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Israeli air strike kills leader of al Qaeda affiliate in Gaza |
2011-12-30 |
Israel killed the leader of an al Qaeda-inspired faction in an air strike on the Gaza Strip on Friday, accusing him of launching short-range rockets into the Jewish state. Militants identified the man as Momen Abu Daf of the Army of Islam, part of a loose network of Palestinian groups that profess allegiance to al Qaeda and which have been reinforced by radical Salafi volunteers from neighbouring Egypt. Abu Daf was killed when a missile hit Gaza City's Zeitoun neighbourhood, the Hamas administration said. Five other Palestinians were wounded and one of them needed hospital treatment, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. In a statement, the Israeli military said its aircraft "targeted a terrorist squad that was identified moments before firing rockets at Israel from the northern Gaza Strip". Those militants, the statement said, were "responsible for the firing of rockets at Israel in the past few days". Salafis attack Israel in defiance of truce efforts by Hamas, which practices a more politically accommodating Islamism though it also preaches the destruction of Israel. That sentence is one of the best examples of double-speak I've ever seen Roooters assemble. |
Posted by:tipper |
#4 I hear the locals grabbed up the corpse and wrapped it in a black AQ flag. No doubt they'll have a big funeral for the disgusting pig. How about bombing it? |
Posted by: mojo 2011-12-30 12:36 |
#3 As much as I am happy they got him, the reality is that these people are easy to replace.  Tipping points, BernardZ-- if enough are killed quickly enough, the activity loses its savour. It's fun to talk big to impress the girls, but something else when all one gets is smeared into the dusty rubble without getting anywhere near a target. No streets are named after someone who dies ineffectively. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2011-12-30 06:32 |
#2 Yea, but pilots have to practice for Iran, BernardZ. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-12-30 05:37 |
#1 As much as I am happy they got him, the reality is that these people are easy to replace. |
Posted by: BernardZ 2011-12-30 05:27 |