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AP: FBI Sent Hamas Money in Clinton Days JOHN SOLOMON Associated Press WASHINGTON - While President Clinton was trying to broker an elusive peace between Israelis and Palestinians, the FBI was secretly funneling money to suspected Hamas figures to see if the militant group would use it for terrorist attacks, according to interviews and court documents. The counterterrorism operation in 1998 and 1999 was run out of the FBI's Phoenix office in cooperation with Israeli intelligence and was approved by Attorney General Janet Reno, FBI officials told The Associated Press. Several thousand dollars in U.S. money was sent to suspected...

<p>August 25, 2003 -- JERUSALEM - Israeli missiles killed a Hamas commander and three other militants yesterday, hours after a top general vowed to hunt down the terror group's "hard core."</p> <p>Israeli helicopter gunships swooped down on a Gaza City suburb last night and fired a rocket at a car carrying Ahmed Shatawi, 24, the head of Hamas activities in the West Bank, officials said.</p>

The Associated Press JERUSALEM Aug. 22 — Israel plans to kill more militant leaders if the Palestinians do not begin arresting and disarming extremists, Israeli officials warned on Friday following a lethal helicopter missile strike on a Hamas chief. Palestinian leaders said Thursday's killing of Hamas leader Ismail Abu Shanab ruined what was to be an imminent campaign against militants by Palestinian security forces. The militants called off their two-month-old cease-fire and promised more suicide bombings and other attacks on Israeli targets, raising the chances that a new round of Mideast violence will sink a U.S.-backed peace plan. The plan...

(IsraelNN.com) Tens of thousands of PA Gaza residents are taking part in the funeral for senior Hamas terrorist Ismail Shanab. Shanab was killed in an IDF offensive in Gaza on Thursday.

<p>GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip &#8212; Israel assassinated a top Hamas leader in a helicopter missile attack yesterday afternoon, prompting the Islamic militant group to declare an end to its eight-week cease-fire against Israel.</p> <p>Ismail Abu Shanab, 53, was killed when missiles hit his car as it drove through downtown Gaza City yesterday afternoon. The strike also killed two of Mr. Abu Shanab's bodyguards and wounded dozens.</p>

UN chief Annan: Israel had no right to carry out `extra-judicial` killing of top Hamas leader Ismail Abu Shanab

<p>GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli militants killed a senior Hamas official and two of his bodyguards Thursday in a strike meant as retaliation for Tuesday's deadly Jerusalem bus bombing.</p> <p>The targeted attack brought the already tenuous truce between Israeli and Palestinian groups perilously close to destruction.</p>

MIDI - GOING OUT OF MY HEAD Well, Abu Shanab has just lost his head...the Israeli's just took off the guy's head Now he's screwed...so screwed He rode in a gold car..I guess helicopters did not find it very hard to spot So, Abu Shanab has just lost his head...the Israeli's just took off the guy's head Now he's screwed...so screwed He planned lots of murders...he cannot plan others from where he has found himself today Because without his head, he's no longer talking Without his head, he's not walking Without his head, he can't eat He can't dance...

The Hamas officialy declared Thursday that it was pulling out of the Hudna (cease-fire) on attacks against Israel in response to the targeted killing of top Hamas official Ismail Abu Shanab in Gaza City earlier in the day. Abu Shanab and at least two other Palestinains were killed Thursday afternoon when Israel Air Force helicopters fired five missiles at a car in a crowded Gaza City neighborhood. The other two Palestinians killed were reported to have been Shanab's bodyguards. Palestinian prime minister said that the killing of Hamas leader undermines planned crackdown on militants. Hamas representative in Lebanon, Osama Ramadan,...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel killed a senior Hamas official in a missile strike on Thursday, retaliating for a Hamas suicide bombing in Jerusalem. The Islamic militant group threatened revenge and said it is formally abandoning a truce it declared eight weeks ago. Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas warned that the killing of the Hamas official, Ismail Abu Shanab, is undermining his planned campaign against Palestinian militants. The Palestinian leadership had decided on the clampdown just hours earlier, under intense U.S. pressure. Abu Shanab was riding in his gold-colored station wagon,(way to blend in) along with two bodyguards, in...

A senior Hamas official declared a ceasefire dead on Thursday shortly after an Israeli missile strike killed Ismail Abu Shanab, a leader of the militant Islamic group, in Gaza City. "The assassination of Abu Shanab ... means that the Zionist enemy has assassinated the truce and the Hamas movement holds the Zionist enemy fully responsible for the consequences of its crime," Ismail al-Haniyah told reporters in Gaza. Palestinian militant faction chiefs declared a temporary ceasefire on June 29 under international pressure to advance a new U.S.-backed plan for peace with Israel.

A senior Hamas official and at least two other Palestinains were killed Thursday afternoon when Israel Air Force helicopters fired five missiles at a car in a crowded Gaza City neighborhood. Security sources said that Hamas leader Ismail Abu Shanab was the target of the strike. The other two Palestinians killed were reported to have been Shanab's bodyguards. Abu Shanab's gold-colored station wagon was driving in the Rimal neighborhood near the United Nations headquarters in Gaza City and had slowed down to avoid a large stone in the road when a first missile struck the front of the vehicle. The...

Aug. 21 — GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli helicopter missile strike on a car in Gaza City on Thursday killed senior Hamas militant leader Ismail Abu Shanab and two bodyguards, Palestinian witnesses and medics said. A senior Israeli security source confirmed Abu Shanab was the target of the attack. It occurred after Israel decided to resume military strikes against militants following a Hamas suicide bombing that shattered a truce underpinning a U.S.-backed peace plan.

The Palestinian Authority appears to be taking preventative actions against Hamas operative in the Gaza Strip. In Gaza City, Hamas officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, reported that 16 members were arrested today by Palestinian police, but would not reveal the identities of those taken into custody. "I do have reports that there is some kind of campaign that has targeted some members of the movement," said Hamas spokesman Ismail Abu Shanab. He said he could not confirm the exact number of those arrested. The arrests appeared to indicate that Arafat is responding to growing US pressure to take action...