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2004-03-24 Israel-Palestine

Hamas Chief Backs Off Threats Against U.S.

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Posted by Fred 2004-03-24 7:38:13 AM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "It issued a statement saying America's backing of Israel made the assassination possible."

Sounds like someone gave him a clue: if he wants to find out first-hand what real American backing of an assassination looks like, just keep threatening us.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-3-24 7:56:22 AM|| 2004-3-24 7:56:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Hamas musta shit their collective pants when Dubya said he would take all terrorism seriously.

Dave D: Fuck 'em. They issued a threat. Doesn't matter to me if they stop threatening or not.

Hamas is in the crosshairs.

If Islamists' past history is any indicator, there are already plans in the works for attacks from these folks. It is time to hit Hamas and put these folks out of our misery.

Posted by badanov 2004-3-24 8:14:29 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-3-24 8:14:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Buck-buck-braaawwwk!

Posted by Mike 2004-3-24 8:54:48 AM|| 2004-3-24 8:54:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Yup - youse guys are right - too late, RantSissy. You're a deader and oh sooo deserving! Eat a Mav, mofo.

Posted by .com 2004-3-24 8:58:20 AM|| 2004-3-24 8:58:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Believe me, Badanov, it don't matter to me, either. Hamas is dead meat, and I suspect at this point the only reason we don't go in there ourselves and clear them out is that Israel, having decided the job needs doing, is more than capable of doing it itself.

Looks to me like the Israelis have decided, en masse, to give up any hope that there will be any "negotiated settlement" that's worth a crap, and to act accordingly.

And so, it appears, have we. It's about time.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-3-24 9:55:15 AM|| 2004-3-24 9:55:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Rantsissy (lol) has no plans to attack American targets. Oh.. that's nice. Does your 2nd in command feel the same way? Could you tell us who that would be, please??

Posted by B 2004-3-24 9:58:18 AM|| 2004-3-24 9:58:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Bwahahahahahaha:
"17:02 U.K. orders Bank of England to freeze assets of five senior Hamas members, including new leader Rantisi"
From Haaretz-flash

Posted by Evert Visser in NL 2004-3-24 10:16:49 AM|| 2004-3-24 10:16:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 "UK Chancellor of Exchequer Brown announces assets frozen for five senior Hamas members, calls on rest of Europe to follow suit. Brown heads international task force on terror financing."

And the Debka-Files

Posted by Evert Visser in NL 2004-3-24 10:19:03 AM|| [http://chinditz.buzznet.com/user/] 2004-3-24 10:19:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Woot! Woot! That's both welcome and extraordinary news, EV! Very cool... Thx, UK! wish they would do this to every known terrorist asshole in the world. Yesterday. RantSissy's beyond obvious, so even the timid can follow suit.

Thx for the post, EV! All this good news is, uh, unusual!

Posted by .com 2004-3-24 10:24:19 AM|| 2004-3-24 10:24:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 i read this to say that they will let the other groups attack the US - but indications are that they are encouraging those groups to do so.

Posted by rkb 2004-3-24 11:32:51 AM|| 2004-3-24 11:32:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 It really doesn't matter what they say. Does anyone believe them? They'll hit any target they can. Reasons? We don't need not stinking reasons!

Posted by Spot 2004-03-24 2:08:04 PM|| 2004-03-24 2:08:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I wonder: would Rantisi like to see a Tomahawk up close? As in sailing through his front door?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-03-24 2:33:03 PM|| 2004-03-24 2:33:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 the 'no American assissination' policy may have came from Damascus where the 'political' leader of Hamas has his 'office'

Posted by mhw 2004-03-24 4:12:53 PM|| 2004-03-24 4:12:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Debka speculates theyre divided on this. In fact Debka implies that creating divisions within Hamas was largely the reason for offing Yassin in the first place. Sounds reasonable to me.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-03-24 5:03:37 PM|| 2004-03-24 5:03:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 LH, I can follow that lin of reasoning.

Posted by Evert Visser in NL 2004-03-24 5:42:35 PM|| [http://chinditz.buzznet.com/user/] 2004-03-24 5:42:35 PM|| Front Page Top

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