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2004-03-28 Israel-Palestine
Hamas Plots Knockout Blow with 800 Suicide Bombers
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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-03-28 00:25|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 
Hamas Plots Knockout Blow with 800 Suicide Bombers
It'll never happen. They can't count that high.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-03-28 12:35:57 AM||   2004-03-28 12:35:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll see your 800 suicide bombers, and raise you 10 B-1 bombers...
Posted by mojo  2004-03-28 12:43:43 AM||   2004-03-28 12:43:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, there could be a knockout blow - but I'm not sure it'll be the Israelis who are knocked out.

What happens if it's Iraq/Israel?

Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-03-28 1:03:23 AM||   2004-03-28 1:03:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd have a guess at maybe 8 or 9 at once but 8oo is just pure islamoid fantasy,dumb paloes
Posted by Shep UK 2004-03-28 3:07:27 AM||   2004-03-28 3:07:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I agree, I'm under the distinct impression that even fielding 8 or 9 splody-dopes would be a huge challenge for the paleo's at this moment.
Posted by Evert Visser in NL  2004-03-28 4:59:29 AM|| [http://chinditz.buzznet.com/user/]  2004-03-28 4:59:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Hamas alone in Gaza might only support 7 or eight splody dopes. But what would the impact (sic) of coordinating several dozen to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Rome, London, New York, Sydney, Washington.....

How would we respond?
Posted by john  2004-03-28 6:52:38 AM||   2004-03-28 6:52:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 hmmmm... I notice Paris and Madrid aren't on your list, John.....
Posted by Frank G  2004-03-28 7:26:58 AM||   2004-03-28 7:26:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 several dozen to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Rome, London, New York, Sydney, Washington.....

Excepting Rome and possibly London, they would be very unlikely to get through. Terrorists gravitate to soft targets. The soft targets are in continental Europe as Madrid found out. So your list should be Paris, Brussels, Rome, a Scandinavian city and Madrid again just to make sure the message comes through loud and clear.
Posted by phil_b 2004-03-28 8:40:49 AM||   2004-03-28 8:40:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 If they do try 800 suicide bombers it would weed out Hamas livestock. They would run out of suicidal members to work with.
Posted by Charles  2004-03-28 8:44:40 AM||   2004-03-28 8:44:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Frank G.

I'll bet it's Barcelona..... It would reenforce the A/Q hold over the Socialist Gov. The Stockholm effect needs more than one demonstration of it's power over the victim to be efficient. After the attack beseech the Spanish gov. to break off contact with Israel.


Posted by Shipman 2004-03-28 10:01:22 AM||   2004-03-28 10:01:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 My point was not to suggest specific city targets. I agree with the comments that Hamas alone does not have sufficient resources to field 8 or 80 bombers much less 800 at this time.

But in coordination with other Al Qaida cells, they could stage a worldwide bombfest at specific targets in America, Europe and Asia to push public opinion with a message: punish Israel and Bush and we'll go away. Message worked in Spain already. (For that very reason they would avoid Spain.)

We do have a 6-11 coming up....
Posted by john  2004-03-28 11:12:24 AM||   2004-03-28 11:12:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Al Qaeda has been knocked back on its heels over the passed several years. The Madrid bombing was spectacular but not as spectacular as it could have been prior to 911. It is altogether possible that Hamas may well start sending some of their folks to Eurostan, and could well send 800 of them, but I would think mounting a bombing campaign of any size or corrdination is going to get tougher and tougher, epscially since 311; even in Europe.

I think that Al Qaeda is running out of tricks, resources, and willing volunteers and they are going to increasingly start shitting in their own pool as they have in Iraq, Turkey and Spain.
Posted by badanov  2004-03-28 12:01:51 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org]  2004-03-28 12:01:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 This is Hamas propaganda. But if they do a poor man's Cecil B DeMille boomer production, they will have lost the restraint of Israel and any country may have left in limiting collateral damage in precision strikes on Hamas leadership. They do not realize that they will be squashed like bugs. It is only the humanity of Israelis that keeps them alive now. Bloody morons.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-03-28 12:14:52 PM||   2004-03-28 12:14:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Typical Hamas-pussy rhetoric...call on 15 or 11 year old boys to commit homicide.
Posted by anymouse  2004-03-28 6:08:10 PM||   2004-03-28 6:08:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Two words come to mind...
"work accidents".
Posted by tu3031 2004-03-28 6:40:32 PM||   2004-03-28 6:40:32 PM|| Front Page Top

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