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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinians killed in missile strike
2006-01-03
Police in the Gaza strip say their superiors will not let them take on powerful crime families which are contributing to the anarchy gripping the territory. In the most recent incident, Palestinian medics say two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli missile strike on a car in the Jabaliyah refugee camp.
I'm not sure that has anything to do with taking on the Barzini Family...
The car reportedly belonged to members of the Islamic Jihad militant group.
The Tortellini Family of Islamic Jihad, I'd guess...
In central Gaza armed men loyal to the ruling Fattah faction ambushed a group of police and stole their vehicles after heavy exchange of fire.
Perhaps the police should go to the mattresses?
The men are part of an organisation that briefly kidnapped an Italian peace activist on the weekend.
That'd be Fat Mustafa and Greasy Thumb Abdul-Aziz. They're affiliated with the Canneloni Clan...
In the southern town of Rafah, police stormed a government building to protest against the growing lawlessness.
Police... stormed... a... gummint... building... to... protest... against... growing... lawlessness. My mind just boggled.
Earlier police and gunmen from a faction of the ruling Fatah movement exchanged fire in the Khan Younis area of the southern Gaza Strip. There were no reports of casualties in that incident.
Posted by:Fred

#13  The missile hit has nothing to do with Paleo incompetence or lack of will to fight the mobsters, it is just a typical Jew-baiting blurb included by the MSM.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2006-01-03 15:30  

#12  Police in the Gaza strip say their superiors will not let them take on powerful crime families which are contributing to the anarchy gripping the territory.

Making the assumption that these guys are on the up-and-up (a stretch, to be sure), who are their superiors' superiors? Seems to me that removing these obstacles would do the trick, assuming that the obstruction complaints aren't just phony excuses.

In the most recent incident, Palestinian medics say two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli missile strike on a car in the Jabaliyah refugee camp.

And this has to do with anarchy stoked by "crime families" in what way?
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2006-01-03 13:14  

#11  Excellent tourist opportunity to set up vacation packages for the anarchists of the world. Live The Dream of Your Life! You could use big puppets on the brochures.
Posted by: 2b   2006-01-03 12:26  

#10  Leave the gun. Take the falafal...
Posted by: tu3031   2006-01-03 10:50  

#9  Why would anybody become a paleo police officer ?
The pay ? The retirement benes ? Free parking ?
Free bullets ?
Posted by: wxjames   2006-01-03 10:28  

#8  The only reason they are protesting the crime and corruption is cuz they're not on the receiving end.

Paleo policy is, "if I've got mine, eff you! oh....and death to the joooos"
Posted by: PlanetDan   2006-01-03 09:35  

#7  In the southern town of Rafah, police stormed a government building to protest against the growing lawlessness.

Muslim logic. I must be missing something. Kind of like burning cars in france to make people like you.
Posted by: Slaviting Slolutle4367   2006-01-03 08:09  

#6  The amusing bit being the police complaining when we all know that they are double dipping, either belonging to one of the many terror factions or working after hours for their cousin, the Mafia sheikh. And being policemen, I would suspect they aren't high enough in their second organization to do anything but take orders... which no doubt they follow with typical Palestinian inefficiency.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-01-03 08:03  

#5  Police say their superiors won't let them take on powerful crime families? This calls for a movie or two:

Meet Gazam Al-Soprano

My Wiseguy Brother, Guidoazzam

The Sheikhfather
Posted by: The Happy Fliegerabwehrkanonen   2006-01-03 07:27  

#4  Excuse me, I mean...

It WAS the Occupation!!!!
Posted by: Danking70   2006-01-03 01:07  

#3  It's the Occupation!!!!!!!

Posted by: Danking70   2006-01-03 01:05  

#2  All those waterpipes are not filled with tabacco ya know...
Posted by: 3dc   2006-01-03 00:25  

#1  Sounds like they are smoking too much HASH and their brains went south for the winter.
Posted by: 3dc   2006-01-03 00:24  

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