troops kill Islamic Jihad leader
2008-01-16
ISRAELI troops have killed the head of the armed wing of the radical Islamic Jihad movement in the West Bank in a gunbattle today. Walid Abeidi, 40, was shot dead during heavy exchanges of fire with Israeli troops who had encircled his house in the village of Qabatiya near the northern West Bank town of Jenin, security sources said. There was no immediate reaction from the Israeli army.
That's the actual news contained in the article. The remainder is opinionated boilerplate.
The raid comes one day after the deadliest single day of violence in a year in the Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces killed 19 Palestinians, including the son of a top Hamas leader, and Palestinian militants shot dead a civilian inside Israel.
This guy was IJ, not Hamas. It's doubtful this was an anniversary celebration.
The Israeli army carries out near daily raids in the impoverished Gaza Strip, where the Islamic Hamas movement seized power in June 2006, in a bid to curb rocket fire against southern Israel.
This operation, however, was in the West Bank, and it wasn't against Hamas.
The violence erupted after Israeli and Palestinians renewed peace talks on the most sensitive issues of the Middle East conflict with the hope of reaching an agreement by the end of the year.
The Israeli violence, however, wasn't the result of the talks. The Islamic Jihad violence, on the other hand, is an attempt to derail any talks and to negate any agreements that may be reached.
It also came on the heels of US President George W Bush's visit to the region aimed at garnering Arab support for the peace process.
Therefore George Bush shot Walid Abeidi, if only by proxy. Good proxy shootin', G.W.!
Since November, more than 115 Palestinians, most of them militants, have been killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip alone, according to an AFP count.
If most of them were militants, then the IDF would seem to be being careful about collateral damage, wouldn't they?
Today's death brings to 6070 the number of people killed since the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000, the vast majority of them Palestinians, according to an AFP tally.
And the vast majority of the Paleostinians bumped off hard boyz.
Posted by:tipper

#12  You guys ever discuss the bigger issues instead of blabbering on about this or that specific incident only to opine inanely about it?

Yes, but not in a public forum. Some of us do 'big picture' stuff for a living.

I mean, do you really believe there is a WOT? I don't think you do. Not the smart ones anyway. The smart ones are just playing along with that ridiculous characterization.

Depends what you mean by 'smart'. If you mean 'cynical' or 'of the correct political persuasion' or 'safely ensconced in Toronto', well, then of course one wouldn't.

Frankly, the word 'Terror' is overused. It could be termed a War on Fascist Islamism. IMNSHO, it's a War of the 'Worlds'. It's been going on for generations, not necessarily two cohesive groups of opponents, and some have dropped out or changed (like the Soviets, for instance). One could almost term it as the After-Effects of the Cold War.

Then again, given your diatribes, it's likely you don't believe that existed either.
Posted by: Pappy   2008-01-16 22:42  

#11  I agree w/wakeupdead. The WOT is not intelligible it should be called the War on Islamic-facism. Terror is just the tactic, the teachings of islam having inherent facist leanings ought to be the target (or at least those that preach such). Anyways, since we owe you pussies for 1979 I could really care less if Hormuz was a staged event (FTR it wasn't but lets not have facts get in the way). If it means a chance to have Short Round meet the man I'm game for that gig.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2008-01-16 22:13  

#10  wakeup is a regular pro-iranian stooge tool. supporting a regime that regularly employs terrorism due to its' lack of military capacity
Posted by: Frank G   2008-01-16 21:42  

#9  wakeupbeautiful, if you are so highly intelligent, how come you don't know how to use grammer properly?
Posted by: Whomong Guelph4611   2008-01-16 21:28  

#8  You guys ever discuss the bigger issues instead of blabbering on about this or that specific incident only to opine inanely about it?

One of the secrets to your success is lack of context. That plays so well with many. Just incidents and blabbering about them.

Ever post articles challenging the very idea that a WOT is even intelligible?

I mean, do you really believe there is a WOT? I don't think you do. Not the smart ones anyway. The smart ones are just playing along with that ridiculous characterization.

P.S. Check out this. A VERY badly played moment in the "WOT". But you guys knew that too didn't you?:

How The Pentagon Planted a False Hormuz Story

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40801




Posted by: wakeupbeautiful   2008-01-16 20:52  

#7  maybe it was supposed to be 60-70 and they typo'ed the number???

/sarc
Posted by: Abu do you love   2008-01-16 19:21  

#6  How big a fish is this guy? Iwould think it's a big hit if he was the head of the "un-official" wing of IJ, but how many have we gone through over the years? I think at least a dozen. I'm actually suprised how Walid is. I didn't think anyone that old hadn't been helizapped.
Posted by: Charles   2008-01-16 17:25  

#5  I understand they're 80% illiterate, that explains it.(No number teaching in the Koran, makes it 100%)
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-01-16 14:36  

#4  lol! Ruthless inline.
Posted by: Whomong Guelph4611   2008-01-16 13:49  

#3  Too many fluffy bunnies to count 'em all, Bobby.
Posted by: Steve White   2008-01-16 13:46  

#2  Sounds like a successfull hunt. Nice work lads.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2008-01-16 09:50  

#1  6070 the number of people killed

So we are to presume that's maybe 70 really bad guys with RPG's in their hands and 6000 innocent women and children.

What about the adorable puppies, cute kitties, fluffy bunnies and baby ducks? You mean, nobody's counting them?
Posted by: Bobby   2008-01-16 06:11  

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