Two more dead terrorists

The IDF killed two more terrorists. The news is all over the wires and various media. But there are details you will find only in the Israeli press. Details such as this:

Palestinian media reports claimed nine bystanders were wounded in the air strike and said the vehicle the two were traveling in had the red license plates of vehicles used by members of the PA security forces. According to the reports, the vehicle was hit just minutes after PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s convoy passed through the area.

One of the terrorists was a perfect example of what Mahmoud Abbas said he’d do: Bring the terrorists onto his security forces. Except for one thing. Abbas has never said he’d stop them from taking part in terror operations, and apparently, he did not.

Several times this year, Israel requested that the Palestinian Authority arrest Madhoun because his terrorist activities could lead to a sharp deterioration in the situation, but the requests were ignored. Madhoun had served in the PA’s Preventive Security Service and, according to the army, some of his activities were funded by Hamas.

So what was this upstanding palestinian citizen responsible for?

In March 2004, Madhoun dispatched the two suicide bombers who were smuggled in a false-backed container through the Karni crossing to Ashdod Port where they killed 10 Israelis. He was also involved in Kassam rocket production, including recent attacks.

Madhoun recruited and dispatched the female suicide bomber who was intercepted by troops as she was en route to blow herself up at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba. He was also involved in the January bombing at the Karni crossing in which six were killed and the January 2004 suicide bombing at the Erez crossing in which four were killed.

You won’t find that in the AP and Reuters articles, either. Instead, you get this:

The Israeli military said it had targeted the al Aqsa leader, who it said was responsible for suicide bombings and other attacks that had killed 20 Israelis.

Whoops, I take it back. The Reuters article does point out that the car had PA security plates–on the second page.

But the lead?

GAZA (Reuters) – Israel killed two Palestinian militant commanders in a missile strike in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, triggering vows to “open the gates of hell” for revenge attacks against the Jewish state.

The air raid was the latest in a week of violence, including the killing of five Israelis in a suicide bombing on Wednesday, that has deflated hopes that Israel’s Gaza pullout in September would revive peacemaking.

Uh-huh. By the way, for those who are keeping score: Reuters named the dead terrorists. In the third graf.