'Hamas chief of staff may be dead'

jp ^ | Dec 29, 2008 1:44 | By YAAKOV KATZ AND KHALED ABU TOAMEH

[Flavius]

Conflicting reports emerged Sunday regarding the fate of top Hamas military commander Ahmed Ja'abri, who may have been killed in one of the hundreds of Israeli air strikes against Hamas infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.

Since Operation Cast Lead began on Saturday, the air force has flown over 300 sorties over the Strip, bombing close to 280 different targets. Palestinian and Israeli sources said that Ja'abri, the overall commander of Hamas's armed wing, Izaddin Kassam, may have been killed in an air strike on a mosque which he frequented.

Sources close to Hamas in the Gaza Strip said they could neither confirm nor deny the report. They said that the bodies of many of the victims had yet to be identified and that several bodies were still under the rubbles of demolished buildings.

[buccaneer81]

Great news on a day of gridiron misery.

[Cindy]

ARTICLE SNIPPET from the link in post no. 1:

"Sources close to Hamas in the Gaza Strip said they could neither confirm nor deny the report"

[umgud]

The price of firing Kassam rockets has gone up. Israel needs to make it too costly to fire even one rocket in the future. Islam or not, even the stupidest people on earth understand brute power.

[jessduntno]

“Lets go ahead in and do a #6 on them all...we can then mourn after the #6 Party later on..” - Taggert

[patton]

LOL - somebody rigged his ammo.

[grey_whiskers]

Feh. The Vikings won, making sure that they (and not Chicago of Obamessiah fame) advanced to the playoffs.

Where's the misery?

[buccaneer81]

a neighbor of mine sold her house and moved to the Gaza strip cause God told her to.

She listened to "allah?"

Bad move for one's body and soul.

[cameraeye]

For all the innocents this animal has killed, I hope his dinner in h@ll is cold!

[MNSlim]

You two advocate carpet bombing and killing 1.3 million Palestinian civilians in Gaza?

Seriously. Is that your “solution”?

[RichInOC]

FAIL

[buccaneer81]

Where's the misery?

My screen name sums it up. A loss to the lame Raiders, while we got the help we needed with Philly smoking the Cowboys.

Time to trade Chucky.

[television is just wrong]

she is christian and claims God wants her to save souls. she can’t save any if she can’t save her own life.

[MNSlim]

You two advocate carpet bombing and killing 1.3 million Palestinian civilians in Gaza?

Seriously. Is that your “solution”?

[Junior_G]

Oh, the outrage!!!

[buccaneer81]

she is christian and claims God wants her to save souls.

Sorry. Like a fool I assumed. May she stay safe.

[Palladin]

Hope she will survive this war. It’s not a great place for any self-styled missionary.

[Mr. Mojo]

Izaddin Kassam, may have been killed in an air strike on a mosque which he frequented.

Thinking that "mosque" was a safe haven, no doubt. Thankfully Israel didn't follow the PC playbook.

[ExTexasRedhead]

May all the human waste in Gaza assume room temperature.

[Don Carlos]

FTA .. ... at least 50 percent of Hamas's underground rocket launchers had been bombed ... as well as a significant number of weapons warehouses ... almost all of the Hamas bases and headquarters in the Gaza Strip were completely destroyed

Yo, Hamas! Think it's bad now? Wait till February when Bibi takes over!

All the money the UN has couldn't buy these dip-sticks a clue!

[buccaneer81]

Seriously. Is that your “solution”?

Yeah. That's really stupid.

A dozen or so Israeli tactical nukes ought to do it.