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'Hamas chief of staff may be dead'
jp ^ | Dec 29, 2008 1:44 | By YAAKOV KATZ AND KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Posted on 12/28/2008 6:05:26 PM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; gazastrip; hamas; iran; islam; jaabri; jihad; workaccident
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To: Flavius

Don’t these stories usually claim the #2 guy was killed?


41 posted on 12/28/2008 6:22:27 PM PST by SlapHappyPappy
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To: MNSlim
A supposed FReeper newbie joins the fray.

ML/NJ

42 posted on 12/28/2008 6:22:34 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: Junior_G

43 posted on 12/28/2008 6:23:03 PM PST by Lady GOP
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To: rdl6989; Junior_G

I read that his mortar was somehow “seen/targeted” by Israeli forces, and that was an *incoming round* on him, rather than his weapon exploding. At least that’s what I remember from someone’s post on another forum, www.glocktalk.com, I think.


44 posted on 12/28/2008 6:24:26 PM PST by GusBreacher
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To: Flavius
...may have been killed in an air strike on a mosque which he frequented.

Well, THAT's pretty cool!

45 posted on 12/28/2008 6:25:13 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: MNSlim

It is not a solution but Hamas is initiated the conflict. Hamas wants nothing more than to exterminate the Jews. We’ve been down that road before Slim and aint ever going there again.


46 posted on 12/28/2008 6:26:08 PM PST by Lady GOP
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To: MNSlim
Seriously. Is that your “solution”?

It sounds like the "final solution".

47 posted on 12/28/2008 6:26:45 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Junior_G

Yup.


48 posted on 12/28/2008 6:29:36 PM PST by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Requiescat In Pace)
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To: Mr. Mojo

“...mosque which he frequented because that is the place he stored his weapons and ammo..”.

There. Corrected the mosque sentence.


49 posted on 12/28/2008 6:30:26 PM PST by rod1
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To: Lancey Howard

I dont know about you but Im getting pretty sick of this constant outpouring of sympathy for Hamas when they are a bunch of terrorist whack-job sickos. Hamas initiated the conflict.


50 posted on 12/28/2008 6:30:28 PM PST by Lady GOP
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To: television is just wrong

Our view will change because the media will change it for us. Per Obama.


51 posted on 12/28/2008 6:31:06 PM PST by bergmeid (Best entertainment I've had in a while.)
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To: RichInOC


WIN!
52 posted on 12/28/2008 6:31:31 PM PST by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Requiescat In Pace)
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To: grey_whiskers

You actually root against Chicago sports teams because of Obama?


53 posted on 12/28/2008 6:32:13 PM PST by Borges
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To: Flavius

Darn. And I was just going to invite him over for coffee and a sweet roll.


54 posted on 12/28/2008 6:32:29 PM PST by dbacks (God help the USA.)
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To: MNSlim

I’d just stick em on buses and dump em over on the Egyptian side. Ditto their breathren in the West Bank to Jordan. The concept of “Palestinian” is a complete fabrication. They are Arabs, and the Arabs have stolen enough of the Middle East....


55 posted on 12/28/2008 6:33:45 PM PST by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Requiescat In Pace)
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To: Lady GOP

My suggestion was to daisy cut the entire place. In the past I have recommended that Israel announce a policy of exterminating one Hamas-associated “settlement” for every one Israeli killed by Hamas. This policy would effectively force Hamas to decide whether or not to commit genocide against itself.

Whatever.
I just want Israel to get rid of the cockroaches once and for all.


56 posted on 12/28/2008 6:37:47 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: buccaneer81
...while we got the help we needed with Philly smoking the Cowboys.

Thge two walleye filets I baked for dinner tonight had more fight in them than the Cowboys had on the field today.

57 posted on 12/28/2008 6:38:29 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: Lancey Howard

I’m all in favor of a “final solution” for Hamas & Co. and every other Islamoterrorist in both Gaza and the Bank. ...and everywhere else, for that matter. If that means a few hundred thousand or few million dead Islamists, so be it. If it means 100 million+ dead, oh well.


58 posted on 12/28/2008 6:39:19 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Kozak
Well, yeah, but for him...

:-D )))

59 posted on 12/28/2008 6:40:59 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Lancey Howard
International Herald Tribune Article
60 posted on 12/28/2008 6:42:36 PM PST by Lady GOP
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