Word: ismail
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...people have died, including an American soldier, in skirmishes between regrouping elements of the Taliban, local militias and security forces. The same day as the explosion in Baghdad, a Palestinian suicide bomber in Jerusalem killed at least 20 people on a bus. Two days later, Israel responded by killing Ismail Abu Shanab, a leader of the Islamic radical group Hamas. Together the events cast doubt on whether the road map to a two-state solution for the Israel-Palestine dispute, to which Bush is personally committed, would lead anywhere other than the same wrecking yard in which lie all other...
...stretchers, screaming toddlers with scorched faces and hysterical parents. Six of the dead were children under 16. MARTYRS! REVENGE! shouted newspaper headlines. On Thursday afternoon on a crowded Gaza City street, five Hellfire missiles launched from Apache helicopter gunships slammed into a white Volkswagen Golf, incinerating Hamas political leader Ismail Abu Shanab and his two bodyguards. Fifteen bystanders were wounded. "Martyrs! Revenge!" shouted thousands of Palestinians as they dipped their hands in Abu Shanab's blood...
When you're one of the few public faces of Hamas and your organization kills Israeli civilians, you've got to know you loom large in the enemy's gunsights. But when I asked Ismail Abu Shanab if that worried him, he merely shrugged. "If you expect me to worry about my life, that is terror," he said on a late-June day just a week after Israel had tried and failed to take out his colleague, Abdel Aziz Rantisi. "I do not pay any attention to this. It's not courage, but we have gotten used to this...
...near Ashkelon. "If we fear Israel," he said, "that will leave them in our place. That's what happened to our fathers and grandfathers. So one of the lessons for us is never to let go of our land under fear of Israel." Living by that logic has cost Ismail Abu Shanab the chance ever to go home again. By Johanna McGeary
...longer content to indulge Abbas's efforts to deal with the militant groups by negotiation and consensus, Israel has resumed direct military activity in Palestinian cities designed to eliminate their operatives. The Israelis underscored their contempt for Abbas's path of negotiating with Hamas by their choice of target - Ismail Abu-Shanab, killed by a rocket attack on his car in Gaza, was the very Hamas leader with whom Abbas had negotiated the "hudna" truce agreement. Israel?s message to Abbas was clear: Either you destroy Hamas, or we will. And Hamas and Islamic Jihad - and surely, also...