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| Hamas leaders go underground, threaten ’earthquake’ in Israel | |
| 2003-06-12 | |
| JPost - Reg Req'd... Sounds like the gloves are off Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip have gone into hiding for fear that Israel might try to kill them, Palestinian sources said Thursday. Ya think? According to the sources, most of the leaders of Hamas, including prominent political figures like Mahmoud Zahar, Ismail Abu Shanab and Ismail Haniyeh, have "disappeared" from their homes following the botched assassination attempt against Abdel Aziz Rantissi on Tuesday. Hamas officials in Gaza City confirmed that the movement's top leaders were hiding, saying they have decided to take precautionary measures to protect themselves against possible Israeli retaliatory attacks. "Send the fodder out, I, uh, have to wash my hair..." One of Hamas's senior spokesmen, Ismail Haniyeh, called off a live interview on al-Jazeera Thursday after he said he heard Israeli helicopters hovering over the area. "I now have to stop this interview because I can hear helicopters in the air," he told the Arab TV station before hanging up the phone. too bad that was just a cellphone.... guess they're onto that one Palestinian Authority officials in the Gaza Strip told The Jerusalem Post that the Hamas leaders are convinced that the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has taken a decision to wipe out the Hamas leadership. "They're very nervous," one official said. "Most of them have moved to safe houses and have minimized their contacts with the outside world. Only a very few people know where they are." that can't be conducive to carrying out more attacks, hmm? Hamas on Thursday called on all its leaders and top members "to mobilize, be vigilant and take all the measures and precautions necessary." It also ordered "all military cells" to take immediate action and carry out more attacks against Israel. The movement urged foreigners to leave Israel and the West bank and Gaza Strip for their own safety. Hamas said in a statement that more attacks would follow. The bus bombing [in Jerusalem] "is the beginning of a new series of attacks and part of a bill the Zionists must pay," a Hamas statement said. "We call upon all foreigners to evacuate the Zionist entity immediately in order to protect their lives. We call on all military cells to act immediately and act like an earthquake to blow up the Zionist entity and tear it to pieces."
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| Posted by:Frank G |
| #8 Hamas is convinced Sharon wants them wiped out because the Israeli government has ordered it 'Bout goddam time. Let Allah sort 'em out. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2003-06-12 20:27:35 |
| #7 Maybe Hamas is convinced Sharon wants them wiped out because the Israeli government has ordered it: Israeli army radio reports the army has been ordered to 'completely wipe out' the Palestinian Islamic militant group Hamas, a day after a suicide bomber killed 16 people on a Jerusalem bus. Israeli helicopters killed nine Palestinians in strikes on militants after the bombing, leaving the US-backed peace "roadmap" in tatters. Israeli Internal Security Minister Tzachi Hanegbi says no Hamas leader is safe. The army order, which directs the military to use "whatever means necessary," was issued following a meeting of Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz with the army's top command shortly after the attack. It is directed not only at the infrastructure of the organisation, but at its leadership, with everyone, "from the lowliest member to Sheikh Ahmad Yassin," a Hamas founder and its spiritual guide, as a legitimate target. |
| Posted by: growler 2003-06-12 18:10:51 |
| #6 Agree with D.S. The head on the post should be more like "Hamas Leaders Call Full Mobilization. All Will Soon Be Underground." |
| Posted by: Hodadenon 2003-06-12 17:46:04 |
| #5 That rumbling those Hamas boys are feeling ain't the earth moving, it's their bowels trembling. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2003-06-12 17:24:59 |
| #4 Reading that headline, I can't avoid the mental picture of a bunch of Hamas guys with picks and shovels: "Keep digging, Mahmoud; the fault line must be down here somewhere!" |
| Posted by: Mike 2003-06-12 17:06:46 |
| #3 Alligator mouths... and hummingbird asses. Find 'em all. Kill 'em all. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-06-12 16:55:37 |
| #2 "We call on all military cells to act immediately and act like an earthquake to blow up the Zionist entity and tear it to pieces." Hamas said it would "teach the criminal enemy new painful lessons" and that the "Gaza Strip, if the enemy invades it, will be transformed into a graveyard for the invaders". Invade? Who the hell wants to invade? Carpet-bomb, sure, but invade? |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-06-12 16:22:18 |
| #1 Hamas leaders go underground, threaten 'earthquake' in Israel Six feet underground would be fine with me. |
| Posted by: Dripping Sarcasm 2003-06-12 15:55:37 |