11.   Hamad headed Sarai al-Quds, the military wing of the radical Islamic Jihad, renowned for its suicide bombings against Israel.

12.   Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement, has a spiritual leadership of clerics, a political leadership of academics and activists, and a military wing.

13.   Hamas, the Arabic acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement, has a spiritual leadership of clerics, a political leadership of academics and activists, and a military wing.

14.   He said he had taken his instructions from members of the military wing of Hamas, the Izzedine al Qassem brigade.

15.   Ibrahim Makadmeh, leader of a Hamas military wing, had told a Hamas rally on Friday that only bombs could stop the Israeli housing project.

16.   In September, Israeli soldiers shot and killed Adel Awadallah, considered by the Israelis to have been the commander of the Hamas military wing in the West Bank.

17.   Israelis know that it is not easy for Arafat to deal with Hamas as an Islamic political movement, or to suppress its military wing.

18.   It was there that Israeli forces concentrated their searches, seizing several suspected members of the Islamic movement Hamas, whose military wing claimed responsibility for the bombings.

19.   Marzook, who now lives in Syria, has insisted that the Hamas political wing does not sponsor the violence by its military wing.

20.   Meanwhile, the political leaders of the Islamic resistance group Hamas publicly asked its military wing to stop the suicide bombings in Israel.