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Hamas claims suicide mission try on booby-trapped raft
A Palestinian suicide bomber was killed Friday morning when an naval patrol boat fired at his small, booby-trapped boat, causing it to explode, a leaflet issued by the Islamic militant Hamas movement in Gaza said. The leaflet named the bomber as Mahmoud al-Jeemasi, an activist of Hamas' military wing Iz a-Din al-Qassem in his mid-twenties. It said al-Jeemasi had been on a mission to carry out a suicide attack. The leaflet spoke of a small boat, contradicting an initial report by IDF sources that the navy had fired at an unmanned, booby-trapped raft. Poor Mahmoud, didn't kill anyone, so he only rates a leaflet. "We did not see anyone on the raft. We also fired in the air beforehand and nobody saw any person jumping into the water or move," an IDF source said. The sources had initially said no one was injured in the explosion, which occurred about four kilometres off the shore of the northern Gaza Strip settlement of Dugit Friday morning. It happened in the same area where a booby-trapped Palestinian fishing boat rammed into an Israeli naval boat two months ago, killing the militant steering the boat and lightly injuring four Israeli soldiers. Booby and Palestinian seem to go together. Posted by: Steve 2003-01-17 |
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