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Israel-Palestine
Arafat Fortifies Compound Fearing Attack
2004-05-06
Yasser's used car lotPalestinian leader Yasser Arafat fortified his headquarters with dozens of rusty, wrecked cars and blue barrels of concrete Thursday, fearing an imminent Israeli attack.
"They'll never take me alive! They're comin' to get me! I'm toast!"
Hilarious picture, all the Paleos are doing is providing more cover for the Israeli snipers.
Arafat told visitors he would not go down without a fight, but his aides acknowledged that the obstacles placed around the compound, meant to slow down tanks, would not hold back Israel's powerful military for long. "I am going to enter this battle with my gun by my side," a visitor quoted Arafat as saying Thursday. "I will resist until I become a martyr."
Yasser's waved his gun around a lot more than he's actually shot it...
Israeli officials said there was no immediate plan to raid Arafat's compound. "We are not going to carry out any operation, but they are hysterical," Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's spokesman, Raanan Gissin, said of Arafat and his aides.
"Of course, that's the way we want them to be, isn't it?..."
Posted by:Fred

#16  Does Yasser have a son named Lamont?
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-05-07 4:07:03 AM  

#15  This seems like a job for a giant catapult or a heavy lift chopper. What do you think the result might be if Israel started lobbing or dropping dozens of other wrecked cars into the compound? Yasser's got a bad ticker you know...
Posted by: Anony-mouse   2004-05-06 7:01:45 PM  

#14  I'm wondering if he allows picking rights to the ex-cars. I'm in the market for chevy V-6 231.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-05-06 5:06:46 PM  

#13  "There's no place like home!"
Posted by: Seafarious   2004-05-06 4:25:59 PM  

#12  Arafat Fortifies Compound Fearing Attack

It depends on what the meaning of "fortifies" is.

When the IDF is about to close in, he'd better do a sponge bath if possible, and put on some cologne. Those 72 virgins may object to the natural aroma he probably projects after all that time in his compound.

Blue concrete filled barrels?

Which highway project did he steal those from?
Posted by: BigEd   2004-05-06 3:38:18 PM  

#11  A couple of JDAMs and the compound will look like the pile of red earth and rubble in front of the compound. I do not know what the neighboring real estate situation is around the compound, but a MOAB would give Ramallah a fresh start with little dozing after the deed is done.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-05-06 3:15:39 PM  

#10  just cannot wait until this guy is dusted...but then again according to kerry he is a great statesmen...
Posted by: Dan   2004-05-06 2:28:16 PM  

#9  The more I think about it, the more I think, "Barnes Wallis 'Tallboy.'"

There are two flyable Avro Lancasters left. Could we borrow one?
Posted by: Mike   2004-05-06 2:11:23 PM  

#8  So, is it correct that Arafat's "compound" is that pile of rubble in the middle distance, between the paleo-redneck parking lot and the ghetto in the back ?
Posted by: Carl in N.H   2004-05-06 12:19:58 PM  

#7  There's no overhead cover. (Hint: JDAMs aren't ground weapons.)
Posted by: Mike   2004-05-06 12:05:08 PM  

#6  Just do it, Israel!
My ululators's getting rusty.
Posted by: Jen   2004-05-06 11:52:47 AM  

#5  All he managed to do is cut back on his field of fire and provide cover for the Israelies when they attack. Dumbass.
Posted by: Yosemite Sam   2004-05-06 11:49:50 AM  

#4  Methinks Yashole Arafat has more to fear from Hamas than the Israelies.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2004-05-06 11:44:17 AM  

#3  first the dreaded red binder, now blue barrels - it's a primary colors defense
Posted by: Frank G   2004-05-06 11:39:49 AM  

#2  His compound now looks like the dumping ground for all of the car swarm wrecks. Is it a post-modern cemetary?
Posted by: Lux   2004-05-06 11:37:21 AM  

#1  I am going to enter this battle with my gun by my side. I will resist until I become a martyr.

Sounds like a plan! When it is over, and after you've got acquainted with those virgins, why don't you get together with Sheik Yassin, and ask him how his resistance to the IDF worked out?
Posted by: BigEd   2004-05-06 11:32:11 AM  

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