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2004-04-17 Israel-Palestine
Rantissi helizapped
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Posted by Lux 2004-04-17 1:50:21 PM|| || Front Page|| [11146 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Sweeeeeeeet!

Cracking open a beer to celebrate.
Posted by Evert Viser in NL  2004-04-17 1:56:41 PM|| [http://chinditz.buzznet.com/user/?img=4&id=179024]  2004-04-17 1:56:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 If he's left blind and cripple, we could perhaps tell Hamas that we've given them back Yassin since they were so upset over his killing.
Posted by Aris Katsaris  2004-04-17 2:10:02 PM||   2004-04-17 2:10:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 He's now officially collected his toe tag.

Who's next in line for this choice job?
Posted by Lux 2004-04-17 2:15:08 PM||   2004-04-17 2:15:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Aris, that's damn funny!
Posted by Raj 2004-04-17 2:20:45 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com]  2004-04-17 2:20:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 According to Debka Rantissi is doing the dirtnap.
Posted by Evert Viser in NL  2004-04-17 2:23:34 PM|| [http://chinditz.buzznet.com/user/?img=4&id=179024]  2004-04-17 2:23:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 PizzaIDF.Org
Posted by Evert Viser in NL  2004-04-17 2:24:43 PM|| [http://chinditz.buzznet.com/user/?img=4&id=179024]  2004-04-17 2:24:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 " Extra crispy arm of Rantisi for sale! Look great over fireplace! "
Posted by Charles  2004-04-17 2:33:16 PM||   2004-04-17 2:33:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The Pediatrician of Death gets his just reward. Sayonara, doc...
Posted by Seafarious  2004-04-17 2:38:26 PM||   2004-04-17 2:38:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Haaaalleluhah! Haaaalleluhah! Hallelulah, Halleluhah, Hal-yeh-lu-yah!

No beer for me; been keeping an Aussie wine chilling for the occasion. :-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-04-17 2:40:31 PM||   2004-04-17 2:40:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Where's the fat lady?
Posted by A 2004-04-17 2:42:50 PM||   2004-04-17 2:42:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Fat lady? What fat lady? You mean the FLAT lady, St. Pancake? She's probably greeting Rantisi in hell, at this very moment.
Posted by Dave D.  2004-04-17 2:45:29 PM||   2004-04-17 2:45:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Yes! We want the Fat Lady!
Posted by Evert Viser in NL  2004-04-17 2:46:35 PM|| [http://chinditz.buzznet.com/user/?img=4&id=179024]  2004-04-17 2:46:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 U-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu!!!!!!!!!

Aris: LOL, one of the funniest things I've seen from you!

Fred, bring out the Fat Lady!
Posted by Steve White  2004-04-17 2:48:49 PM||   2004-04-17 2:48:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Doing the lawn limbo... pushing up Miss Daisy...shopping at the mahogany mini-mall (from an old Johnny Carson skit) and a favorite:
"sucking bitter grass from the root end" from Stephen Hunter's novel "Hot Springs"
Posted by bkrog 2004-04-17 2:54:01 PM||   2004-04-17 2:54:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Tonight I raise a glass of white wine in celebration to the IDF and the pilot who just saved countless civilians' lives.

Yassin? Check!

Rantissi? Check!

Gee, I wonder who's next?
Posted by badanov  2004-04-17 2:54:49 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org]  2004-04-17 2:54:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 ditta-dump-dump-dump-dump
another one bites the dust...

Yasser Arafat, please call your office. Yasser.
Posted by eLarson 2004-04-17 3:12:09 PM||   2004-04-17 3:12:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 A toast to the brave pilots of the IAF! They deserve better, but Bud will have to do.

Link
Posted by Parabellum  2004-04-17 3:24:15 PM||   2004-04-17 3:24:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Another delivery to Hell, courtesy of the IDF.
Posted by Laurence of the Rats  2004-04-17 3:29:26 PM||   2004-04-17 3:29:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 And the Jeopardy category is: "Hamas -- not Hummus -- cold on a slab"
Question: Who's next?
Answers: Who is Khaled Mischal? OR Who is Marzook? Either answer will ring the bell.
I couldn't be happier. I will NEVER forget the night of 9/11/01 watching those so called helpless Palestinians celebrate and parade at our expense. Kill em all. Let God sort them out.
Posted by TerrorHunter4Ever 2004-04-17 3:30:49 PM||   2004-04-17 3:30:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 I was driving into work this morning, when on the news I heard a bunch of shouting and yelling, and instantly I thought "car swarm." Then they mentioned Rantissi's name. One suicide bomber, one leader. Wonder how the Arafish is doing in Ramallah? He eventually may be the last one standing, so he can witness the utter destruction of what he started decades ago. The Paleos just do not get it.

Another grease spot on the L&N.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-04-17 3:37:10 PM||   2004-04-17 3:37:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 We now bring you your weekend Car swarm.
Posted by eLarson 2004-04-17 3:38:50 PM||   2004-04-17 3:38:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 And the Fat Lady is up...
Posted by Fred  2004-04-17 3:40:46 PM||   2004-04-17 3:40:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#23  Pretty high turnover in that job.........
Posted by debbie 2004-04-17 3:41:23 PM||   2004-04-17 3:41:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 wow this is just superb news! getting ready for the full on 'Carnival of Death' thats sure to come,already seen the animals passing round the bloodied shreds of Rantissi previously white 'cloak' and wiping and smothering each other in his skanky infected blood,seems the palo's baught the kids out too looking at the t.v images,most people try and avoid that thing,most parents take thier kids to the park or the circus or maybe the fair if thier lucky,these kids get a real treat - a night out down at the car swarm,warning gratuitious gun sex. Someone should by a burger van and set it up whenever a Terrazoid gets wiped out, they'd make a fortune from refreshing the thristy and hungry hoards of seething Binny wannabes. Anyway truly a great day in the war on Scum. :)
Posted by Shep UK 2004-04-17 3:43:31 PM||   2004-04-17 3:43:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 Thank you Fred.

Erekat is now on CNN calling for negociations, definetly scared shitless.
Posted by Evert Viser in NL  2004-04-17 3:44:41 PM|| [http://chinditz.buzznet.com/user/?img=4&id=179024]  2004-04-17 3:44:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 Just posted about it here.
Posted by Edward Yee  2004-04-17 3:49:40 PM|| [http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]  2004-04-17 3:49:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 ... come down all over with the rigor mortis... to fight no more forever... dearly departed... will be missed his his Mom and his dog, Rover...

Boy, this champagne is good. Wonder why they don't charge more for it?
Posted by Fred  2004-04-17 3:57:27 PM||   2004-04-17 3:57:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 Forgot Room Temperature
Posted by David 2004-04-17 3:58:35 PM||   2004-04-17 3:58:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 "We will all die one day. Nothing will change. If by Apache or by cardiac arrest, I prefer Apache," [Rantissi] said.

Ask, and ye shall receive... Warm enough for ya?
Posted by Dar  2004-04-17 4:05:14 PM||   2004-04-17 4:05:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 Hey Fred, could you fix the long URL in #17? (Page breaks.) Thanx...
Posted by Old Grouch  2004-04-17 4:11:33 PM||   2004-04-17 4:11:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#31 Fixed...

... cold and still... his voice silenced and the rest of him with it... cured of that nagging cough... a resident of the boneyard...
Posted by Fred  2004-04-17 4:17:26 PM||   2004-04-17 4:17:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#32 ....no longer bearing the whips and scorns of time...joined the choire invisible...passed his sell-by date...on his way to the undiscovered country...
Posted by Evert Viser in NL  2004-04-17 4:23:36 PM|| [http://chinditz.buzznet.com/user/?img=4&id=179024]  2004-04-17 4:23:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#33 Ding dong! The bastard's dead!
And he was so going to make the IDF pay for getting Yassin!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
"Live by the jihad, die by the jihad,"
Now let's go over to Ramallah and cut the head off the chicken.
Posted by Jen  2004-04-17 4:24:20 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com]  2004-04-17 4:24:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#34 ...He is dead Jim...followed the trail of the dodo...crossed the Styx...dances with worms...
Posted by Evert Viser in NL  2004-04-17 4:27:32 PM|| [http://chinditz.buzznet.com/user/?img=4&id=179024]  2004-04-17 4:27:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#35 Erekat is now on CNN calling for negotiations, definetly scared shitless.

Ah, yes, negotiations. Erekat has such a strong hand.

"OK everyone, ante up for the next hand of 5-card stud."

"Erekat, how many cards do you want?"
"Five, please, your excellency."
"Here ya go, 'kat. Wanna raise the bet?"
"No, thank you, your excellency."
"OK, any more bets? I call."
"Um, your excellency...."
"yes, 'kat. Uh, you look kinda pale and sick, you ok?"
"Um, er, ah, please, your excellency. Could I get another five cards?"
"Sorry 'kat. Call or fold."


Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-04-17 4:43:59 PM||   2004-04-17 4:43:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#36 ...pining for the fjords.
Posted by Scott  2004-04-17 4:49:06 PM|| [http://tacoflavoredkisses.com/tfkblog/]  2004-04-17 4:49:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#37 ... gonna wake up dead tomorrow... laid out... slabbed... used up his supply of birthdays... doesn't snore anymore...
Posted by Fred  2004-04-17 4:51:10 PM||   2004-04-17 4:51:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#38 AP - is Saeb playing poker with the dogs? LOL. I heard this on the radio comingback from shopping and people are looking at me weird ululating alone in my truck.... if it quits raining I'll hand out sweets to the neighborhood kids. Now, who's next? Saeb? Yasshole? IJ? short straw anyone?
Posted by Frank G  2004-04-17 5:01:39 PM||   2004-04-17 5:01:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#39 New job as fertilizer...Earthworm housing development...Playing poker with the devil...No more family pictures...
Posted by Charles  2004-04-17 5:02:05 PM||   2004-04-17 5:02:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#40 Another fine performance by our IDF buddies! Either they're getting better, or the Palestinians are getting dumber, given the fact that they didn't hit anyone other than the bastard, his bastard, and a bodyguard. Allah's put up a "Help Wanted" sign, but warned it's a temporary position . . .
Posted by The Doctor 2004-04-17 5:22:15 PM||   2004-04-17 5:22:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#41 Newsflash:

00:03 Al Jazeera television: Explosions heard throughout Gaza City

Maybe some more festivities commencing?
Posted by Evert Viser in NL  2004-04-17 5:30:13 PM|| [http://chinditz.buzznet.com/user/?img=4&id=179024]  2004-04-17 5:30:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#42 As near as I can tell, with Hamas and Hezbollah operatives making dozens of attacks a day on our soldiers in Iraq, we just lost all incentive to tell Israel to sit there and suffer through the suicide bombings without doing anything.
Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-04-17 5:44:18 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]  2004-04-17 5:44:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#43 Rantisi is Hamas top leader in Gaza and one of the most hard-line members of the militant movement who rejects all compromise with Israel and calls for the destruction of the Jewish state.
I believe the proper tense is:was, rejected and called. Alas, poor Abdel we knew him well....
Posted by GK 2004-04-17 5:54:42 PM||   2004-04-17 5:54:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#44 Wait until someone bombs the Bushehr reactor and other processing sites in Iran, which I am sure is coming up in the next couple of months. It will be like hitting a hornets nest with a 2x4. Only thing there will be no hornet's nest left.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-04-17 5:55:36 PM||   2004-04-17 5:55:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#45 I was going to rebuke the assembled multitudes of Rantburg for this unseemly display of bloodthirsty gloating, then I remembered the unalloyed joy with which LLL terror-tools respond to the deaths of Americans in Iraq.
Therefore, Halle-fuckin'-jujah! Roast in pieces, jihadi scum! Screw 'im!
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-04-17 6:13:54 PM||   2004-04-17 6:13:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#46 "I'm the maaaaaan in the pine box!"
Posted by Raj 2004-04-17 6:17:27 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com]  2004-04-17 6:17:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#47 Serious question, so no funny cracks. How many virgins does Allah have to provide Rantisi (assuming he's married)
28 or 72?
Do you get extra for being a head honcho?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Posted by tipper 2004-04-17 6:30:30 PM||   2004-04-17 6:30:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#48 I wanna know if that was a Toyota.
Posted by Anonymous4279 2004-04-17 6:41:43 PM||   2004-04-17 6:41:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#49 A4729---it was a celica turcica
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-04-17 6:49:17 PM||   2004-04-17 6:49:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#50 "There Zionist won't dare kill me!"
-Rantisi, about two weeks ago!
ROT IN HELL YOU ISLAMOFACISTS TURD!
Posted by Cyber Sarge  2004-04-17 7:19:11 PM||   2004-04-17 7:19:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#51 I just can't imagine what this website will be like when Arafat gets his. I hope to find out very soon.
Posted by Tom 2004-04-17 7:22:35 PM||   2004-04-17 7:22:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#52 #30 Hey Fred, could you fix the long URL in #17?

Sorry guys, but the 'add a link' deal always added the Rantburg URL to the IAF URL I pasted into the User Prompt Box. Dunno why, it's worked fine before. I tried typing in the raw HTML a few times and that didn't work either. What I typed into the comment text input box was not what showed up in the comment (and I'm talking like 4-5 tries here). So I just pasted the URL in. It looked ok on my monitor, so I clicked "Publish".

Old Grouch, are you using a Sinclair or an Apple II? { ;^)
Posted by Parabellum  2004-04-17 8:04:07 PM||   2004-04-17 8:04:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#53 Tits up!
Posted by 11A5S 2004-04-17 8:08:38 PM||   2004-04-17 8:08:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#54 I just can't imagine what this website will be like when Arafat gets his.

Rantburg Thread SwarmTM!
Posted by Raj 2004-04-17 8:09:16 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com]  2004-04-17 8:09:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#55 Serious question: What is the purpose of the car swarm and wanting to their hand in the blood?
Posted by Scott  2004-04-17 8:13:36 PM|| [http://tacoflavoredkisses.com/tfkblog/]  2004-04-17 8:13:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#56 Slotted. Slucked, timely death, he's buying a round in hell and there's nothing to buy. Ulllu lululullluu, made my day and my night.
Posted by Rhodesiafever  2004-04-17 8:28:06 PM||   2004-04-17 8:28:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#57 Scott, I'm not an expert on this, but its related to the whole martyrdom thing. Martyrs are holy and touching a piece of them brings blessings. In the West you have to go back to the time of Christian saints and keeping their bones etc.

I've thought a lot about this recently and to a degree all religions are death cults but in the West we left this phase over 500 years ago.
Posted by Phil B  2004-04-17 8:33:41 PM||   2004-04-17 8:33:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#58 Serious answer: I have always guessed that it has a lot in common with the medieval fascination with saints' relics (body parts, bones, hair, etc.). The "reasoning" must go something like this:

* A martyr receives automatic forgiveness of all sins and goes straight to heaven. The martyr is sanctified.
* Therefore any body part of the martyr is also sanctified.
* If I have a piece of a martyr, maybe some of the sacredness will rub off on me.

It's purely magical reasoning and hard for the modern mind to grasp, but it seems to be a widespread mode of thought at a certain level of cultural development.
Posted by 11A5S 2004-04-17 8:34:26 PM||   2004-04-17 8:34:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#59 So in their selfish search for a 'get into paradise free card' they desecrate the body of the martyr they pretend to claim to revere. Very nice.
Posted by Scott  2004-04-17 8:49:14 PM|| [http://tacoflavoredkisses.com/tfkblog/]  2004-04-17 8:49:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#60 How about: they belong to a death cult society that worships martyrs, so in their sick f*&king desire to prove their willingness they dip into teh remains?

Or, more likely - it could be a sick way to piggyback on someone else's martyrdom, a la Jesse Jackson running up from the ground floor to smear Martin Luther King's blood on his t-shirt to try and insinuate he was at the bigman's side when he was shot?
Posted by Frank G  2004-04-17 9:16:45 PM||   2004-04-17 9:16:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#61 I'll go with piggyback on someone else's martyrdom for $200 Frank. If they wanted to prove their willingness to be martyrs they wouldn't be sending school children through checkpoints. This smacks of a sick publicity stunt. I get the feeling that every time there is a car swarm, a Euro-weenie writes a check to Arafish.
Posted by Scott  2004-04-17 9:51:08 PM|| [http://tacoflavoredkisses.com/tfkblog/]  2004-04-17 9:51:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#62 AP - "it was a celica turcica"

Aha! Just as I thought! And this is not the first time, either! I find this outrageous persecution of Toyotas by the IDF to be reprehensible! Something must be done to protect Toyotas immediately!
Posted by Anonymous4279 2004-04-17 9:59:41 PM||   2004-04-17 9:59:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#63 Well, Rantissi. Enjoy your 72 virgins. I hear they're all H'nemthe.
Posted by Korora  2004-04-17 10:02:13 PM|| [http://basementburrow.blogspot.com]  2004-04-17 10:02:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#64 How does Hamas prevent assassinations? JPost:

"Hamas chief Khaled Mashal has told the Gaza Hamas to keep the name of their new leader a secret."

LOL
Posted by Frank G  2004-04-17 10:15:49 PM||   2004-04-17 10:15:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#65 Maybe they'll just call him Fearless Leader?
Posted by Fred  2004-04-17 10:34:54 PM||   2004-04-17 10:34:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#66 maybe the cause=> effect thing is becoming apparent to the Paleos, although they have the wrong parties still:

"We condemn in strongest possible terms this Israeli crime of assassinating Dr. Rantisi. This is state terror, and the Israeli government is fully responsible for the consequences of this action," Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat said. "


well every trip has to start with the first step?
Posted by Frank G  2004-04-17 10:57:09 PM||   2004-04-17 10:57:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#67 From the WoT Futuring section:
Event: Rantissi gets sent to Hell.
Group: IDF or IAF
Narrative: The IDF or IAF executes Rantissi like they did Yassin.
Window: 11 Months (3/24/2005)
Probability 87% entered by Steve from Relto on 3/24/2004
Overall opinion is Probable (87%)
Current opinion is Probable (87%)
Right on, Steve!
Posted by Korora  2004-04-17 11:55:46 PM|| [http://basementburrow.blogspot.com]  2004-04-17 11:55:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#68 Go camping and look what happens. I know it's late but for history..... I'ma on this thread.
Posted by Shipman 2004-04-18 5:46:52 PM||   2004-04-18 5:46:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#69 this is tweo day old but im starting think israyliens purdy good at this stuff.
Posted by muck4doo 2004-04-19 9:55:32 AM|| [http://www.lettuceladies.com/meet.html]  2004-04-19 9:55:32 AM|| Front Page Top

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