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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Gaza militants say fired chemical-tipped warhead
2006-06-29
Death Wish:2006. Starring The al-Aqsa Brigades...
GAZA (Reuters) - A spokesman for gunmen in the Gaza Strip said they had fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel early on Thursday.
"that does it. Bounce the rubble"
The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the claim by the spokesman from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement. The group had recently claimed to possess about 20 biological warheads for the makeshift rockets commonly fired from Gaza at Israeli towns. This was the first time the group had claimed firing such a rocket.
"Uncle Assad gave them to us"...followed by ass-puckering in Damascus
"The al-Aqsa Brigades have fired one rocket with a chemical warhead" at southern Israel, Abu Qusai, a spokesman for the group, said in Gaza. An Israeli military spokeswoman said the army had not detected that any such rocket was fired, nor was there any report of such a weapon hitting Israel.
I say take them at their word. Kill them
Posted by:Frank G and tu3031 and Tipper

#28  Like most news from this part of the world, what is said usually bears little resemblance to what happened. Nevertheless, the Paleos are incredibly stupid for saying this. It gives the IDF a hunting license to kill everybody that even looks like they have an AK-47 let alone a rocket.
Posted by: RWV   2006-06-29 22:53  

#27  Well, theres nothing like tweaking the tail of the tiger is there?

I'm really - really! - lost for words over this. I reiterate; insanity, utter insanity.
Posted by: Tony (UK)   2006-06-29 20:03  

#26  I disagree, TW. I'd trade our current Prez for you in a heartbeat.
Posted by: mac   2006-06-29 17:59  

#25  Kill us ... now. All of us want to die ... soon.

Yours Truly,

The Palestinians
Posted by: Zenster   2006-06-29 13:29  

#24  Maybe the arabs in the arab-occuppied terrorities can get some leftover Cyclon gas from the Germans; meanwhile Israel and the US should stop the waiting game for these new-age nazis from perfecting their weapons.
Posted by: SamAdamsky   2006-06-29 12:12  

#23  Unreliable Paleo rockets with old,unstable chem shells from Iraq would be enough for me to blast a hole in the border wall to escape to Egypt, too. With any luck, they'll destroy themselves and Israel won't have to fire a shot!
Posted by: Danielle   2006-06-29 11:52  

#22  It it fails, and we don't notice... isn't htat the greatest humiliation of all?

Is that some sort of Zen koan?

If a WMD lands in a forest ...
Posted by: Xbalanke   2006-06-29 11:48  

#21  Oh, and I think Israel should respond to the announcement as gospel truth. And plow and furrow Gaza until the particles are too small to pose a continued threat.

Which is why I'll never be put in charge of affairs military or political... as it should be.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-06-29 11:41  

#20  I've made the acquaintance of a small selection over the years, mhw. The ones who'd set up a table in the university student union the day I wandered through in 1979 were scary frightening when I talked briefly to them -- Daddy's tales didn't agree with their horror stories, and the members of the Palestinian students' group were not at all amenable to discussing alternate views of events. It was my first (and only, thus far) experience with people like that. Mr. Wife's Berlitz Arab tutor was here to study political science and administration so that he could go back and aid his people, he said, determined not to discuss things that would upset people here, for the duration -- in 1987 or '88; I assumed he and those friends we were introduced to were PLO proteges, who hoped to charm Mr. Wife into becoming their patron. And finally, one of Mr. Wife's bosses, some levels higher, whose aged parents had emigrated much earlier, and who never seemed much interested beyond all working together to grow the business. A charming man. I've a couple of Lebanese Christian friends, too, some recently come, some here for generations, who are effortlessly charming and hospitable, and have no interest in going back to the madness.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-06-29 11:36  

#19  Ahhh ... were it only true ...
Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden   2006-06-29 11:19  

#18  Gaza is not a Palestinian State, it's a rookery.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2006-06-29 10:27  

#17  I believe the IDF should .... take them at their word and respond in kind.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-06-29 10:02  

#16  Doesn't add up to me. If you've got to announce the fact you used a WMD you probably didn't.
Posted by: Intrinsicpilot   2006-06-29 10:01  

#15  I were the Palestinians I would avoid even thinking in using gasses on Israel. I really don't think Jews would show restraint in case someone attempted to gas them again.
Posted by: JFM   2006-06-29 10:01  

#14  
I take it you know a number of Paleo expats.


The people who expatriated were those who wanted to work instead of being fed by the UN. And unlike the camp Paleos they can't spend whole days nurturing their hate.


however, the 20 somethings seem to seeth with vengence.


Given the kind of education provided, with our money, by Palestinian schools it is no wonder. Given, what thy are fed by the education system and the MSM in Arab countries it is still less wonder. But the worst are probably the sons of the 40 year old expats living in the West, educated by the likes of Ward Churchill and watching the BBC and similar.
Posted by: JFM   2006-06-29 09:55  

#13  I've speculated for some time on the real likelihood that a WMD attack would not be noticed. The Aum made multiple attempts in Japan before 2 successful sarin attacks. There have been other attempts in other countries that were also unsuccessful. It it fails, and we don't notice... isn't htat the greatest humiliation of all?

It is unlikely that Saddam had warheads that would fit a Kassam rocket. Too small a delivery system. A bio weapon? Perhaps, ricin maybe? Rockets are not the best method for delivering biologicals, tends to burn them up.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins   2006-06-29 09:48  

#12  Are all bets not off when one uses a chem weapon?

Maybe, *if* there really was one and *if* it killed anyone. Otherwise Israel is left with the usual dilemna in asymmetrical warfare of how to respond "proportionately".
Posted by: lotp   2006-06-29 09:28  

#11  TWife

I take it you know a number of Paleo expats. So do I.

My experience is that when you talk with the (40+ years olds) you get the experience that they would support any reasonable compromise that would end the violence; however, the 20 somethings seem to seeth with vengence.

Is that your experience?
Posted by: mhw   2006-06-29 08:34  

#10  This is Darwinian in nature. These idiots don't deserve to remain in the collective gene pool. Does not a bio/chem attack not meet the rare criteria of warranting any including a nuclear response? Are all bets not off when one uses a chem weapon?
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-06-29 07:34  

#9  Most people there have relatives in the Palestinian Diaspora, twobyfour, who've anyway been sending money home. They have contacts if they want to leave -- the Palestinian territories have been bleeding population since 1948.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-06-29 07:19  

#8  You mean they may wish to rather die in fall, winter or spring? I guess there is some logic to it. ;-)
Posted by: twobyfour   2006-06-29 04:44  

#7  Hamas, Fatah : same scum, slightly different gang. Like the difference between the Crips and Bloods -- unnoticable to anyone who is not a part of it. Hopefully, the lack of electricity and water will start resulting in deaths, which will then lead to an upswing in actionable intelligence by those wishing not to die in the sweltering heat of a Middle Eastern summer.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2006-06-29 03:48  

#6  ima wulda spekted thisn more outta hamas then em fataahrs tho....
Posted by: muck4doo   2006-06-29 02:34  

#5  The hostage was murdered shortly after they adbucted him. Israeli intelligence in the West Bank is probably too good for them to hide anyone. Just this morning the Israelis have arrested 60 or so Hamas legislators there.

The coming days will show just how stupid and self-destructive the Palestinians are. They are running out of food and water in Gaza and there's no need for the Israelis to finger a single shot. If they want to die, let them perish slowly like idiots - I don't think the Israelis will be under any diplomatic pressure until their soldier is released.
Posted by: Apostate   2006-06-29 02:27  

#4  They probably think that as Saddam got away with it in GW1, that they'll be able to as well. But if I remember rightly, Saddam 'only' had HE warheads on his scuds, not chemical or bio, and the Israelis were being restrained by the US because of the possibilty of a wider conflict.

If these nutters have fired a chemical (gas) warhead into Israel, then they are quite simply, insane.
Posted by: Tony (UK)   2006-06-29 02:14  

#3  if troo, irak aynt gonna be nuthin kompairs to wats gonna happn. ima reely hopin this aynt troo.
Posted by: muck4doo   2006-06-29 01:23  

#2  And on top of that...just getting report that that one of the hostages has been executed. Bounce the rubble, then vaporize it.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2006-06-29 01:19  

#1  Well, they've got the "martyrs" part right.
Posted by: Ularong Sloluling4308   2006-06-29 00:22  

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