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Hamas Urges Iraqi Suicide Attacks on US-Led Forces
The militant Islamic groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad urged Iraqis on Friday to carry out suicide bombings against invading U.S. and British forces in Iraq. "Iraqis should prepare explosive belts and would-be martyrs (suicide bombers) to combat the U.S. occupiers," senior Hamas leader Abdel Aziz-al-Rantissi told Reuters in the Gaza Strip. "The American aggressors, the American invaders are now on Iraqi soil, therefore, Iraqis must confront them with all possible means, including martyrdom (suicide) operations."
"Yep. Yep. That's what you guys ought to do. You oughta kill yourselves..."
Professional Holy Man Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the group's spiritual leader, later echoed Rantissi's call for suicide attacks and urged the Iraqi people "to destroy every tank, to kill every soldier."
"Yup. Like Abdul Aziz said, you guys oughta kill yourselves. We'll be right behind you..."
The Islamic Jihad, another militant group that has carried out suicide bombings against Israelis, also took up the call. "We urge all fighters... to advance in their explosive belts toward the invading forces, to blow up their blessed bodies amid the new aggressive crusader forces," it said in a statement sent to Reuters in Beirut.
"You'll never be victorious unless you're flying meat!"
Thousands of Palestinians also voiced their anger over the U.S.-led war in Iraq by jumping up and down and making faces protesting across the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Some demonstrators urged Iraq to attack Tel Aviv — as it did, with Scud missiles, during the 1991 Gulf war.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-03-21
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