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2004-09-27 Israel-Palestine
Hamas: Arab State May Have Helped in Syria Killing
The militant Palestinian group Hamas said Monday an Arab country might have helped Israel assassinate one of its leaders in Damascus, an act it called "treason."
uh huh. and they call terrorists "freedom fighters."
A car bomb killed Izz el-Deen al-Sheikh Khalil, 42, and wounded three others Sunday in the Az-Zahera district of Syria's capital. Israeli television quoted unidentified security sources as saying Israel was responsible.
"We can say no more"™
The killing, if carried out by Israel, would be its second foray into Syria in the last year. It was the latest blow to the leadership of an Islamist group responsible for many suicide bombings against Israel and committed to the destruction of the Jewish state.
they might wanna think about re-examining their commitments, seems to me.
"We were not convinced initially, this would be treason for an Arab security apparatus to be involved in this," Hamas Lebanon head Osama Hamdan said of a report in the Al-Hayat daily. The Arabic daily said an Arab country had given the Israeli spy agency Mossad information about the movements and habits of Hamas leaders abroad. "Now, because of what happened yesterday or through other information,
(i.e., precision application of a cluebat)
there are indications that this may be case," he said. Syria accused Israel of "terrorism" after the car bomb and Hamas vowed to retaliate.
Attacking the head of the military wing is not terrorism. It's a battle in a war. Attacking children on a bus or a pizza shop is terrorism. Get it straight.
Palestinian sources in Gaza said Khalil, who Israel deported to Lebanon in 1992, was believed to be in charge of the group's military wing outside the Palestinian territories. Hamas sources in Beirut said he was a mid-level official.
these days, mid-level officials become high-ranking ones quickly, and with alarming regularity!
A spokesman in Gaza for Hamas said the killing was "a cowardly crime by the Zionist Mossad."
cowardly? as opposed to targeting the aforementioned children in pizza shops and buses?
Israeli security officials vowed to renew an assassination campaign against Hamas leaders in Palestinian areas and abroad in response to twin bus bombings on Aug. 31 that killed 16 people in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba. Israel sent warplanes to bomb a suspected Palestinian militant training base in Syria nearly a year ago after a suicide bombing in Israel. Syria's support of anti-Israeli militant factions, both Palestinian and Lebanese, was a key reason for the imposition of U.S. economic sanctions against Damascus in May. Palestinian activists said last week all Palestinian factions with offices in Syria had decided to close to avoid pissing off embarrassing their hosts in view of the increased U.S. pressure on Damascus. In March, Israel killed Hamas's co-founder and spiritual head, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, in a missile strike as he left a mosque in Gaza. His successor, Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi, was killed a month later in a similar Israeli attack in Gaza City.
tick tick tick
Posted by PlanetDan 2004-09-27 11:13:38 AM|| || Front Page|| [11142 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 so who was the Arab nation? Go ahead Hamas - strike them too. We can only hope that the Arabs start fighting each other. Divide and conquer.
Posted by 2B 2004-09-27 12:18:04 PM||   2004-09-27 12:18:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 the Arab country was probably Egypt but maybe Jordan

I don't think any other Arab country has much intel assets in Syria (although it would truly be a hoot if it was Lebanon).
Posted by mhw 2004-09-27 12:29:36 PM||   2004-09-27 12:29:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 mwh..thanks.
Posted by 2B 2004-09-27 12:31:54 PM||   2004-09-27 12:31:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 

Izzy before his "body transformation".

a cowardly crime by the Zionist Mossad?
But we call butchering school kids using dupes who pack themselves with explosives courageous don't we?

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-27 12:33:32 PM||   2004-09-27 12:33:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Hamas: Arab State May Have Helped in Syria Killing

My heart pumps piss.

Permit me to add that such accusations of duplicity provide an unsurpassing degree of fitness with respect to Islamic terrorism in general.
Posted by Zenster 2004-09-27 12:34:14 PM||   2004-09-27 12:34:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Actually, the US and Iraq's new government may be piecing together some of the old Iraqi government's records. And, of course, the terrs may have a strong desire to blame the new Iraqi government, so they can legitimize attacking it.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-09-27 12:41:15 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com]  2004-09-27 12:41:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 In that picture, he looks like Achenar!
Posted by Steve from Relto 2004-09-27 12:44:25 PM||   2004-09-27 12:44:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Haaretz says this is so much bunk - Jordan and Egypt may have been giving background help to Israel, but not the specific info this article says. Alternatively somebody could be spreading this deliberately, to get the Syrians to watch their backs.
Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-09-27 12:55:01 PM||   2004-09-27 12:55:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 As long as Hamas thinks it's true, and hopefully acts on it with their usual tact and subtlety...
Posted by Fred  2004-09-27 1:47:07 PM||   2004-09-27 1:47:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Any thought that it might be Syria, itself? They seem to have gotten puckered anuses lately. Perhaps a case of sacrifice a minor pawn and get some points with the US, while you still keep your main line of attack (collusion with Iran) going.
Posted by Mercutio 2004-09-27 2:10:01 PM||   2004-09-27 2:10:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 "Palestinian activists said last week all Palestinian factions with offices in Syria had decided to close.... " More bluff and bullshit - they'll just close and re-open next door. Unless the Syrians are really getting worried enough to act and are putting pressure on the Paleos - pressure being edging them out of their offices and facillitating the killing of the odd Hamas leader.
Posted by Bryan 2004-09-27 3:29:46 PM||   2004-09-27 3:29:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Is there no honor among thieves?
Posted by Jim Bean 2004-09-27 3:34:49 PM||   2004-09-27 3:34:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Long answer.
No.
Posted by Leftenant Gov Curb 2004-09-27 3:58:29 PM||   2004-09-27 3:58:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Mercutio

Probably not Syria. If they wanted to get rid of someone they would have done it quietly. The way the operation was carried out creates shame for Syria and shame is something a dictator wants to avoid at all costs.
Posted by mhw 2004-09-27 4:21:13 PM||   2004-09-27 4:21:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Yo, yo, yo, when rats attack other rats it becomes rather ugly. Sit back and enjoy the show!
Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-09-27 7:19:47 PM||   2004-09-27 7:19:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 At a certain point won't Islamic Jihad and Fatah begin to drop dimes on the Hamas activists as they attempt to win the jackpot for themselves?
Posted by Super Hose 2004-09-27 8:12:25 PM||   2004-09-27 8:12:25 PM|| Front Page Top

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