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Al Qaeda Using Children as Suicide Bombers
Khaleej Times (IN)/AFP
Al-Qaeda is using children as suicide bombers in Iraq, with at least two attacks in the past week committed by 15-year-olds, a US military commander claimed on Sunday. “We are not sure whether one of these children even knew he was being used to deliver a bomb,” Rear Admiral Gregory Smith told a news conference in Baghdad. One attack was carried out at a funeral ceremony near Tikrit, executed dictator Saddam Hussein’s home town 180 kilometers north of Baghdad and the other was at a school in the northern city of Mosul, Smith said. He gave no details of the two bombings. Iraqi police said 17 people died in a January 21 suicide blast at the funeral ceremony near Tikrit for relatives of an Iraqi police colonel. “Al-Qaeda in Iraq is trying to brainwash children with hate and death... they seek to create a culture of violence, hate and despair,” said Smith. “(They) are sending 15-year-old boys on suicide missions to spread death and helplessness.” Smith quoted Sheikh Ahmed Abu Reesha, leader of the ‘Anbar Awakening’ that has ended much of Al-Qaeda’s hold over western Iraq, as saying that the jihadists were using suicide bombers as a last resort.

An explosion in a Christian neighborhood outside Beirut leaves five dead and scores injured. Among those killed, a government intelligence official who specialized in investigating terrorist activity.

Saudi Arabia and Tehran Step into Gaza Crisis
DEBKAfile
On the sixth day of the Palestinian surge out of Gaza into northern Sinai, Egyptian intelligence is discovering that, far from being chaotic, it was minutely planned by the fundamentalist Hamas group which rules the Gaza Strip. According to DEBKAfile’s military sources, each of the estimated half a million Gazans in flight, one-third of the total population, received a $300 grant, which accounts for the shopping spree they could suddenly afford. Hamas was therefore willing to spend $15 million on a maneuver for seizing control of an enclave in northern Sinai. Egyptian border troops were forced to stand aside by this mass of surging humanity. Dozens were injured by gunmen shooting from inside the mob. Early Monday, Jan. 28, Cairo deployed a border guard brigade in the northern Sinai town of El Arish, to hold the line against the spread of the Palestinian tide into the largest town in the peninsula. It is calculated that if the Palestinians take over El Arish, they will use as a springboard to advance on Egypt proper.

Muslim Brotherhood Rally in Support of Hamas
Reuters
Chanting slogans urging Islamist Hamas militants to resume suicide bombings against Israel, thousands of Jordanians marched in the capital on Friday to protest against Israel's blockade of Gaza. About 8,000 activists from Jordan's mainstream Muslim Brotherhood took to the streets to support their ideological allies, the Palestinian Hamas group, and hail militants' success in breaching the Gaza border in defiance of an Israeli blockade. "The people of Jordan are with Hamas," chanted the crowds who called on the Islamist group to resume a campaign of suicide bombings and intensify rocket attacks against Israel. ""Oh Hamas hit them with al-Qassam rockets...bring the suicide bombers to Tel Aviv," they chanted, waving the green flags of Jordan's opposition Muslim Brotherhood. Israel said it had tightened its Gaza blockade last week to counter cross-border rocket fire, but after an international outcry, fuel and aid supplies were partially restored.

Israelis Kills Top Hamas Terror Commander
The Daily Star (LE)/AFP
An Israeli air strike killed the Hamas military commander for the Gaza-Egypt border town of Rafah on Friday, the latest in a spate of deadly raids on the Islamist-controlled Gaza Strip. Mohammad Harb was killed along with one of his lieutenants when an Israeli missile struck their car, medical sources said. During Thursday night, two other members of the military wing of the Islamist Hamas movement which controls Gaza were also killed when two Israeli missiles slammed into their jeep. Over the past 10 days, Israel has killed 45 Palestinians, most of them militants, in ground and air attacks on Gaza. In turn, armed groups have fired some 200 rockets or mortar rounds into southern Israel, slightly wounding 10 people. An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the latest raids saying that they had hit "Palestinians implicated in acts of terrorism." Harb was suspected of involvement in rocket and mortar fire against southern Israel and preparing other attacks, she said. Military sources, cited by public radio, said Harb was also suspected of involvement in a deadly cross-border raid from Gaza in June 2006 in which an Israeli soldier was captured. The soldier remains held, despite Israeli efforts to find him. Harb commanded Hamas forces in the divided Egyptian frontier town of Rafah, where militants blew up sections of the border fence Tuesday night allowing hundreds of thousands of Gazans to pour over border. The action enabled the territory's 1.5 million inhabitants to stock up on basic supplies in defiance of a complete lockdown imposed by the Israeli Defense Ministry last week.

Explosion Rocks Beirut, 5 Dead
Yahoo! News/AP
A car bomb exploded in a Christian neighborhood of Beirut on Friday killing at least five people, including a top police official who dealt with terrorist bombings and had previously been targeted, authorities said. The blast in Hazmieh on the Lebanese capital's Christian eastern edge set dozens of vehicles ablaze and ripped a giant crater in the asphalt. The national police chief, Brig. Gen. Ashraf Rifi, said one of those killed was Capt. Wissam Eid, a senior police intelligence official. Eid was an engineer who was handling "very important" files, including "all those having to do with the terrorist bombings" in Lebanon, Rifi said. Lebanon has been hit by a series of explosions, some of them political assassinations, amid a deepening 14-month political crisis. Syria has been blamed in many of the bombings, but it has denied any role...It was the second attack against the police intelligence department in less than two years.

More Headlines:
Israelis Thwart Jihadi Rail Bombing Haaretz/Reuters
Explosion in Beirut Targets US Vehicle MyWay News/AP
Bush Calls Iran 'Leading Terror Sponsor' London Telegraph
'Syria, Iran Trying to Overthrow Abbas' The Jerusalem Post
US Airstrike One of Largest of Iraq Battlefront USA Today
American School Bombed in Gaza Israel National News
UNFIL Troops Attacked in Lebanon The Daily Star (LB)
Fatah al-Islam Threatens Lebanese Army Reuters
American Al Qaeda Urges Attacks on Bush Khaleej Times/Reuters
Al-Qaeda Videos Now on Cell Phones MyWay News/AP

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