The founder of Hamas said on Thursday the arrest of a Palestinian leader in Iraq suggested U.S. forces were now targeting leaders of a Palestinian uprising against Israel. "It (arrest of Abu Abbas) indicates that America is sinking its sharp teeth into Iraq and into Palestine," Sheikh Ahmed Yassin said. "It is a crusader's war against both. But it will be defeated. Our people are stronger than Israel and America," the wheelchair-bound Yassin said as 2,000 Palestinians marched and waved guns and made faces to mark Palestinian Prisoner Day. Some Palestinians now fear his arrest could herald a campaign by the United States, Israel's guardian ally, to round up Palestinian leaders connected with violence as part of the war on terror. "Let them arrest the whole Palestinian people. Resistance will never stop. We will continue Jihad (holy struggle) and resistance," Yassin said. "Whether we go to prison or whether they kill leaders, resistance will never stop before the liberation," he added
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