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Israeli Officers Kill Islamic Jihad Leaders
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 2-28-2007

Posted on 02/28/2007 10:28:55 AM PST by blam

Israeli officers kill Islamic Jihad leaders

Staff and agencies
Wednesday February 28, 2007
Guardian Unlimited (UK)

Palestinians inspect the car in which three Islamic Jihad militants were killed by Israeli agents, in the West Bank city of Jenin. Photograph: Saif Dahlah/AFP/Getty Images

An undercover Israeli unit shot and killed two Islamic Jihad leaders and their driver in the West Bank town of Jenin today, triggering promises of revenge from the militant organisation. Elsewhere in the West Bank, around 50,000 people in the city of Nablus were put under curfew for the second time this week.

Witnesses said the undercover officers shot at a vehicle in which the three men were sitting from a black car. The army said troops had tried to arrest Ashraf Saadi, a spokesman for Islamic Jihad, in a hospital car park, but he had opened fire on them.

When Saadi fled, continuing to fire, the troops shot him dead, the army said, adding that one Israeli had been slightly wounded by gunfire.

Army officials claimed the shot men had helped plan a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv last week, but said the attack had been thwarted.

An Islamic Jihad official in the West Bank said the other dead men were Mohammed Abu Naaseh, one of its leaders in the Jenin area, and Ala al-Breiky, who did not belong to the group but was driving the vehicle, Reuters reported.

In the Gaza Strip, Abu Ahmad, an Islamic Jihad spokesman, said the group would retaliate. "This new crime will not pass without tough punishment," he added. Hamas also vowed revenge for the shootings.

Islamic Jihad, which receives backing from Iran and Syria, has carried out dozens of suicide bombs and rocket attacks against Israel.

In Nablus, dozens of jeeps, backed by bulldozers, raided the city,

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: islamic; israeli; jihad; kill
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1 posted on 02/28/2007 10:28:58 AM PST by blam
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To: blam

Huge round of applause!!!


2 posted on 02/28/2007 10:30:35 AM PST by stm (Believe 1% of what you hear in the drive-by media and take half of that with a grain of salt)
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To: stm

See, THIS is how you respond to terror attacks, or even attempted terror attacks.


3 posted on 02/28/2007 10:32:08 AM PST by The Blitherer (What the devil is keeping the Yanks? Duncan Hunter for President '08!)
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To: blam

Threatening revenge? Oh this has gone to a new level! /sarc


4 posted on 02/28/2007 10:32:41 AM PST by cookcounty (How odd. Lee Hamilton now employed by Sandy Berger: stonebridge-international.com)
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To: blam

Bravo!

Of course, any minute now some traitorous liberal will be whining that these jihadists' rights were violated.


5 posted on 02/28/2007 10:32:53 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: blam

6 posted on 02/28/2007 10:33:54 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Don't screw with the Kitties)
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To: blam; Alouette; Salem; SJackson; All

COOL rack IDF LOL!


8 posted on 02/28/2007 10:35:51 AM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: blam
Here's one that tried to get through one of my checkpoints back in June 04 and wound up on the wrong side of a Barrett round. Bomb making materials were found in the trunk along with a lot of Al Qaeda materials. WARNING, GRAPHIC.
9 posted on 02/28/2007 10:35:59 AM PST by stm (Believe 1% of what you hear in the drive-by media and take half of that with a grain of salt)
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To: 1st-P-In-The-Pod; A_Conservative_in_Cambridge; af_vet_rr; agrace; albyjimc2; Alexander Rubin; ...
FRmail me to be added or removed from this Judaic/pro-Israel/Russian Jewry ping list.

Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.

10 posted on 02/28/2007 10:35:59 AM PST by Alouette (Learned Mother of Zion)
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To: blam

WOO! YAY!!!!


11 posted on 02/28/2007 10:36:34 AM PST by Leg Olam ("Somethings got to go, either me or that wallpaper.." last words, Oscar Wilde)
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To: blam

Good - 3 less oxygen thieves.


12 posted on 02/28/2007 10:37:13 AM PST by Ancesthntr
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To: stm

Shucks, that'll buff out.


13 posted on 02/28/2007 10:37:44 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: fatnotlazy
Their rights and their craniums. Fuggem
14 posted on 02/28/2007 10:37:44 AM PST by stm (Believe 1% of what you hear in the drive-by media and take half of that with a grain of salt)
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To: stm

Without lookin', is that the guy in the Nikes who got his wig split?


15 posted on 02/28/2007 10:38:15 AM PST by txhurl
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To: blam

This is an excellent start!

Kill them before they kill you!!!!


16 posted on 02/28/2007 10:38:24 AM PST by GaryMontana (islam, the Nazis of today must either be destroyed -- or the human race will perish)
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To: blam

This is an excellent start!

Kill them before they kill you!!!!


17 posted on 02/28/2007 10:38:28 AM PST by GaryMontana (islam, the Nazis of today must either be destroyed -- or the human race will perish)
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To: fatnotlazy
"Of course, any minute now some traitorous liberal will be whining that these jihadists' rights were violated."

....And that Islamic Jihad is humanitarian organization composed of freedom fighters.

18 posted on 02/28/2007 10:38:57 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: blam

Can I count those 3 towards my carbon offsets? I need to fill up my Mercury this afternoon.


19 posted on 02/28/2007 10:39:31 AM PST by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: stm
Perhaps you ought to have made that read: VERY GRAPHIC!!!

Holy crap!

20 posted on 02/28/2007 10:39:46 AM PST by andy58-in-nh
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