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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 tick tick tick Posted by: PlanetDan 2004-09-27 |
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