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  History News Network
Israeli officials disavowed knowledge of the blast that killed 42-year-old Izzedine Sheik Khalil, who had lived in the Syrian capital for the last 13 years and was reportedly a member of the group's military wing.
In 1988, Arafat's chief deputy, Khalil Wazir, was slain by Israeli commandos in Tunisia.
Khalil was one of a group of Hamas activists expelled by Israel to south Lebanon in late 1990.
hnn.us /roundup/entries/7691.html   (629 words)

  
 NameTraq | Last Name: Khalil
Mohamed Khalil Kader Mohamed, the police chief of the administrative capital of Putrajaya, said police thought they were on the trail of grown up thieves until...
Khalil, a local resident, said he bought a bag from one of the government shops and all his family members started having stomach problems.
Khalil Mustafa, a Syrian Kurd, was arrested on 6 August 2003, reportedly in connection with an alleged debt.
www.nametraq.com /genealogy_jan04/K/Khalil.shtml   (2339 words)

  
 Al-Awda/PRRC - Al-Awda Condemns Assassination of Izz-el-Deen al-Sheikh Khalil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ghassan Kanafani, Abu Jihad (Khalil al-Wazir), Naji al-Ali, Abu Ali Mustafa and numerous other Palestinian leaders, activists and thinkers were murdered with the hope of weakening the Palestinian resistance.
Khalil in the heart of Damascus illustrates in no uncertain terms the Zionists' disregard and outright contempt to the tenants of international law and the U.N. Charter.
Khalil is a tacit recognition on the part of the Zionist leadership of its failure to put an end to the heroic Aqsa Intifada, which has now entered its fifth year.
www.al-awda.org /alawdacondemnsassassinationofizzeldeenalsheikhkhalil   (179 words)

  
 Damascus: Car bombing is 'Israeli state terrorism'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
While not confirming or denying Israeli involvement in Khalil's death, Israeli officials said he was involved in the transfer of arms from Syria and Lebanon to Hamas hands in the Palestinian territories.
Khalil, who is survived by two sons and a daughter, may have been an easier target than other Hamas leaders because he lived outside the well-guarded Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp.
Khalil, 42, used to work for Hamas in the Gaza Strip and was deported by Israel to Lebanon from the Gaza Strip.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1227652/posts   (5872 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL PRESS CENTER-PALESTINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Khalil Ibrahim Al Wazir (Abu Jihad) was born on October 10, 1935 in the city of Al Ramleh in Palestine, from where he left with his family following the 1948-Cataclysm (Al Nakba) to Gaza.
As a member of Fateh, Khalil Al Wazir was tasked with running the movement's magazine, "Falastinuna" (Our Palestine), which turned into a lighthouse for other Palestinian movements around the Arab world.
From Kuwait, Khalil –who was known by now as Abu Jihad, moved to Algeria in 1963, where he started the first Fateh branch there.
www.ipc.gov.ps /ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_04/108.html   (1317 words)

  
 Khalil Ibrahim al-Wazir --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
Wazir fled from Ramla with his family during the 1948 war that followed the creation of the State of Israel.
As 'Arafat's deputy and a moderate within the PLO, Wazir often negotiated with PLO extremists, maintained diplomatic relations with other countries, and reportedly planned military strategies and arranged arms purchases for Fatah and the PLO.
After the PLO was expelled from Jordan in 1971, he eventually became an advocate of rapprochement with Jordan and played a role in increasing the PLO's emphasis on work in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9001394   (218 words)

  
 United Jerusalem - - Israel-News Today -- 9/27/2004
Israeli officials disavowed knowledge of the blast that killed 42- year-old Izzedine Sheik Khalil, who had lived in the Syrian capital for the last 13 years and was reportedly a member of the group´s military wing.
Khalil died instantly when his four-wheel-drive vehicle exploded just after he climbed in and started it, according to witnesses and news reports from the scene.
Khalil was probably a target of opportunity rather than choice.
www.unitedjerusalem.org /index2.asp?id=494333   (1563 words)

  
 Soccer Dad: Noms de guerre etc.
Another is that Gaza has a Khalil al Wazir neighborhood and the caption should read that her grandfather is from there.
KHALIL WAZIR, or Abu Jihad (''father of the holy war''), lived by the gun, had one in his hand, in fact, when he was assassinated in Tunis, reportedly by the Israelis.
Khalil Wazir was also something besides a terrorist.
soccerdad.baltiblogs.com /archives/006498.html   (908 words)

  
 Lies of the Allies--Now and Then
The Israeli invasion of Lebanese territory near the port city of Sidon, (which was lately shelled by Israeli-controlled "militia," with at least six Lebanese civilians dead), was defeated by the Shiite Amal fighters of Lebanon.
This Israeli state terrorist unit is responsible for kidnappings and assassinations such as that of Khalil al-Wazir, a Palestinian dissident, in Tunisia.
Wazir, better known as Abu Jihad, was killed by Flotilla 13.
www.revisionisthistory.org /palestine18.html   (772 words)

  
 JewishPress.com > News > View Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Khalil was killed when a bomb, apparently planted under the driver̓s seat of his white SUV, exploded when he answered a call to his cellular phone as he was pulling out of his parking place Sunday morning.
Khalil was expelled from Israel in 1992, one of 400 Hamas leaders taken to south Lebanon.
General Yisrael Ziv, head of the operations branch in the General Staff, told Channel 10 that Khalil was “a central Hamas activist.
www.thejewishpress.com /news_article.asp?article=4200   (663 words)

  
 MEI: The assassination of Shaykh Yasin
April 1st, 2004 -- The killing of Hamas’ founder and leader, Shaykh Ahmad Yasin, in Gaza on 22 March was Israel’s most significant political assassination since commandos gunned down Khalil al Wazir (Abu Jihad) in Tunis in May 1988.
Wazir was the PLO’s second-in-command, described by some as the main strategist behind the mass popular uprising then raging in the Occupied Territories.
For many Palestinians, especially in Wazir’s Fatah movement, it was a blow from which the first intifada never fully recovered.
meionline.com /newsanalysis/212.shtml   (1531 words)

  
 Put Arafat on Trial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The incontrovertible evidence of Arafat's complicity in murder goes back to 1973, when Palestinian terrorists invaded a diplomatic reception at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan and kidnapped two American diplomats and a Belgian diplomat.
The U.S. National Security Agency intercepted a communication between Yasser Arafat in Beirut and Khalil al-Wazir in the Khartoum office of Fatah.
According to James Welch, an American security agent who overheard the intercept, Arafat was directly involved in the operation, which was code-named Nahr al-Bard, or Cold River.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=3073   (676 words)

  
 HAMASONLINE - Islamic Resistance Movement - HAMAS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
April 21: Palestinian leader Khalil al-Wazir is buried in Yarmuk Camp, Damascus.
- Washington Post reports Zionist cabinet approved assassination of Khalil al-Wazir during April 13 meeting and that the operation was planned by Mossad and the Zionist army, navy and air force.
He demands a corridor between the OPT part of any overall Middle East peace settlement, and that "Arab Jerusalem" be the capital of the Palestinian state.
www.hamasonline.org /indexx.php?page=Palestine/palestineian_history_timeline_1963_1988   (5163 words)

  
 Biographies of Palestinian political leaders since 1967
PLC member for Jerusalem; served as PA minister for Jerusalem until position was eliminated on 9Jun02.
In Apr03, he was promoted as a compromise choice for interior minister, a position he reportedly refused to take in favour of PA secretary-general; further compromise left him in his current position.
Sabri al-Banna (Samir Khalil al-Banna)[Abu Nidal]: b.May 1937, Jaffa, the son of a wealthy fruit merchant and a Syrian ‘Alawi maid; attended French schools in Jaffa; a 1948 refugee in Gaza al-Bureij camp, later moving to Nablus (1949).
middleeastreference.org.uk /palbiograph.html   (13559 words)

  
 Dar Al Hayat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Some of these initiatives assumed the form of passive resistance, such as objecting to military service in the Palestinian occupied territories-an infection that has reached the elite commando unit, "Sayeret Matkal," which is described as the most committed and dedicated unit in the Israeli armed forces.
This is the same unit responsible for assassinating three Palestinian leaders in Beirut in 1973, and for assassinating the Palestinian leader Khalil Al Wazir (Abu Jihad) in Tunisia in April 1988.
Another form of passive resistance is the disobedience of air force pilots.
english.daralhayat.com /opinion/02-2004/Article-20040223-df49a875-c0a8-01ed-003d-b375423b89b9/story.html   (1894 words)

  
 HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
PLO military chief Khalil Wazir (Abu Jihad) gunned down byIsraeli commandos in Tunisia.
PLO military chief Khalil Wazir (Abu Jihad) gunned down by Israeli commandos in Tunisia.
PLO military chief Khalil Wazir (Abu Jihad) gunned down by Israeli commandos in Tunisia.1989-Aug. 18.
www.highbeam.com /library/search.asp?FN=AO&search_almanacs=on&refid=ency_refd&q=jihad   (447 words)

  
 Al-Quds University - Abu-Jihad Center for Political Prisoner's Affaris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Center was named after the code name for Mr.
Khalil Al-Wazir, one of the founders of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fateh), whose specific charge was the political structure of Fateh in the Occupied Territories, and who maintained close contacts with the prisoners from his headquarters abroad.
The Center, now located in rented offices in Ramallaha will soon be relocated to a special museum style building now under construction in the University's Abu Dis campus.
www.alquds.edu /centers_institutes/acppa/index.php   (204 words)

  
 CMIP - CENTER FOR MONITORING THE IMPACT OF PEACE: REPORTS
The term "Fida'i", i.e., "a warrior who is ready to sacrifice his life for a cause" has been a common epithet for members of the Palestinian organizations that have been engaged in terrorist activities against Jewish and Israeli civilians.
"The commander 'Izz al-Din al-Qassam fell as a martyr while fighting against the [British] occupation, whereas the commander Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad) fell as a martyr while fighting against the [Israeli] occupation." (National Education, Grade 6 (2000), p.
Khalil al-Wazir, alias Abu Jihad, was a senior commander of the Fatah terrorist organization and was responsible for numerous terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians.
www.edume.org /reports/7/11.htm   (624 words)

  
 Hamas = PA =Al Quds University = Abu Jihad Center for Political Prisoner's Affairs (Fatah) - Militant Islam Monitor - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
T he center is named after the code name for Mr.
Khalil Al-Wazir, one of the founders of the Palestinian National liberation movement (Fateh) and a martyr of the Palestinian revolution.
T he Abu Jihad's Center was established in 1999 to be the first center of its kind in the world that researches issues relating to political prisoners since the Israeli occupation of 1967.
www.militantislammonitor.org /article/id/21   (1935 words)

  
 A Dreamer Who Forced His Cause Onto World Stage (washingtonpost.com)
The uprising caught Arafat and the PLO in Tunis by surprise, but gradually they were able to harness it somewhat and use it to reassert their leadership.
As the street battles raged, the Israelis, convinced the uprising was organized by the PLO, sent a commando team to Tunis to assassinate Arafat's military commander and closest aide, Khalil Wazir, known as Abu Jihad.
In December 1988, a year after the uprising began, Arafat reversed PLO policy of almost 25 years and, in a speech to a special session of the U.N. General Assembly in Geneva, recognized Israel's right to exist.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A41509-2004Nov10_4.html   (1602 words)

  
 Israel Kills Hamas Chief, Drawing Vows of Revenge
Israeli security sources said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon personally ordered and monitored the helicopter attack against the paralyzed cleric, whose wheelchair lay smashed in a pool of blood after three missiles exploded.
It was the highest-profile assassination of a Palestinian since the April 1988 killing in Tunis of Palestinian commando chief Khalil al-Wazir.
At least seven other people died in the Gaza strike and two of Yassin's sons were among 15 wounded.
www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0322-02.htm   (938 words)

  
 palestine report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
His most famous operation was the assassination of Abu Jihad (Khalil al-Wazir), the second man in Fateh and the head of Fateh's military operations.
Barak was one of the people who put the final touches on the assassination operation.
According to Israeli sources, the two men were on an Israeli wanted list, which it handed over to the PA in the 1994 redeployment from the Gaza Strip.
www.jmcc.org /media/report/99/May/4b.htm   (3613 words)

  
 The Zionist Organization of America July 8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As a result, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging Clinton administration officials and Members of Congress to declare Zanoun persona non grata and refuse to meet with him if they visit Palestinian Authority-controlled territories.
A photograph in the Jerusalem Post on July 1, 1999 showed PNC speaker Zanoun praying at the tomb of Abu Jihad (Khalil Wazir) in Damascus, Syria.
Abu Jihad was the number two official in the PLO after Yasir Arafat until his death in 1988.
www.geocities.com /trachon/hazeev/tomb.htm   (313 words)

  
 Farewell to arms - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He was Abu Mazen when Salah Khalaf was Abu Iyad, Khalil Wazir was Abu Jihad and Arafat was Abu Ammar.
A refugee from his homeland since 1948, Abbas earned a law degree in Damascus and a PhD in Moscow, before joining Arafat in founding the al Fatah in the mid-60s, and began advocating from the mid-70s the line of a negotiated settlement with Israel.
He rose quickly in the Palestinian hierarchy after Salah Khalaf and Khalil Wazir had been taken care of by Israel’s assassins and Arafat embraced the option of a compromise with Israel.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jan062005/top.asp   (973 words)

  
 Abu Ammar/Yasser Arafat 1929 - 2004: Fighting for peace - PRAVDA.Ru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
After working in Egypt for seven years, he went to Kuwait in 1958.
Here, he met Khalil El-Wazir (Abu Jihad) and they together planned the founding of the Fatah movement (in Arabic, Al-Fatah means "victory through Jihad" and is the reverse spelling of Hataf, Harekat at-Tahrir al-Wataniyyeh al-Falastiniyyeh, "Palestine Homeland Liberation Movement").
Back in Palestine, Yasser Arafat launched the Palestinian movement on 1st January, 1965, liaising with activists living in Jerusalem, before moving to Jordan in 1967, following the Six-day war.
english.pravda.ru /printed.html?news_id=14571   (642 words)

  
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Within hours, the PFLP claimed responsibility for shooting and fatally wounding 38-year-old Jewish settler Meir Lichsenberg near Ramallah in a revenge attack.
Palestinians said Mustafa was the most senior Palestinian political leader killed by Israel since Khalil Wazir, better known as Abu Jihad, was assassinated in Tunis in 1988.
One missile decapitated Mustafa and the other ripped through his body while he sat behind his desk, his colleagues said.
www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/2001cov/Israel_Assassinates_Head_of_PFLP   (753 words)

  
 RW ONLINE:Barak: America's Death Squad Peacenik
In 1973, he was part of a commando operation into Beirut, Lebanon to murder three leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
In 1988, Barak commanded the political assassination of top PLO leader Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad) in Tunis where the PLO was headquartered at the time.
While Barak oversaw the operation from a ship off the coast of Tunisia, Israeli commandos riddled al-Wazir's body with bullets.
rwor.org /a/v21/1005-009/1008/barak.htm   (1283 words)

  
 Khalil al-Wazir, PLO milt commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos April 16 in History
Khalil al-Wazir, PLO milt commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos April 16 in History
Khalil al-Wazir, PLO milt commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
www.brainyhistory.com /events/1988/april_16_1988_161086.html   (43 words)

  
 MiddleEast.org - Mid-East Realities
Check the posts of that impostering khazar-jew calling himself (khalil al wazir) and posing as an Arab,they think Ameicans are soooo dumb,so a stupid trick like that will pass on them.
Phony Zaki, everytime you show up there is a problem with stealing people's identities and messages from other boards.
Both of you go home and leave the adult topics to the adults.
www.middleeast.org /forum/fb-public/1/111.shtml   (434 words)

  
 IsraelBehindTheNews.com
The sentiment could be seen particularly during the sermons broadcast on PA radio and television.
On December 13, the official Voice of Palestine radio and the Palestinian Satellite Channel, which is an official station of the PA, broadcast a 35-minute live sermon by Sheik Ibrahim Mudayris from the Khalil Al Wazir mosque in Gaza City.
In the sermon, Mudayris appealed to God to avenge the tyrants of the world.
israelvisit.co.il /cgi-bin/friendly.pl?url=Dec-31-02!plo   (1611 words)

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