Got a Big Hamas Fish

Middle East | Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 9:37:44 am PST

A senior Hamas freakazoid cleric considered the successor of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin won’t be sending any more of his children into Israel as suicidal mass murderers.

Sheikh Nizar Rayyan, 52, a senior Hamas leader and cleric, was killed along with several others on Thursday when an IAF aircraft dropped a bomb on the eight-story Jabalya apartment building he lived in, the IDF said.

Palestinian medics said that nine people were killed, including two of Rayyan’s four wives and four of his 12 children, and around 30 were wounded in the air strike. ...

Security officials said that Rayyan was not only the religious leader of Hamas’s military wing, Izzadin Kassam, but also one of their military commanders. He was often seen in uniform, and participated in military exercises. He was considered one of the most fanatical Hamas commanders, and was said to be close to Hamas terrorist Salah Shehadeh, who was killed by the IAF in 2002.

In October 2001, he sent his son to perpetrate a suicide attack in the Gush Katif settlement Elei Sinai, in which two young Israelis were killed.