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.
Are we talking about two different women or are they the same woman?
Hamas ? What Hamas ? There are no palestinian brothers in Syria.
I think Syria is looking for an excuse to attack Israel in a more substantial way.
Unfortunately for Syria, they haven't read Isaiah 17:1 - "The burden of Damascus. It has been taken away from being a city, it has become a ruinious heap." Damascus has been standing for over 2000 years.
More like 5500. However, it is nearly out of time.
Payback is a bitch.....
Maybe, just maybe, the Syrian serfs are getting fed up with Ba'athist tyranny, terrorists in their midsts, and the generally rotten lot they've been handed by the Assad clan. I doubt it very seriously (Arabs seem to have a long-term love affair with terror and despotism), but it's a possiblity.
If at first you don't succeed...
NUTS
They miss him by that muchhhh
That is a facinating book...
Where did you get 5500?
I am sure it is just "Palestinians" voting each other out of office. It's Election time in Arab occupied Israel.
Some Archaologist in my school days. In any case, it is much older than 2000 years.
c'mon, you dont really think theyd miss, do you??
"Some Archaologist in my school days"
Hmmmm? That's great documentation.
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