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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas battle Dogmushes: 11 dead

2008-09-16

Them Dogmushes is gettin a little too cocky. Time to show them who's boss...
Hamas forces assaulted the compound of a heavily armed Gaza clan early Tuesday, sparking a fierce street battle that killed 11 people in fighting throughout the night, Hamas officials said. Two bystanders, including a young boy, were among the dead.
Dogmushes! Drop ya rods and c'mon out!
Come n get us coppers!
Okay, Al-Muldoon. Give em the gas.
BAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAM....
Machine-gun fire and explosions were heard around the Gaza City neighborhood home to the Doghmush clan, a notorious family with links to both terror and criminal groups. Members of the clan were responsible for kidnapping a British Broadcasting Corp. journalist last year.

Since violently taking over Gaza last year, Hamas has moved to establish order in Gaza's once-chaotic streets and eliminate groups who could threaten its rule. Eleven people died in early August in a clash between Hamas forces and another clan aligned with its Fatah rivals.
Any killin to be done around here, we'll do it.
Hamas launched the assault shortly after midnight, hours after a member of the Doghmush clan killed a policeman while resisting police. The fighting erupted after the clan refused to turn the man over, said Interior Ministry spokesman Ihab Ghussen, and continued for about nine hours.
Give him up, ya dirty rats!
Eat lead coppers!
BAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAM...
Eight members of the family and one policeman were killed in the fighting, along with the two bystanders, he said. The age of the boy was not immediately known. Forty people were wounded, he added.
Look how dey massacred my boy!
No immediate confirmation was available from the Doghmush clan. Earlier, the family posted an announcement on a Gaza Web site saying several of its members were hurt.
They got a website? Will have to try and find that.
"Explosions and shooting are coming from all directions. The sky is raining bullets, and my children are terrified and they are screaming," one local resident said as the fighting raged. A 55-year-old father of five, he gave his name only as Ziad because he did not want to draw the attention of the clan or of the authorities.
Except for the occcasional intense firefights, they were very quiet people. Please don't kill me.
The battle raged outside the house of a senior Hamas leader, Mahmoud Zahar, who lives in the same neighborhood.
Watch where you're shooting there flatfoot. Do you know who I am?
The fiercely independent and widely feared Doghmush clan includes members close to Hamas's Fatah opponents, as well as members of Islamic militias that have been allied with Hamas.
Maybe next time they could just shoot each other?
Those gunmen took part in the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit in a cross-border raid in 2006 and others who seized BBC journalist Alan Johnston and held him for nearly four months last year.
Independent contractors, if you will...

Posted by:tu3031

#7 This was in Time a coulpa months ago...

Dont Cry for Dead Bad Guys. Dont be fooled by their impressive name -- the Army of Islam. These members of the Dagmush clan spread fear in Gaza through their extortions and kidnappings. (Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit still in Gaza captivityand BBCs Alan Johnston passed through their grimy hands.) A Palestinian friend recalled that when a Dagmush kid tried to steal a bike from the neighborhood and was chased off, the kid came back with his scary older brothers who demanded the bike. They gave it to him.

So, for once, Gazans were grateful for an Israeli missile strike. On Wednesday, the day before the truce, an Israeli aircraft blasted a car carrying three Army of Islam commanders. Hamas chiefs werent too upset over this, either. After the BBC man was freed, Hamas quietly began cracking down on the Army of Islam. Their fighters kept turning up dead or simply vanishing. Rumors were that clan leader Mumtaz Dagmush was planning an attack on the Israelis to prove his Jihadi credentials and to get funds from rich Arab extremists in the Gulf. Dagmush had flirted with al Qaeda, not out of ideology, but because as a brand name al Qaeda has a certain cache in the Arab world, and accessibility to cash.

Martyrs funerals are great social events. In fact, going to funerals is one of the major pastimes in Gaza, though maybe that will change now that the truce has started. The death of a Hamas militant brings a thousand men into the streets, shooting guns into the air and shouting Allah is Great.

The Dagmush were expecting a big crowd for the three Army of Islam guys killed by the Israelis. They had huge posters of the victims faces, floating above the Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem. They also cordoned off the street traffic and erected a long tent with hundreds of plastic chairs for mourners. The tent was empty saved for a few old men, probably the dead mens fathers and uncles.

See? says my friend, whose son had the run-in with the Dagmush kid over the stolen bike. Everybody in Gaza hates them. He adds: For once the Israelis did us a favor.

Posted by: tu3031 2008-09-16 14:01

#6 There is potential for a very rewarding cultural exchange program here.

Posted by: Grunter 2008-09-16 13:51

#5 Grunter, I believe it's acyually Dagmush. We take poetic liscense with the name here.

Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-09-16 12:29

#4 On Monday, Jameel Doghmush killed a Hamas policeman and wounded another officer when they tried to arrest him near a market in Gaza city. The slain, Abdel Kareem Abu Khziq, is Hamas' 12th member to be killed by Doghmush family since Hamas won parliamentary elections in 2006. The 13th one was killed later this morning during the clashes to dismantle the clan's stronghold.

Though it took less than 12 hours, the battle to take control of Doghmush family was tense and Hamas succeeded to kill Jameel Doghmush who is accused of killing another Hamas police officer last June.

Posted by: tu3031 2008-09-16 12:19

#3 I tried " Dogmush.com" , just a bunch of Alaskan dog sledders.

Posted by: Grunter 2008-09-16 12:14

#2 GazaMaanTwelve people, including a police officer and a young girl, were killed in clashes between de facto government security forces and members of the Dughmush clan in Gaza on Tuesday morning. Sources from police department confirmed that Jamil, Ibrahim and Saeb Doghmush were killed during the raid.

Eyewitnesses said that they saw body of a few months year old girl in Ash-Shifa hospital in Gaza who appeared to have lost her head. She is said to be daughter of Abu Al-Qassem Doghmush, the leader of the An-Nasser Brigades, and armed group close to Hamas.

Fatah spokesperson Fahmi Az-Zaarir condemned what he called a massacre by Hamas forces against the Dughmush family. He said in a statement: These shameful practices of Hamas in the holy month of Ramadan are definite proof that Hamas lost all humanitarian and religious values.

Another Fatah leader, Ziad Abu 'Ein, accused Hamas of war crimes. Urging Arab states to intevene, 'Ein called the de-facto police "gangs," and said Hamas is "willing to make truces with Israel--but not with its own people."

Posted by: tu3031 2008-09-16 11:48

#1 Last year PBS chose to commemorate the anniversary of 9/11 by re-airing "Gaza ER", a shameless Pallywood flackery piece perfectly produced to elicit sympathy for the Oppressed Paleos and loathing for the Zionists. I watched with blood boiling but must admit a certain amount of merriment during the scene where the Gaza hospital director is cowering on the floor of his office, avoiding the window and desperately making phone calls while a mob of raging Dogmush clansmen is howling for his head and Dire Revengeâ¢ from the parking lot below.

Posted by: Seafarious 2008-09-16 11:25

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