GAZA (Reuters) – Israel killed the top bombmaker for Islamic Jihad and another top gunman in an air raid in Gaza City on Sunday, hours after an Israeli and three other militants died separately in a fresh surge of Middle East violence.
Witnesses said Israeli aircraft fired two missiles that blew up two vehicles, killing Adnan Bustan, 28, the head of Islamic Jihad?s unit that produces rockets and explosives, and Jihad al-Sawafiri, 31, who led a rocket firing squad.
Islamic Jihad had claimed responsibility for one of the worst recent rocket strikes from Gaza on Israel, in which three Israelis were wounded, including a baby, on Friday.
The group quickly vowed to avenge the Israeli strike. “We will burn the ground and respond everywhere,” said Abu Dujana, a spokesman for Islamic Jihad.
Hundreds of angry supporters gathered outside a morgue where the bodies were taken and chanted: “Death to Israel, Death to America”, as gunmen fired rifles into the air.
An Israeli army spokesman said “the air force attacked two vehicles in the northern Gaza Strip carrying Islamic Jihad terrorists who were responsible for projectile rocket attacks against Israel”.
Hours before the raid, a Palestinian stabbed to death an Israeli woman and wounded five other passengers on a minibus in central Israel, an attack that came after an Israeli helicopter gunship killed three militants in Gaza.
What bad ass guys these Palestinians are.? Stabbing a women to death, cowards…one and all.? Gotta hand it to Israel tho, they know how to get a point across.? Hopefully we have some of our intelligence folks training with Israeli intelligence, these guys get the scoop on all the local terrorists.
This news coming on the heels of Hamas recent announcement that they will not recognize Israel’s right to exist:
PALESTINIAN recognition of Israel was a mistake that needs correction, a senior Hamas leader said, as the group faces pressure from Europe and the US to recognise the Jewish state.
The militant Islamist group will not consider recognising Israel while the status of the country’s borders remains unclear and millions of Palestinian refugees are not unable to return to their homes, the group’s deputy political leader said.
“We believe that there was a mistake that happened in the past and this (recognition of Israel) in particular must be corrected,” Moussa Abu Marzouk told reporters in Cairo without giving further details.
[…]Israeli officials have said Hamas has to unequivocally recognise Israel’s right to exist and abandon terrorism.
The UN security council has made the same demand.
The US and EU have said a Hamas-led Palestinian Authority would risk losing crucial foreign aid unless the group disarmed and recognised Israel.
So basically they want a “do-over”.? Nevermind the treaty’s signed in the past, nevermind all the agreements from the Palestinians in the past, Hamas is in the house and they want it all done over.? Fughedaboutit.

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It almost sounds as if he is thinking the whole FISA statute is unconstitutional to me. Interesting, very interesting.
I know this is WAY off topic but…
What the?????
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/2/5/142841.shtml?s=ic
Specter to call Jimmy Carter in NSA probe? Hmmmm…what kind of game is Specter playing now? :ponder_tb:
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Carol