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| Middle East |
| Hamas vows to hit Israeli leadership |
| 2002-08-11 |
| The militant Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said on Friday that it will target Israeli leaders in response to the Jewish state's tactic of killing senior Palestinian militants behind attacks on Israelis. Usama Hamdan, who heads Hamas in Lebanon, said Israel's killing in recent weeks of two senior Hamas figures – one in an air strike that left 14 others dead – meant Hamas's military actions should expand beyond suicide bombings in public places. "From here on out, targeting a leader, minister, or the head of the government of the Zionist entity will be treatment in kind, particularly since they are giving the orders (to kill Palestinians)," he told Reuters. "The Palestinian response will extend to the killers and it will extend to those who consent to being ruled by the killers." Ummm... That sounds like a really good way to get the head of Hamas in Lebanon killed... Hamdan was voicing a harder line taken by Hamas recently against individual Israeli leaders. A more senior Hamas figure said on Wednesday that the group, which has killed dozens of Israelis in suicide bombings during the Palestinian uprising, should target Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to avenge a Hamas leader shot by an Israeli sniper in Gaza. That would be a bad move. A very bad move. The Paleostinian Hamdan's comments came as Palestinian cabinet members met U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in Washington for talks on Palestinian reforms Washington wants to focus on revamping security forces to take on militant groups like Hamas. Well, it ain't gonna happen. If it did, they'd have a Paleostinian civil war — and Hamas would probably win it. We don't care if that happens, but Yasser does. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |