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| Classic Arafish: "I Feel The Smell Of Paradise" |
| 2003-10-23 |
| enormous hat tip to LGF! EFL Meanwhile, an aide who visited Arafat on Tuesday night said Arafat was jittery as Israeli forces surrounded a mosque about a half-mile from his Ramallah headquarters. Arafat, who has been confined to his compound in the West Bank town for nearly two years, feared Israeli troops might come after him, the aide said, declining to be identified. Arafat, who was holding a submachine gun in addition to his pistol, closed windows and shouted orders at his guards to take up positions. When the aide told him the Israeli operation was small, Arafat said, "You don’t know them. I do, so I have to be careful," the aide said. paranoia strikes deep....heh heh Arafat then insisted he would not be taken alive if the Israelis try to expel him. oh please oh please put up a fight "I feel the smell of paradise," Arafat reportedly said. Elsewhere in the West Bank, masked Palestinian gunmen killed two Palestinians accused of being informants for Israel and displayed their bodies in the central square of the Tulkarem refugee camp. The militants released a videotape of what they said was a confession by the two men. In the recording, which runs more than 30 minutes, the two, dressed casually and sitting next to each other, talk calmly to the camera. They say the information they gave to Israeli intelligence led to the deaths of several militants from Islamic Jihad and the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a militant group loosely linked to Arafat’s Fatah (news - web sites) faction. A member of Al Aqsa said the men were kidnapped two weeks ago and interrogated by Islamic Jihad, an Iranian-funded group that often cooperates with Al Aqsa in the West Bank. The Al Aqsa member said the two groups carried out the killings together "to share the honor." Israeli intelligence makes frequent use of Palestinian informants to target wanted Palestinians, and dozens of suspected collaborators have been killed by fellow Palestinians during three years of violence. An Israeli military court, meanwhile, sentenced a 23-year-old Palestinian woman to 320 years in prison for helping plan and carry out an August 2001 suicide bombing at a Jerusalem pizzeria that killed 15 people, including two Americans. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #1 Hit the Fish's tank with a JDAM full of Nitrous oxide. Give him his last laugh. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-10-23 11:52:14 PM |