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| Palestinian Security Forces Wound Hamas Militant |
| 2003-07-11 |
| Palestinian security officers shot and wounded a member of the Islamic militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip as Security Minister Mohammad Dahlan’s convoy drove past after talks with Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz. Security sources said on Friday Dahlan’s bodyguards opened fire late on Thursday when they believed the man posed a threat to the security minister following the talks. "Hey, that guys looking funny at us. Shoot him!" Witnesses said Dahlan’s bodyguards shot into the air and then fired at the man. Security sources said the man, who was standing at the side of the road, was armed. Who in Gaza isn’t armed? The witnesses said Hamas militants later gathered outside the Palestinian security forces’ office and fired their rifles in the air before throwing three hand grenades at the office. Dire Revenge(tm) time. Hamas official Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi identified the wounded man as Mohammed Assimri and denied he had represented a threat to the convoy. "We maintained restraint but things will return to normal only when the people who fired at Assimri are prosecuted," he told Reuters. I thought shooting people at random was normal in Gaza? |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #5 Now if only the PA would do this to Hamas and Islamic Jihad.... |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-7-11 1:46:07 PM |
| #4 The witnesses said Hamas militants later gathered outside the Palestinian security forces’ office and fired their rifles in the air before throwing three hand grenades at the office. Jeez... you solve this problem by firing your rifles not in the air, but at them while they're firing their rifles in the air -- and before they toss some grenades at you. |
| Posted by: snellenr 2003-7-11 1:24:56 PM |
| #3 Dahlan to Mofaz: We need more prisoners released for street cred. Mofaz to Dahlan: You want prisoners released you need cred with us. We've seen only a handful of PA actions against ticking bombs, and one of them you released. Dahlan to aides: Shoot a Hamasnik, please. Hamas: We know what hes trying. Well he isnt going to use us like that - lets show him we mean business. Now Abbas/Dahlan have to either crackdown or backdown. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-7-11 11:40:50 AM |
| #2 ...but things will return to normal only when the people who fired at Assimri are prosecuted..." I'm sorry, but my brain just nearly blew a gasket trying to process this sentence. First of all, you mean its' not normal for armed palestinians to carry weapons and fire in the air? It's seems like they'll do that for any occasion these days, funerals, 9/11, photo-ops, etc... Next, when they claimed to have maintained restraint, were they aware that lobbing grenades at the PA security office is kind of like a throwing a temper tantrum ... with shrapnel? Maybe what they meant was, "We had 20 grenades, but we only used three." |
| Posted by: Dripping Sarcasm 2003-7-11 11:21:23 AM |
| #1 Remember how we armed the Afghan warlords against the Taliban? Maybe we can arm Mohammad Dahlan against some of the Palestinian terrorists. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2003-7-11 10:22:10 AM |