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New head of Hamas in Israel's sights
The Times (UK) ^
| 4/19/04
| Richard Beeston
Posted on 04/18/2004 5:04:54 PM PDT by saquin
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Mahmoud Zahar
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:04:54 PM PDT
by
saquin
To: saquin
Soon to be overheard in Hamas HQ:
"No, no. You be chief. Hamas needs you now in this time of trouble."
"No, please, I insist. You've planned more bombings than I, praise Allah. It is your right. Your duty!"
"No, YOU be chief!"
"NO, YOU!"
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:10:31 PM PDT
by
pogo101
To: saquin
Dead Man Walking
To: saquin
Pretty good "BEFORE" picture...let's see what he looks like a couple weeks from now. (Hint: Alpo)
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:13:21 PM PDT
by
MarineDad
To: saquin
I'm surprised he hasn't be labelled a moderate yet. Guess it's time to change my tag (formerly "Waiting for Hamas to announce the name of the IDF's next target..."), though.
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_article=594&x_context=2 Mahmoud al-Zahar
Israel has also targeted, but failed to kill Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahar. (Sept. 10, 2003.) Before the attack on al-Zahar, he was quoted in the New York Times praising the March 2002 Passover attacks against Israel:
Forty were killed and 200 injured in just two operations,al-Zahar said with a smile. (April 4, 2002.)
Al-Zahar once explained to the BBC that all Israelis are militants ... [there are] no civilian Israelis. (Oct 3, 2001)
To: saquin
Well it's a good thing for Dr. Mahmoud Zahar that his appointment was kept secret : )
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:14:15 PM PDT
by
BCrago66
To: saquin
Wonder what he looks like with his brains splattered on the pavement.
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:15:09 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(Mahmoud Zahar, step right up! You're the next contestant on "Who wants to field test a Hellfire?")
To: saquin
What's the over/under on the day of his "early retirement?"
To: saquin
Hopefully we won't have long to wonder what's behind that furrowed brow.
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:17:27 PM PDT
by
Agnes Heep
(Solus cum sola non cogitabuntur orare pater noster)
To: saquin
...said Dr. Zahar, "Hamas cannot be defeated. Hamas cannot be broken."Same thing Hitler said about his "thousand year Reich."
To: Alouette; Salem; SJackson
Shhhh! It's a secret!
To: BCrago66
"The appointment of Dr Mahmoud Zahar, 53, was kept secret"
Well Gee... That really worked. LOL
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:18:52 PM PDT
by
Betaille
("Show them no mercy, for none shall be shown to you")
To: saquin
If Hamas violence ends now, the new leader will be okay.
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:19:39 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
To: saquin
Mahmoud Zahar.........Next!
To: saquin
let's start a deadpool!
i'll begin:
Mahmoud Zahar will be
assassinated by 6/1/2004
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:21:43 PM PDT
by
vp_cal
To: saquin
Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar smiles from his hospital bed in Gaza City on Wednesday. An Israeli warplane narrowly failed in an attempt to assassinate Zahar but killed his son and a bodyguard in Gaza City on Wednesday. Reuters photo 9/10/2003
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:22:33 PM PDT
by
jimbo123
To: saquin
Did anyone tell him he has just been chosen to have his head ventilated....err , I mean to be the leader?
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:23:10 PM PDT
by
paul51
To: All
Here's a handly little scorecard provided by the Times:
Rising toll among Hamas leaders
THE assassination highlighted the deadly risk of a leadership role in Hamas arguably the most dangerous job in the world. The most prominent figures in the organisation in recent years have included:
Dead: Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Founder, spiritual leader and figurehead. Quadriplegic, nearly blind and confined to a wheelchair. Established Hamas in February 1988 as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist alternative to Yassir Arafats secular Fatah movement. Killed by Israel on March 22 this year.
Dead: Ismail Abu Shanab. A relative pragmatist within the political leadership. Not a familiar figure at public rallies. Assassinated last August.
Dead: Ibrahim Makadmeh. A senior Hamas strategist, killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza in March last year. Released in October 1997 as part of a deal by Israel to secure the freedom of two Mossad agents who had bungled an assassination attempt on Khaled Mashaal, the head of the groups political office.
Alive: Dr Mahmoud Zahar. Sheikh Yassins personal physician and a relative hardliner within what remains of the senior political hierarchy. Perhaps the most high-profile remaining Hamas leader. He survived one assassination attempt last summer, but his son was killed.
Alive: Ismail Haniya. A relative moderate among the next generation of the Hamas hierarchy. Well known in Gaza. Hamass go-between with the Palestinian Authority.
Dead: Salah Shehada. Head of Hamass military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Killed by a one-tonne bomb in July 2002 that killed up to 17 other Palestinians in Gaza.
Dead: Yehiyeh Ayyash, a master bomb-maker known as The Engineer, was killed by a booby-trapped mobile phone in Gaza in 1996.
Alive: Mohammed Deif. Believed to be Shehadas replacement at the head of Izz al-Din. Israels most-wanted man and in permanent hiding.
Alive: Khaled Mashaal. Head of Hamass overseas political bureau, based in Damascus. A physics teacher born in the West Bank. Survived a bungled Mossad assassination attempt in 1997 when Israeli agents were captured in Jordan after trying to inject him with poison darts. The late King Hussein demanded the antidote and the release of Sheikh Yassin from prison in return for sending them back to Israel. He was expelled from Jordan in 1999 and moved to Syria.
Alive: Moussa Abu Marzook. Mashaals deputy. A US-educated engineer. Expelled to Jordan and then Syria. Will only be targeted by Israel if Ariel Sharon decides to launch assassinations in Syria.
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:24:19 PM PDT
by
saquin
To: saquin
New head of Hamas in Israel's sights My first inclination was to say, "Pull the trigger!" Upon further thought I say this. Pull that trigger within 24 hours of the first act of terrorism that takes place under his command.
Cause and effect is a powerful motivational force.
To: saquin
The appointment of Dr Mahmoud Zahar, 53,
was kept secret LOL So naturally everybody knows.
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posted on
04/18/2004 5:25:49 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
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