Israel Identifies New Secret Hamas Leader

[CShine]

JERUSALEM - Israel identified the new, secret Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) as Mahmoud Zahar, a 53-year-old Egyptian-trained physician, and signaled Monday he won't be targeted if the militant group halts attacks on Israelis. Hamas, however, refused to reveal the name of its leader for fear he will be assassinated like his two predecessors.

Also Monday, Israeli troops killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy and seriously wounded a 15-year-old girl near Israeli settlements in Gaza. The girl, described as mentally retarded, had wandered into a restricted area.

The Palestinian attorney general said he would speed up prosecution of dozens of suspected collaborators with Israel and search for those who helped Israel kill Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi on April 17. Fifty-three alleged informers are in Palestinian custody awaiting trial.

Rantisi, the successor of Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, himself assassinated by Israel, had taken extreme precautions, but Israel spotted him when he made a rare visit home and killed him in with a missile attack.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=6&u=/ap/20040426/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians

[Roon]

1. Later Mahmoud Zahar

You're toast.

[daleo]

2. The 14 year old was killed for climbing on a sand dune

So says the story.

[fryguy]

3. get ready to post the job opening again

they're going to need a new leader again soon....

[Muddleoftheroad]

4. They should use Monster.com to fill the job

That would be appropriate after all.

[markses]

5. Hamas refused to reveal the name because they knew they had a mole

And they were engineering a way to discover that mole.

What are we, five?

[Freddie Stubbs]

10. Either way Mr. Zahar is going to have a hard time getting life insurance

[AlCzervik]

6. somewhere right now in Gaza

there is a precision guided rocket with his name on it whizzing through the air.

[Scurrilous]

8. If there is....

...let's hope this rocket is a bit more 'precise' than the last one the IDF fired at him.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3522897&thesection=news&thesubsection=world

Hamas leader survives Israeli missile strike

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"An Israeli missile strike has wounded a leader of the militant Islamic movement Hamas and killed his adult son and a bodyguard in the Gaza Strip, medics say.

The Hamas official, Mahmoud al-Zahar, had been standing in the doorway of his two-storey house in Gaza City when it was attacked. He was thrown out by the blast and slightly wounded in the back of his head and his back, Hamas members said.

Zahar's wife was among about 20 people wounded, the medics said. They said she was seriously hurt."

[Muddleoftheroad]

9. I hope so too

But in the meantime, anyone who hangs around this guy is an idiot. And that includes his family which he chooses to put at risk.

[kalian]

7. Hmmm...I wonder if its their mole....?

:eyes:
You know, now that Mossad has "admitted" to having "infiltrated"
Hamas....

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