NOVANEWS
In Time magazine (!):
Pointing away from Gaza is the absence, apart from the funerals of the PRC leaders, of any sign of mourning for martyred sons — almost impossible to hide in so small a place — and the relative sophistication of the attack itself, “a very complex, very strange operation,” in the words of one militant. As many as a dozen attackers laid a midday ambush Aug. 18 on an Israeli highway that parallels the border with the Sinai Peninsula, a part of Egypt — accessible from Gaza — that has been especially lawless since police abandoned their post with the downfall of Hosni Mubarak. Assailants fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades (originally thought to be missiles) at civilian cars and busses. One bus was incinerated when an attacker, moving with what witnesses described as frantic speed, climbed aboard and detonated a suicide vest; only the driver had been on board.
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“I mean, the operation was still on when they assassinated our people,” says a spokesman for the PRC who goes by Abu Mujahed. An amiable man in his 30s, he wears smartly pressed slacks and an open shirt as he takes questions on a grassy yard in Khan Younis, the next town east from Rafah. “The way they controlled and managed to fight for hours, it shows that whoever’s behind it has a very strong organization structure. Its like they have a military background and experience in how to do this.”
(1) resistance forces in Gaza don’t have the training to carry out organized attacks like this, especially on hardened targets, as the PRC spokesperson admits elsewhere in the article; (2) this is why the Egyptian government has placed tanks and armored personnel carriers all over the roads weaving across the Sinai. the crossing itself is actually guarded by the Egyptian military, and most of the personnel are facing outwards — towards the Sinai.
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