DoubleTapper: Yes We Can

The IDF, working with the Shin Bet - Israel Security Agency (ISA), assassinated senior Al-Qaeda terrorist 27-year-old Mohammed Jamal a-Nahmnam (According to Arab press his name was Mohammed Jamal Al Nimnim) in Gaza on yesterday. A-Nahmnam belonged to the terrorist group affiliated with Al-Qaeda, Army of Islam (Jaish Al-Islam, a militant group affiliated with the salafist movement in the coastal enclave), and was responsible for security.

He was killed by a car bomb near the Hamas police station in Gaza City. According to a source in one of the Gaza organizations, the man was killed in a new Hyundai automobile which recently arrived in Gaza from Israel as part of the easing of the blockade. Hamas interior ministry had recently called on Palestinian buying the new cars to have them checked thoroughly, "for fear that Israel has planted listening devices or even booby-trapped them."

Hamas authorities said that the explosion was caused by an Israeli air strike which targeted a silver Daewoo car, outside the main police compound in the city.

Ihab al-Ghussein, from the Hamas-run interior ministry, said: "Investigations show that the explosion was caused by missile fire from an Israeli drone".

A-Nahmnam was involved in past terrorist attacks on Israel. Several small Gaza terrorist groups are affiliated with Al-Qaeda. The oldest is the “Army of Islam,” which took part in an attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing in which IDF soldier Gilad Shalit was kidnapped, and in the kidnapping of British reporter Alan Johnston in 2007. The group also planned to target former British Prime Minister Tony Blair during his visit to Gaza in July 2008.