Israel says Hamas leader in Syria is target for assassination
By: Associated Press
Published: June 28, 2006
An Israeli Cabinet minister said Wednesday that Hamas' Syria-based leader, Khaled Mashaal, is a target for assassination for ordering the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip.
"He is definitely in our sights ... he is a target," Justice Minister Haim Ramon told Army Radio Wednesday. Mashaal is responsible for the attack on an Israeli army base in which two soldiers were killed and a third kidnapped, Ramon said.
Israel tried to kill Mashaal in a botched assassination attempt in Jordan in 1997.
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