Posted on 12/13/2004 10:56:34 AM PST by IAF ThunderPilot
Syria on Monday accused Israel of being behind a car bomb that targeted a Palestinian member of Hamas in the Mazzah neighborhood of the Syrian capital.
A passer-by was wounded in the explosion, but the Hamas member and his wife, who left the car minutes before the blast, were unhurt.
Speaking to Syrian state-run television, Interior Minister Ghazi Kenaan said a bomb placed under the seat of the vehicle exploded minutes after the Palestinian man and his wife stepped out for a dentist's appointment.
An Interior Ministry official said that the explosion was aimed at Palestinians living in Syria.
"The vehicle is owned by a Palestinian. This points to a subversive action against Palestinian brothers in Syria," the unnamed official told the state-run news agency SANA.
"This is the second incident in which an explosion targets a Hamas member," a Palestinian source said. He said the bomb, placed under the driver's seat, blew up shortly after the unnamed Hamas member and his daughter had parked the car and left it.
One passerby was slightly injured and treated in hospital. The blast occurred near a hospital and a petrol station, which was not damaged.
The silver sports utility vehicle was quickly removed by Syrian security and rescue teams who were collecting shrapnel scattered on the street in the Mazzah area, they said.
Residents said the car had Syrian licence plates.
"The explosion was so strong that the door blew open in my house and windows were shattered in the whole building," resident Issam Abdul Wahid told Reuters.
"There was nobody in the car. I was extinguishing it and there was nobody in it," he added.
Three months ago, senior Hamas official Iz a-Din al Sheikh Khalil was killed when a bomb exploded in his car in the Syrian capital.
There was no official confirmation of Israeli involvement in the assassination of Khalil, but unnamed Israeli security sources at the time said that the operation was carried out by Israel.
"Some people lead dangerous lives," an Israeli official said in response to Khalil's killing.
Cowboy!
waisted a perfectly good car.
Nope, it wasn't the Mossad, they wouldn't have missed....
"Hamas, whose top political leaders have their headquarters in Damascus, has carried out numerous suicide bombings and killed hundreds of Israelis. In addition to Hamas, other militant and radical Palestinian guerrilla groups have set up headquarters in Damascus."
Syria- The axis of evil. Need to say more?
Pity whomever did this missed. I, for one, have no objection to getting Hamas leaders in Damascus. I agree with those who say we Israelis would likely do a better job of it, but even our best people aren't perfect.
Maybe he was delivering the car to the guy who was supposed to drive it into a school bus, and the bomb went off early, but not early enough.
Hamas, whose top political leaders have their headquarters in Damascus, has carried out numerous suicide bombings and killed hundreds of Israelis. In addition to Hamas, other militant and radical Palestinian guerrilla groups have set up headquarters in Damascus. Syria is also home to 450,000 Palestinian refugees.
What an appropriate place for all terrorist organizations to be headquartered.
Being as Damascus will be completely destroyed some time in the future, what better place for all these terrorists to be?
If it were a Mossad operation, it would have involved a lot less firepower and no bystanders would have died.
Yeah, your probably right...musta been a vendetta or power struggle hit...Still they(whomever they were)missed him!
If it had been the Israelis, it would either have been a straightforward Airstrike, followed by a press release saying "Yes, we tried to kill that guy."
Or the Mossad would have poisioned or "disappeared" him.
http://www.debka.com/
Syrian interior minister Kenaan accuses Israeli Mossad of rigging car that blew up in Syrian capital’s al Maza embassy district Monday and injured 3. DEBKAfile adds Hamas operative Abu Sawalha was targeted. Bomb under driver’s seat detonated when ignition switched on after he visited doctor with his wife. On Sep. 26, another Hamas leader Ezzadin Sheikh Halil was killed in Damascus.
That's the damn truth. A friend of mine in the special operations community told me once, "If only the target is dead, and there's no collateral damage, it's the Americans. If everyone is dead, and there's no collateral damage, it's the Brits. If everyone is dead, and there's huge collateral damage, it's the Russians. If no one knows that anything even happened, it's the Israelis."
Please. Mossad has been screwing up a lot lately. Failed poisonings, etc.
Exactly!
More likely is either an internal struggle within Hamas, or something designed to whip the palis into a frenzy, since it seems that lately there have been fewer successful terrorist attacks on Israel.
Besides, a car bomb is more the speed of the pali terrorists themselve. Usually, when a terrorist vehicle blows up, it's because of a guided missile. Less of a chance for "collateral damage," simething that never deters the pali terrorists. On the other hand, IIRC, when the Israelis use a bomb, it's usually in a telephone handset, so it only takes out the bad guy.
Mark
You gotta love news orgs that put exclamation points in their headlines..... oh wait.
Hamas member and his daughter
Well was she his wife or his daughter? Or both?
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unlikely that they would detonate with no one in the car. sounds very fishy. they have better tecnology than that.
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