Posted on 11/17/2010 9:39:52 AM PST by mojito
The IDF spokesperson's unit on Wednesday confirmed that during a joint operation with general security forces an Army of Islam official, Aslam Yassin, was killed during a targeted assassination.
Yassin was a resident of Jablia in the northern Gaza Strip and was a senior member of the radical Palestinian terror group affiliated with al-Qaida and involved in the 2006 abduction of Gilad Schalit.
In recent days Yassin personally worked on carrying out a terrorist attack involving kidnapping Israelis of Sinai, the IDF statement read.
Earlier on Wednesday Palestinians reported that a car explosion had killed one person and wounded four others in the Gaza Strip.
But radio stations affiliated with both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad militant groups claimed there was an Israeli air strike.
At the beginning of Novemeber Israel resumed its targeted assassinations in the Gaza Strip with the killing of a senior al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist by a car bomb in Gaza City.
The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) confirmed that together with the Israel Air Force, it had carried out an operation to kill 27-year-old Mohammed Namnam, a top operative with the Army of Islam, a radical Palestinian terror group affiliated with al-Qaida and involved in the 2006 abduction of Gilad Schalit.
There’s always some good news out there,thanks for posting this.
I'm a big fan of TAs.
Oh look...security guarantees: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AG3WJ20101117
Why, that would never happen.....at least that’s what I’m told here on FR.
I saw some of this yesterday. Seems like the PM doesn’t quite trust some of the things Hildabeast and the WH are saying and he’d like them in writing.
Can you blame him?
Wonder if this Yassin character was related to the wheelchair-bound old man of the same name who was a Hamas leader. A few years back the Israelis blew him out of his wheelchair with a missile and sent his head rolling down the street...needless to say the Muzzies were outraged.
The point: Israel has no business looking to Obama for “security guarantees.” Sigh....
Hey Israel: Mazel Tov!
Well, I suppose technically it’s still a car bomb. Only the method of delivery and attachment is from above. Still effective, it seems.
Yah... they definitely earned some extra style points for that.
Israel already has “security guarantees” from the US in regards to negotiations with the PA. They were spelled out in 2004, and remain official US policy, the current occupant in the WH not withstanding.
The PM just wants the offer of fighter jets and other goodies that Sec. Clinton offered verbally in exchange for Israeli cabinet approval of a 90-day freeze on West Bank construction to be put in writing. It's not really a “security guarantee,” it's more of bribe.
Sounds like the WH is balking on its “commitments,” which, as you convey, hints at best as lack of sincerity.
Really, your fellow FReepers are not quite so dull as you suppose.
I never called you “dull.” I’m simply pointing to a repeating cycle that never ends well for Israel. But, I understand why they do it. By next year, it will be sewn up....and everyone will proclaim “peace, peace” - all based on deception. And, by the time they wake up to it - it will be too late.
Army of Islam official, Aslam Yassin, was killed during a targeted assassination... a senior member of the radical Palestinian terror group affiliated with al-Qaida and involved in the 2006 abduction of Gilad Schalit. In recent days Yassin personally worked on carrying out a terrorist attack involving kidnapping Israelis of Sinai... Palestinians reported that a car explosion had killed one person and wounded four others... radio stations affiliated with both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad militant groups claimed there was an Israeli air strike... The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) confirmed that together with the Israel Air Force, it had carried out an operation to kill 27-year-old Mohammed Namnam, a top operative with the Army of Islam, a radical Palestinian terror group affiliated with al-Qaida and involved in the 2006 abduction of Gilad Schalit.
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