Posted on 12/29/2005 8:21:41 AM PST by jmc1969
WASHINGTON Al Qaeda operatives are establishing a base in Gaza for launching attacks against Israel and neighboring pro-American Arab regimes, current and former Israeli security officials say.
Officials in Jerusalem and Washington are following this development with concern, Israeli and American sources said. They see the move as part of Al Qaeda's long-term plan to attack U.S. interests in the region. Using Gaza as a base of operations, Al Qaeda would be able to launch attacks against Israel, as well as against Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Israeli and American terrorism experts say.
Israel has become a more attractive target for Al Qaeda with the growing influence of the organization's leader in Iraq, Abu-Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, who places a higher priority than Al Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden did on attacking Israeli and Jewish targets, as the Forward first reported last year.
"Zarqawi has been saying for some time that after the battle in Iraq is won, the next phase will be the liberation of the Al Aqsa," the mosque in Jerusalem that is Islam's third holiest site, said Yoram Kahati, a former Israeli intelligence officer.
"The battle for Palestine, as Zarqawi sees it, is the ultimate one," said Kahati, now a research fellow at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism of the Israel Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.
(Excerpt) Read more at forward.com ...
Funny how viewpoints can differ on the meaning of events -
I see the move as saying that things are getting a little too hot for them in Iraq and that Gaza is still cool.
I LOVE the thought of them being next door to Israel. That oughta spice up their little terrorist lives for a while ( a very SHORT while)
(Insert evil grin here)
Thanks to the NYT we won't be able to monitor their movement! ! ! !
When Israel gave up Gaza, I remember a lot of people complaining that Israel was just giving up more land for an unenforceable peace. In reality, Israel just inherited a barrel ( as in shooting fish in a barrel ). round'em up, and waste 'em, baby!!!!!!!!!
Re#4 Yep.
> Al Qaeda operatives are establishing a base in Gaza
> for launching attacks against Israel and neighboring
> pro-American Arab regimes, ...
Thus fully recruiting the "Palestinians" into the enemy
side of the WoT, and stripping them of their special
"kid gloves" status with the US.
> ... current and former Israeli security officials say.
Or at least that's what Israel would like to see happen.
I hope you're right...
They'll soon be shooting themselves in Gaza. Let them kill each other.
I agree.
Israel won't take well to having Al-Qaeda terrorists operating in Gaza.
Many of these terrorists will find themselves on the wrong end of an Israeli missile strike - just like their counterparts in Hamas and Islamic Jihad have in the past.
And that's fine with me.
However I do hope you are right.
What I do hope is that Israel will pursue these lunatics with utmost zeal, and I doubt Israel will disappoint. Israel cannot afford to fail to stamp these guys out early because the rhetoric being spewed by the Queda kooks is quite interesting .....taking back the Al Aqsa seems like the type of thing that would lead to terrorism on a whole new level. I pray that Israel routs all of those kooks.
Those who are mud-slimes = al qaeda = OBL = garbage. Their silence tells me the equation above is true.
Kill one leader and wait for the funeral. Then, anihilate them.
Oh, goody! When will the bombing commence?
Now there's a shocker.
They said they were going to do it, and voila! It's happening. They'll do something nasty and Israel will blow them to kingdom come.
Isreal not only will intercept their messages, they will send a return message via a missle fired from an Israelie heliocopter. Terrorist dead.
I also believe that once the Palestinians get their state that everyone on planet seems so hot fired about, the first time they fire missles across the border into Israel. That is an act of war and Israel can launch an attack. Because once they are a state, such attacks become acts of war.
Target rich environment? (the A-Q base, that is)
What will Condimint and Koffeeklatch do now that the Palis are on the side of the terrorists?
Well, the NYT doesn't influence the Israelis do they??? I think American synagogues should make it mandatory that American jews have to serve in the Israeli Armed Forces when they turn 18,or they're ex-communicated or something...why are American jews so liberal,spoiled,in denial???Is it because there are so many of them in Hollyworld,MSM, and major publishers?My common sense tells me "yes".
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