Word: qassam
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...Israelis have run into a wall in trying to find the militants who commit Hamas outrages. Since the bus bombing, security forces have rounded up about 100 West Bank Palestinians suspected of serving as accomplices to the Izzeddin al-Qassam brigades, the violent arm of Hamas. "We are shaking the tree to see what will fall," says a security official...
Security officials are hoping that interrogations of the latest batch of Hamas suspects will lead them to the al-Qassam militants. The Israelis have a list of 27 fugitives in the West Bank and believe there are others as yet unidentified. At the top of the wanted list is Yehia Ayyash, 29, an electrical engineer from the West Bank village of Rafat, who is known within Hamas as "the engineer." According to Israeli and Hamas sources, he is the movement's master bombmaker, who probably built the TNT device used in Tel Aviv...
...security forces catch up with those on the wanted list, new rules of engagement will apply. Now, say officials, forces in pursuit of a known member of al-Qassam may open fire immediately, without ascertaining whether the suspect is armed, unless he surrenders at once...
EVER since World War II, United States foreign policy has wavered between favoring the Arab states in the Middle East and favoring Israel. Virtually all presidents have tried to emphasize American ties with Arab leaders at the beginning of their presidency. Eisenhower tried to cultivate Iraq's Qassam. Kennedy and Johnson tried to cultivate Egypt's Nasser. So did Nixon. Carter wooed the Shah of Iran and Reagan the Saudis...
...explosion aboard Flight 840, an anonymous caller telephoned a Western news agency in Beirut and said that the bomb had been planted by a little-known group called the Izzeddin Qassam unit of the Arab Revolutionary Cells, which in turn is linked to Palestinian renegade Abu Nidal, probably the world's most wanted terrorist. The caller said the bombing was in retaliation for U.S. missile attacks on Libyan targets last month during the showdown over the right of foreign ships to use the waters of the Gulf of Sidra. A four-page handwritten statement repeating this claim and promising further...