Guerrillas in the Post's Mist

The Post reports that IDF soldiers killed "senior guerrilla leaders."

So they are guerrilla leaders now...does that make Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah guerrilla organizations?

From Arutz Sheva we learn that

"IDF sources report that eight wanted terrorists in the Shechem area were killed by Israeli forces on Saturday, the third day of a counter-terrorism operation in Shechem. Among the terrorist leaders eliminated were Naif Abu Sharah, the commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade of Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization, Faddy Bahti, a commander of the Islamic Jihad, and Jaffer Mitsri, a leader in the Hamas.

Among many other attacks, Abu Sharah behind a suicide bombing in Tel-Aviv, in January 2003, in which 23 civilians were murdered and dozens were injured, and a suicide bombing in November 2002, in which two Israeli civilians were murdered and 30 were injured. His many attempts to dispatch suicide bombers were sometimes funded by the Hizbullah, sometimes by the Palestinian Authority. Islamic Jihad commander Bahti and Hamas leader Mitsri were each responsible for dispatching terrorists and for their organization's respective explosives laboratories in Shechem."

The Debkafile reports that the IDF also found a "Large stock of explosives and bomb belts discovered in the wanted men’s hideout."

So you decide - are they guerrilla leaders or mass murdering terrorists?

A more insightful report would also address why the terror leaders of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah are all hiding together...but hey...that would also be asking too much of John Worthless Anderson.

Read the rest of the Post's version.


Israeli Raid Kills Six Palestinian Leaders
Attack is One of Deadliest on Guerrillas
By John Ward Anderson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, June 27, 2004; Page A23
JERUSALEM, June 26 -- Israeli troops discovered an underground room being used by Palestinian militants as a hideout in the West Bank city of Nablus on Saturday and pounded it with grenades and gunfire, killing six senior leaders from three Palestinian groups, Israeli army officials and Palestinian security sources said.


It was one of the deadliest attacks on a group of senior guerrilla leaders since the Palestinian uprising began in September 2000. The dead included the West Bank leader of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Nayef Abu Sharekh, who was in his forties, and the leader of the Islamic Jihad in the northern West Bank, Fadi Bahty, 26, according to Palestinian security and hospital officials."