Posted on 08/16/2006 5:42:46 PM PDT by HAL9000
Mosad fails to kill Hamas chief in Syria: sources
GAZA, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- The external Israeli security intelligence service, better know as Mosad, has failed to assassinate Damascus-based Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal, sources in the movement revealed Wednesday.
The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, were quoted bya Palestinian independent news agency as saying that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) knew about the Israeli attempt to kill Meshaal through a Western intelligence security service.
They added that several Mosad agents arrived in Damascus in mid-July during the Israeli military offensives on Lebanon, disguising as foreign relief volunteers in a bid to assassinate Meshaal.
The sources, however, didn't say if the Mosad agents were discovered or arrested by the Syrians or if they are still in Syria or they had left.
Meshaal escaped an assassination in Jordan in 1997, but survived after Israel asked Jordan to exchange two Mosad agents detained in Amman for curing Meshaal and releasing late Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
After Hamas was responsible for kidnapping an Israeli soldier in Gaza on June 25, Israel accused Meshaal for being behind the attack and threatened to kill him and other Hamas politburo members.
During the Israeli war on Hezbollah, Israeli jets bombarded the houses of Mohamed Nazzal and Osama Hamdan in southern Lebanon, senior Hamas leaders based in Lebanon, said the sources.
The two Hamas leaders were not at home when their houses were destroyed by Israeli jets, said the sources, adding that every Hamas leader abroad is carefully moving both in Lebanon and Syria. Enditem
If at first you don't succeed...try, try again.
Palestinian news agency........lolololol
Darn!
The two Hamas leaders were not at home when their houses were destroyed by Israeli jets
the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) knew about the Israeli attempt to kill Meshaal through a Western intelligence security service.
If there's any truth to that claim then it has to be the French.
Or Newsweek?
No "enemy within", eh?
People better damn well better wake up and expunge the spies and double agents inside these "Western intelligence security services"......
Or was it "Leaky Lahey" again?
Maybe so. Or perhaps Venezuela?
OK everyone. You get three guesses and two dont count!! And, remember - The New York Slimes is not considered a Western intelligence security service.
My immediate thought as well, but it could just as easily have been a Plame type in the CIA.
The French?
To hell with Hamas.Israeli snipers should reach out and touch that five foot tall psychopath in Tehran and his stooge in Syria's Presidential Palace.
..or the Russians, who are too stupid to realize that the Hezbollah problem is only part of a larger Islamic problem that includes the Chechens and involves the complete destruction of Western civiliazation, INCLUDING Russia.
Who knows if there was ever an attempt? Its easy to make up a story and claim they were successful at protecting someone . Also easy to say Western intelligence agency tipped then off. If an attempt was amde where are the bodies of the attempters? How did they escape? How could they escape with hamas knowing they were there?
Ya know what this whole story sounds like Bovine Excrement to me.
It was Abbas himself.
"Please Mr. Mossad guys, go kill this guy so i can be the leader again please please. Yasser never let me be anything, and then finally when i got there, they took it away from me!!"
Yeah I'm not so sure about this. The only thing I can say for sure is there is no one on this planet I would be more scared of then Mossad if I heard they were after me.
Read "Gideon's Spies" and you'll know what I mean.
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