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May 6, 2008       Share:    

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSL05686115

Headmaster at UN School Was Islamic Jihad Rocket-Maker

[Reuters] Adam Entous - By day, Awad al-Qiq was a respected science teacher and headmaster at an UNRWA school in Gaza. By night, Palestinian militants say, he built rockets for Islamic Jihad. An Israeli air strike killed Qiq, 33, last week. His family denied he had any militant links, despite a profusion of Islamic Jihad posters at his home. But militant leaders hailed him as a martyr who led Islamic Jihad's "engineering unit."

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