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2008-12-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

IAF air strikes target Hamas centers at Islamic University

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Posted by lotp 2008-12-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 School's out at "Terrorist U"...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-12-29 13:22|| 2008-12-29 13:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Two laboratories in the university, which served as research and development centers for Hamas's military wing, were targeted. The development of explosives, IDF sources said, was done under the auspices of university lecturers. Officials said that the explosives developed and manufactured in the labs were used to make sophisticated explosive devices and mortars used against Israel. Many Hamas officials graduated from the university.

University buildings, they said, were also used for meetings of senior Hamas officials and that rockets and explosives were stored in the buildings. IDF sources said that the strike was approved together with the long list of targets that the cabinet had approved last week.

"This is a strategic blow to Hamas," one official explained. "It is a blow to their development capability and will make it more difficult for them to manufacture explosives and new Kassam rockets."

Looks like another serious setback for Gaza's Space Program...

Posted by tu3031 2008-12-29 14:03|| 2008-12-29 14:03|| Front Page Top

#3 the Gaza Space program... they just need to explore the vacuum between their ears... and the cold dark blackness of their ideology.

Posted by Abu do you love">Abu do you love 2008-12-29 15:21|| 2008-12-29 15:21|| Front Page Top

#4 thinking a bit more... maybe we should send 55gr fmj probes into said vacuum

Posted by Abu do you love">Abu do you love 2008-12-29 15:25|| 2008-12-29 15:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Abu - I'd gladly approve "loaning" the Israeli Air Force a couple of AC-130s, and let them fill that vacuum with 7.62 dragonfire.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-12-29 16:48|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-12-29 16:48|| Front Page Top

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