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Middle East
PA preventive security elements organize provocative march against Hamas
2003-09-25
Scores of elements affiliated with the Palestinian Authority’s preventive security apparatus organized a provocative march in the Gaza streets on Monday night chanting against the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas.
Chanting? Oh, horrors!
The march grouping around 500 security elements in plain clothes was organized in the Shati refugee camp as Zionist F-16 warplanes were flying over the Gaza Strip. About 100 armed men were at the forefront of the march some of whom were masked and started reiterating slogans against the Hamas Movement and its leaders.
"Yassin is a wussie!... Rantissi is a sissy!... Meshaal's momma is so-o-o-o-o ugly..."
Participants hailed their apparatus and its former chief Mohammed Dahlan, minister of internal security in the resigned PA government, and hoisted ten big Fatah banners.
"We're number one! We're number one!"
The march was void of any photo for PA chief Yasser Arafat.
"Boo! Yasser!"
The armed men fired in the air using light and heavy machineguns in the process and claimed that Hamas was employing mosques to ignite civil strife. An eyewitness said that one of the armed men was injured by mistake as a result of the intensified firing in the air.
"Boom-a-lakka! Boom-a-lakka! Yay, team... Ow! Where'd that come from?... Uhhh... One of you cheerleaders got a tourniquet?"
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#7  Wish I had an inport/export business. I would be setting up a Lousiville Slugger outlet in PLO land. Could also stock car antenas, bicycle chains, tire irons and aerodynamically suprerior granite samples.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-9-25 7:05:03 PM  

#6  Franks probably right tu, theyre not ready to hit the mattresses yet. But the consiglieres are busy planning and maneuvering as they wait for Don Corleone to pass on.

Or for another analogy - its like Indonesia 1965 - Sukarno was dying and the military and the Communists were maneuvering for position. Very dangerous time, since theres advantage to striking first, and lots of incentives to move BEFORE the old man dies, despite pressure to keep the peace while hes alive.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2003-9-25 2:41:39 PM  

#5  This is great. When do Don Barzini and the Tattaglias show up?
Posted by: tu3031   2003-9-25 1:28:15 PM  

#4  "Sounds like swords are being sharpened for civil war."

If Arafat were a goner - I'd be all in agreement, LH. I think there'll be a bloodbath when he's dead as they jockey for power, but this just seems to be a demonstration that Dahlan's still a force to be reckoned with
Posted by: Frank G   2003-9-25 10:29:26 AM  

#3  presumably this was organized with Dahlan's approval. It comes shortly after defiant statements from Yassin. Sounds like swords are being sharpened for civil war.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2003-9-25 9:45:59 AM  

#2  The winter marching season is upon us. It would be fun to know how much ordinance is shot off for no good reason during an average 24 hour period in the ME.
Posted by: Shipman   2003-9-25 9:40:13 AM  

#1  [cackle] The laws of physics cannot be denied! What goes up must come down.

Whether the 50 cal. round hits you because it was aimed at you, or it hits you after falling a mile or so vertically from having been shot into the air doesn't matter, I expect.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins   2003-9-25 9:16:12 AM  

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