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Engineer 'designed missiles for attacks on Israel'
2005-05-25
ALICANTE — An aeronautical engineer has been arrested for allegedly designing missiles for the Palestinian terrorist organisations Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Marwan Ismail Dahman, who was born in Gaza, in Palestine but is a naturalised Spaniard, was arrested in Benidorm in the Alicante province, the Spanish daily El Pais reported.
He allegedly offered to design a new type of Qasam missile which can potentially be used for attacks on Israel. Police sources said plans for the missile design, which had been sent by fax to the two Palestinian terrorist organisations were found in Dahman's house. Dahman was helping to improve the design of the Qasam 2 missile.
Days earlier, the Israeli army had killed the original designer of this type of missile, Adnan al Ghul, in Gaza.
Posted by:Steve

#13  Liverpool European Football Champs !!!
Posted by: Liverpool !!!   2005-05-25 17:28  

#12  S
Posted by: VOTE   2005-05-25 17:06  

#11  LOL Amusing find there tu3031
Posted by: sea cruise   2005-05-25 19:05  

#10  And look who reimbursed the rental company:

El Farouk Co. for Renting Cars
Gaza Remal – Charles De Gaulle Str.
Telephone: 08-2842755 Fax: 08-2838887

To the President of the State of Palestine, Yasser Arafat,

Allow me to inform you that the martyr Bilal ‘Adnan Al-Ghul rented from our company a gray Toyota car, model 2000. However, the occupying forces bombed the car with missiles from an Apache helicopter, destroying completely the car and Bilal was killed in this action.
We are requesting from you to help us with a payment for the cost of the car, which is valued at $16,000.

Sincerely,
El Farouk Co. for Renting Cars

[A note follows in the handwriting of Arafat]:
To the Ministry of Finance – please pay $9,000
18/9/01

Note: Bilal ‘Adnan Al-Ghul – the son of ‘Adnan Al-Ghul, a senior operational activist of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and involved in the Hamas arms production network. Balal was killed in an assassination attempt on his father on 22 August 2001. His father, ‘Adnan Al-Ghul, was mentioned in the interrogation of Yusuf Mikdad as a member of the Hamas squad that carries out mortar bomb firing. Yusuf Mikdad, at the order of his commander Nabil Hudhud, was requested to join this squad in order to fire mortar bombs.


http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/bu/capt/capt_a.doc

A helluva interesting website by the way...
Posted by: tu3031   2005-05-25 19:01  

#9  How Israel wasted this guys predecessor
.................


http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,201395-1-9,00.html

Israel kills militants in raid
June 2003

Israel killed three Palestinian militants and a civilian bystander on Friday in an attempt to capture a master Hamas bomb-maker, another blow to efforts to save a troubled new Middle East peace plan.

Blood smeared olive trees outside the family home of Adnan al-Ghul in a Gaza Strip village after the Israeli raid, which reduced the house to rubble. Relatives said al-Ghul was not there at the time and remained "alive and free".

The right-wing Israeli government's persistent "track-and-kill" swoops on militants behind a suicide bombing campaign and the militants' unwillingness to cease fire unless Israel backs off has bedevilled attempts to cement a ceasefire.

The United States, which three weeks ago unfurled the "road map" plan for a Palestinian state co-existing alongside Israel, said on Thursday a ceasefire by militants would not be enough to advance the most ambitious Middle East peace drive for years.

It urged European Union and Arab countries to cut off support for the political wing of the Hamas movement, which has spearheaded a 33-month-old revolt against Israeli occupation.

But Hamas boasts considerable popularity both for "resistance" and welfare services in impoverished Palestinian areas blockaded by Israel, and Palestinian officials said US calls to crush the movement could provoke civil war.

Witnesses said Israeli troops swept into the village of Mughraqa in central Gaza before dawn on Friday and surrounded the al-Ghul home, precipitating a clash.

They said three helicopter gunships and tanks fired into the area, killing al-Ghul's 15-year-old son and his 21-year-old nephew, both of whom were also Hamas members, as well as an operative of the allied Islamic Jihad faction. (more, click link)

Posted by: sea cruise   2005-05-25 17:53  

#8  Hey, I'll vote for the Mossad.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-05-25 17:36  

#7  Troll, troll, troll your boat...
Posted by: Raj   2005-05-25 17:19  

#6  He look, our old buddy "217.44.146.113" is back!

Cambridge or Oxford?
Posted by: mojo   2005-05-25 17:18  

#5  Somebody want to give The Mossad VOTE's name?
Posted by: tu3031   2005-05-25 17:10  

#4  Mossad has a name. He is toast.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2005-05-25 16:59  

#3  Can somebody cause a little "accident"? Like maybe ol' Marwan ending up getting bumped off, or suffering some sort of brain damage?
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-05-25 15:52  

#2  It will be interesting to see if he is actually convicted, and whether Spain thereafter strips him of his citizenship and deports him.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-05-25 15:41  

#1  born in Gaza, in Palestine

WITP mentioned in the article?
Posted by: Shipman   2005-05-25 15:20  

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