AP: Zarqawi's "Al-Qaeda in Iraq" Claims Rocket Strike on Northern Israeli City from Lebanon via Daily Alert:
Al-Qaeda in Iraq said Thursday that it fired a barrage of rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel this week, in a rare claim by the group of a direct attack against the Jewish state. The statement, on an Islamic Web forum where al-Qaeda in Iraq often posts statements, could not be independently verified.Without referring to the claim, Maj. Gen. Aharon Zeevi-Farkash, the head of Israeli army intelligence, said Thursday in an interview with Israel's Channel 10 TV,
"Today al-Qaeda is turning its focus to the heart of the Levant - Syria, Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, the countries around us, and to Israel."The group's branch in Iraq, led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been battling U.S. and Iraqi forces for two years and leading a bloody campaign of suicide bombings and kidnappings in that country. But al-Qaeda in Iraq has been expanding attacks to other parts of the Arab world. It claimed to have carried out a Nov. 9 triple suicide bombing against hotels in the Jordanian capital, Amman, that killed 60 people. (AP/USA Today)
AQ's claim leaves confusion at the New York Times.
If you follow that link to the Times, you will note that Michael Slackman writes,
"While no one was seriously injured, Israel retaliated by firing missiles at a camp for a militant Palestinian group... operating just outside of Beirut"-- as if Israel somehow over-reacted.
He doesn't mention, and may not even know, that one of the terrorists' katyusha rockets landed in the den of a Israeli civilian home. According to Arutz Sheva, "the parents were in the bedroom and went into shock. Their child was unharmed."
I can guarantee you that Mr. Slackman, unless he's off his rocker, would not want to tolerate a katyusha rocket coming into his den, with his children in the house, even if "no one was seriously injured." In leftist language, this would be a violation of one's personal space.
I hope the Israeli missiles hit their target... and Mr. Slackman should hope so too.
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