Israel Assassinates Hamas Resistant in Syria 
A car bomb in the Syrian capital, Damascus, killed a senior member of the Palestinian resistant group Hamas, Ezzeddine Sobhi Sheikh Khalil, Sunday, September 26, 2004. The Israeli authorities had vowed to hit Hamas leaders “wherever they are” after bomb attacks in August in Beersheba left 16 people dead. Hamas accused Israel of the killing, saying, “We blame Mossad for putting a bomb in Khalil’s car.” Khalil, 39, was a senior figure in the group’s military wing and a member of the generation that set the group up.