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| Rantissi sez he's sorry about those dead guys... |
| 2002-08-03 |
| Hamas spokesman Abdel Aziz Rantisi expressed Friday regret for the deaths of the Americans in Wednesday's Jerusalem bombing at Hebrew University. "They are American citizens who just came here to visit," he told The Associated Press. "Our battle is against the occupation." However, he said he was referring only to "pure" American citizens, "not those who have dual (U.S.-Israeli) citizenship." "Those corpses are okay..." In another interview, he said he was "sorry about the death of Americans or foreigners". "We are sorry about the deaths of foreigners or Americans ... Hamas' Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades only target Israelis and nobody else," he stressed. But he said that while Hamas regretted the deaths it would not apologize to Washington. "Hamas will not send any message of apology to the United States because they don't send us their apologies when Israel kills our sons with a US green light and US arms," he added. I love these little conversations. We should have them more often. Note the arrogant assumption of sovreign equality with the United States? That assumption that we speak on the same level, you know, Hamas and the U.S. — like, hermanos? Pretty soon they'll be asking to borrow money, and to use the National Lawn Mower. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |