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| IDF suspects infiltrators were Syrian soldiers |
| 2003-01-08 |
| The IDF said Wednesday afternoon that initial investigations suggest that the terrorists who tried to infiltrate Israel's northern border was a group of Syrian soldiers, Army Radio reported. IDF troops killed one of the militants that tried to enter the country from the meeting point of the Syrian, Jordanian and Israeli borders in the southern Golan Heights near Kibbutz Metzer on Wednesday. Troops injured another terrorist from the cell, who was taken for questioning. Israeli giggle juice is world famous No IDF troops were injured. Settlements in the area were put on alert, and large security forces were sent to conduct searches. It is the first time in many months that terrorists have tried to infiltrate Israel in this area. IDF troops killed two Palestinians in separate incidents in the West Bank and Gaza Strip early Wednesday and demolished the home of a suspected militant, the army and Palestinian witnesses said. In the Khan Yunis refugee camp in Gaza, troops killed a Palestinian taxi driver, Iman Mohammed Hamidak, 33, who was watching Israeli tanks moving through the area when he was shot, Palestinian witnesses said. His brother Nazmi, 15, was moderately injured in the attack. The army said soldiers were removing brush used by militants as cover when firing on troops. Gunmen attacked the force with anti-tank missiles, gunfire and grenades and soldiers returned fire but did not know if they had hit anyone, the army added. Guess you did The IDF has been carrying out operations in Gaza and the West Bank almost every night, arresting suspected militants or destroying structures. Early Tuesday, three Palestinians were killed in a fierce exchange of fire between gunmen and Israeli forces in the same area. In the West Bank village of Seide, IDF troops demolished a two-story house belonging to a suspected militant, who is under arrest in Israel. In the morning, residents went to look at the rubble and troops in the house fired to disperse the crowd, killing 17-year-old Ahmed Ajaj, Palestinian witnesses and officials said. The troops had blown up a house belonging to Osama Ashkar, a militant with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a group affiliated with PA Chairman Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. Twelve people lived in the house, Palestinian officials said. Ashkar was responsible for dispatching a gunman who killed five people, including a mother and her two young sons, in a shooting rampage on kibbutz Metzer, the army said. He also planned and provided weapons for a separate attack on the Hermesh settlement in the West Bank in which three Israelis were killed, the army added. And now he's just another prisoner without a home |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 Instapundit's thinking of making the coming Iraq invasion a twofer. That's a bit of wishful thinking; it would take more than this to make an invasion of Syria justifiable, but if the Syrians make any move to help the Iraqis, all bets are off. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-01-09 09:28:11 |
| #1 oh, no, he has a home. It's nice and cozy, concrete, well lit at all hours and secure, and visitors at all times of the day...sometimes they bring medication...heh heh |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-01-08 18:37:00 |