8 years since the "Engineer" was taken out

[S'13]

Yahya Ayyash (March 6, 1966 - January 6, 1996) was a terrorist, a member of the Hamas terrorist organization. He is credited with pioneering the technique of suicide bombing in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

He received a degree in electrical engineering from Beir Zeit University in 1988.

He became one of the chief bomb-makers for Hamas. In that capacity, he earned the nickname the Engineer. The bombings he orchestrated caused the deaths of more than 70 Israelis.

He was killed by the Israeli Shin Bet in 1996 following a massive manhunt. They were able to compromise one of Ayyash's fellow Hamas members, who gave him a cell phone full of explosives. When they confirmed Ayyash was using it, the Shin Bet detonated it, killing him instantly.


Aftermath
Israel did not confirm or deny its role in killing Ayyash. This led to wild rumors and speculations as to the extent of their involvement. Today, Israel makes it a policy not to do this.

http://world.std.com/~jlr/doom/ayyash.jpg

[EvanL]

Shin bet is israeli military intelligence am i right?

[ST4]

He was killed when he answered his cell phone or something like that. I believe it was the Israel secret service (or CIA like group) that planted C4 in his phone.

Anyone else got more details about the assassination?

[S'13]

He was killed when he answered his cell phone or something like that. I believe it was the Israel secret service (or CIA like group) that planted C4 in his phone.

Anyone else got more details about the assassination?

The Shin Bet is Israel's Internal (General) Security Service and in my opinion resembles the British MI5. Israel's equivalent to the American CIA is Ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim (it's shorter and more well known name is the Mossad).

[SOG]

hilarious, i remember seeing this covered on the history channel. popped his head like a zit...... or wait, did they do it to another guy? i dont remember the name "engineer". from what i remember he was elusive as hell and foiled many of thier attempts. after many failures of direct action they went covert like this. funny way to go seeing as what he did for a living. live by the bomb, die by the boom!

[ST4]

He was killed when he answered his cell phone or something like that. I believe it was the Israel secret service (or CIA like group) that planted C4 in his phone.

Anyone else got more details about the assassination?

The Shin Bet is Israel's Internal (General) Security Service and in my opinion resembles the British MI5. Israel's equivalent to the American CIA is Ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim (it's shorter and more well known name is the Mossad).

Damn it, now I can remember it was the Mossad. Thanks S'13! :D

[SOG]

book on it:

The Hunt for the Engineer: How Israeli Agents Tracked the Hamas Master Bomber
by Samuel M. Katz


amazon.com speel:

From Publishers Weekly
One of the bloodiest and most feared terrorists in the history of the Middle East, Yehiya Ayyash ("the Engineer") got his start in electronic engineering, innocuously monkeying about with family radios and TV sets. Indeed, Ayyash's original goal was to be an honest engineer, but when Israeli bureaucracy denied his routine application to study in Jordan, he joined Hamas and dedicated himself to a life of terror that lasted from 1994 to 1996 and resulted in 150 Israelis dead and 500 wounded. Katz's gripping book tells the story of Ayyash's early failures and his later, horrible successes, which included the Division Street and Dizengoff Street bombings. Katz, an expert on terrorism and counterterrorism, has written several other books about Middle East commandos, and much of the book is concerned with the history of various Israeli security forces, especially Shin Beit, and their attempts to catch the elusive bomber. It is unclear just who his sources are--they are identified broadly as "spies, soldiers, statesmen, and super-cops"--but the book, which details the histories of Islamic resistance groups as well, does not seem unfair. The concluding chapters, in which Katz pieces together the assassinations, within two months of each other, of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Ayyash (slain by an Israeli-engineered exploding cell phone), are particularly effective. The book's chilling epilogue, in which a new leader takes over Israel and new Palestinian bomb masters continue the killing, make it clear that the Middle East's troubles did not end with Ayyash's final phone call. (Dec.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
Yehiya Ayyash was a necessarily paranoid but very successful young Palestinian bomb builder known as "The Engineer." His three-year terror campaign in the mid-1990s killed 130 Israelis and wounded about 500 more. It also disrupted (as intended) Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's negotiation of a controversial peace deal with PLO leader Yasir Arafat. The intense pressure to catch Ayyash led to a massive international manhunt, and his killing just a couple of months after Rabin's assassination only... read more

Book Description
The untold story of the battle against a single man who unleashed a war of suicide bombers on Israel.
Yehiya Ayyash, a Palestinian bomb builder known to the world simply as "the Engineer," killed 130 Israelis and wounded about 500 more during a remarkable twenty-four months of terror. On April 6, 1994, the first powerful car bomb detonated by a suicide bomber killed eight and wounded some thirty people, and a week later a man on a crowded bus turned himself into a human bomb as he exploded fifty pounds of high-powered explosives. Other suicide bombings, in the center of Tel Aviv and elsewhere, followed with sickening regularity, while Ayyash, who masterminded them all, managed to elude the largest manhunt in Israeli history. Charismatic, dedicated, and cold-blooded, he soon evolved into a mythical figure, revered like a pop star among Palestinians. His pursuit involved thousands of agents spanning four continents, until he was at last killed in the blinding flash of a telephone bomb meant to exact biblical justice. In telling this cloak-and-dagger thriller with its rare look behind the scenes of Israel's security apparatus, Samuel M. Katz focuses on the merciless war of terror on Israel's streets, where bombs are shaping the political reality of the Middle East.


israeli hits:

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Terrorism/hits.html

http://www.israelemb.org/articals/2001082200.htm

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[Argyll]

Smokes,thats an extremely worrying confession you just made!!
Why would a non military person keep explosives such as you described in their abodes for a non commercial reason?
The very nature of what you propose is the same as an act of terrorism,if you were in the UK and were found you'd be held under the prevention of terrorism act!
I cannot belive you came here and just said what you did,in my book this would make you a very very dangerous person,don't know about the rest of you forum members,but I'd be questioning your motives and the legal implications of you having explosives for a non commercial reason buddy!!?

[alphabet]

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[Argyll]

Because I doubt that a Government employee would come here and tell us he had made exploding cigars.
As for being Military,do you not go through the same declarations when arriving/leaving a training base "About having no live rounds,empty cases or Pyrotechniques in your possession"

It's like someones saying they use claymores for rodent control in their back yard!!

I also see you edited the post ommiting your little project......scared?

[Caribou Kid]

Smokes, I think he's got ya there... :slap:

[citizen-k]

He was killed when he answered his cell phone or something like that. I believe it was the Israel secret service (or CIA like group) that planted C4 in his phone.

Anyone else got more details about the assassination?

The Shin Bet is Israel's Internal (General) Security Service and in my opinion resembles the British MI5. Israel's equivalent to the American CIA is Ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim (it's shorter and more well known name is the Mossad).

Damn it, now I can remember it was the Mossad. Thanks S'13! :D

No, it was the Shin-Bet (known toady as Shabak)

The Mossad operates outside Israel.

[alphabet]

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[Ichhabe]

Alright folks, for those of you who wonder who smokes is, he's my little brother, Mikey. He's only fifteen, just a kid; who is still in high school, and has never, and I repeat, NEVER made any sort of "cigar bomb" or "cigarette explosives." Any posts that he made should be ignored and or subsequently deleted. It was I who edited his posts for those who wanted to know. He is not an employee for any sort of government contractor or has been affiliated with the Depart Of Defense in any way shape or form. He was telling a tall tale that seems to have aroused suspicions of terrorism or terroristic activities on his part. My apologies for this grave misunderstanding and I hope that things turn out better in the future. There is nothing I hate more than a little conniving weasel who has nothing better to do then tell tall tales. I'm putting a stop to all this nonsense by changing everything over to my account on this computer and restricting his access so he is no longer able to access this site or any site connected to or involved with Militaryphotos.net, my formal apologizes to anyone who runs this site.

In closing, I want to apologize again for everything and wish you all a very good New Year.

-Bill "Alphabet"


I say...

Not to rub it in, but lets hope that the FBI doesn't show up at your doorsteps.
Happened here in Norway when they found the blue prints for an oil installation with places marked out were to put explosives. Turned out to be a 14 year old kid making a scenario for the James Bond Role playing game.

And to you alphabet: your brother is lucky to have you doing damage controle...