Friday, January 29, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Hamas accuses Israel of assassinating exiled chief Mahmoud al-Mabhouh - 'The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas today accused Israel of assassinating one of its military chiefs in Dubai, a man who helped to found the group’s armed wing and who was behind the kidnap and killing of two Israeli soldiers in the first intifada 21 years ago. Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a key figure in ongoing smuggling operations to bring weapons into the blockaded Gaza Strip, was killed in a hotel on January 20, Hamas officials said...'