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| Gaza bombing targets home of Shiite terror leader |
| 2016-02-20 |
| [IsraelTimes] No injuries in pre-dawn blast directed at Sheikh Hisham Salem, Iran-backed head of Strip's tiny religious minority A kaboom targeted the home of a leader of a Paleostinian Shiite Muslim movement in the Gazoo Strip early Friday, causing damage but no injuries, the group and security sources said. The pre-dawn blast caused extensive damage at the home of Sheikh Hisham Salem, his Al-Sabireen group said in a statement. Shiite Muslims are a tiny minority among Paleostinians who are almost exclusively Sunni Muslims or Christians. Al-Sabireen, which says it is supported by Iran, accused "the occupier (Israel) and its collaborators." The Israeli army declined to comment on the allegations. Reliable information is difficult to ascertain in Gazoo, which is run by Islamist group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and blockaded by Israel and Egypt. Hamas, a Sunni terror group, seems to want to avoid conflict with Al-Sabireen, although there is no significant Shiite community in Gazoo. Shortly after the kaboom, Gazook security forces went to the scene and opened an investigation to find the perpetrators, security sources said. "We went out and found an bomb placed near the door of the house," said a brother of the leader, Issam Salem, who was in the house at the time of the blast. "The windows of the house and those of a bus were blown out," he told AFP, adding that the kaboom had sent children inside the home into a panic. Al-Sabireen was formed in 2014 by Hisham Salem, a former member of the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group, which also takes inspiration from the Shiite Iranian revolution but which is itself Sunni. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Neighbors mad about a Shiite bringing the property values down? |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2016-02-20 10:05 |
| #3 We know the Jooooos didn't do it. He's still alive |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-02-20 09:23 |
| #2 You won't like me when I'm mad. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-02-20 08:08 |
| #1 Ooops |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-02-20 01:26 |