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Sniper Killer of 11 Israeli Soldiers : Thaer Hamad's Father Video Interviewed
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Tuesday February 23, 2010 05:33 by TD - Free Palestine Campaign
"Fondly and proudly known as 'The Sniper," On 3rd March 2002, 22-year-old Palestinian blocklayer and tiler Thaer Hamad from the Ramallah-area village of Silwad, armed with an old WW2 M1 rifle shot 24 Israeli Occupation Forces and their reinforcements at a checkpoint sited in an old British police post on the road between Nablus and Ramallah killing 11 of them in the space of 24 minutes before his weapon blew up on the 25th shot. A Google search reveals a curious and bizarre lack of information on this extraordinary sharpshooter and the terrible damage he inflicted on the Israeli Occupation Forces in this singular action and when some is unearthed, it jars with the information provided by Thaer Hamad's family and Palestinians in Silwad and Bil'in familiar with the case such as the number of shots fired, who they hit and the number of casualties: Incredibly, the marksman’s 25 single shots, fired over 25 minutes, killed seven Israeli reservists and three settlers. Four others also suffered direct hits, but they survived (Paul McGeough : Kill Khalid, see Related Link)
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5The absolute stunning hypocricy of some on the "left" in the Free State (yes, I know) knows no bounds.
Take away Palestinian and insert say One Shot from South Armagh and the reactions would have been immediate.
Those bad evil IRA bastards
Sad but true.
Like the song about the Hunger Strikers 90 Miles From Dubin said
I'm 90 miles from Dublin town..
but
They care more about my plight, in the USA
In his book (Kill Khalid) on the attempted Mossad assassination of Hamas leader; Khalid Mish'al, Paul McGeough mentions that: He (Thaer Hamed) shot so precisely and got away so cleanly that settlers and investigators alike wondered if the killer was from the Irish Republican Army or perhaps had been trained as a marksman by the IRA.
Hamas really learns from the provos
today s news - Hamas man was a spy for Israel
in Irish Times today -maybe the man in Dubai was too
and killed by Fatah or Syria or Saudis ?
"This young man should be our top priority, since he entered the history of the Intifada as having carried out the most successful military action, alone...
Thaer Hamed deserves freedom because he is the hero of the Intifada, and he is the only Palestinian resistance fighter who belongs to his people and to his land, spurning the factions, for had he been factional, he would not have succeeded in his action. He acted alone, going out to play solo on the M-1 [carbine], and did what tens of brigades and platoons, and hundreds of missiles and heroic stories, failed to do.
He is made of the same stuff as those who carried out the capture of Shalit, a military action that was successful by any military yardstick, and now he [Thaer Hamed] should be freed." (Editor-in-chief, Hafez Barghouti, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida)
What a stupid comment by Yuli
The Hamas gang that killed 4 israeli servicemen in across border raid and
and captured Gilad Schalit caused the GAZA WAR of 2008 and all that
came after that -- so you and M . Martin can see what that achieved .