27 July 2008

That's the problem...

...with tryin' to steal home... you gotta watch out for the squeeze play...
Israeli commandos killed 25-year-old Shihab al-Natsheh, a top commander of the Islamic militant group Hamas, in the West Bank town of Hebron. There was a shootout, and when he refused to surrender, troops bulldozed the house he was hiding in.

"We are forcing the terrorists to play defense and preventing them, crippling their ability, to wage terrorist war against our civilians."

The Israeli military said there were explosions inside the house during the exchange of fire, presumably from bombs stored inside.
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