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| Bomb Britons’ Hamas terror video |
| 2004-03-08 |
| Palestinian militant group Hamas has said it carried out a suicide bombing a year ago as it releases a video of two Britons it used for the attack. Londoner Asif Hanif, 21, killed three people and injured 55 by blowing himself up in Tel Aviv, last April. Omar Khan Sharif, 27, of Derby, is thought to have fled after explosives strapped to his body failed. Slacker. Hamas released the video on Monday to mark the first anniversary of the killing of leader Ibrahim al-Maqadma. One of the Islamist organisation’s military leaders and founders, Mr al-Maqadma died in an Israeli helicopter missile attack on a car in Gaza city. Damm, I forgot to send a card. Maybe next year. Mr Hanif blew himself up in a beachfront pub called Mike’s Place. Mr Sharif’s body was later found washed up on an Israeli beach. Swimming "accident"? In the video, released on Monday, the pair are shown brandishing assault rifles and calling on God to punish Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W Bush. In a statement released with the video, Hamas’s military wing said the bombing had been a message to Israel that the group "has many options to fight against you as long as you are occupying your land and committing massacres against our people". And it called Mr al-Maqadma an international figure whose death merited an international response. Well, we’re celebrating, is that international enough for you? In the video, Mr Sharif delivers a tirade in English against Israel and the Muslim world. He says: "Muslims are being killed everyday. It is an honour to kill one of those people [Jews]." Mr Hanif, from Hounslow, west London, calls on Muslims everywhere to be "people of action". Mr Sharif, who was married, says he visited a farm destroyed during an Israeli incursion in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia. "You spend the whole day in fields, and then some dude comes with his truck and runs over it. How would you feel? You feel like standing him up, shooting him... because you have worked for a whole day like that." Dude, there wouldn’t be a truck in the field if guys like you were not boarding buses wearing bombs. Mr Hanif delivers a traditional speech of Koranic verses, and the men pray in a Gaza flat. The video’s release comes a day after Israeli troops killed 14 Palestinians in a raid of a Gaza Strip refugee camp. Now that’s something to celebrate. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #3 Are baby ducks kosher? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-3-8 12:21:20 PM |
| #2 "as long as you are occupying your land" at least they seem to indicate the Israeli's are occupying their own land. That's a step in the right direction, assuming its not a typo. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2004-3-8 12:17:49 PM |
| #1 "You spend the whole day in fields, and then some dude comes with his truck and runs over it. . . . You feel like standing him up, shooting him... because you have worked for a whole day like that." Yeah. If someone ruined what I worked on for a whole day I'd have no choice but to shoot him. I mean, after all, I worked the entire day on it, dude! Am I right? Dude? Dude? |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2004-3-8 11:44:26 AM |