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Qassam Brigades blame PA police for clashes
 The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas held the PA security responsible for the latest incidents in Gaza and accused the PA interior ministry of provoking discord in the Palestinian arena.
| "Yeah! It wuz them! It wudn't us!" |
According to Hamas, PA police tried to arrest Muhammad al-Rantisi, the son of late Abdel-Aziz al-Rantisi, people tried to prevent the police from arresting him and the police started firing at his car and at the people who gathered to prevent the arrest wounding many residents. Angered by police action the people attacked the police and stormed a number of police stations.
| "Hrarrrr! Kill them oppressors!" |
According to the PA interior ministry spokesman, the police arrived at the scene to resolve a dispute between two people who quarrelled over the use of a cash machine at the Palestine Bank.
"That's my dough!"
"Is not! I just took it out!"
"But I got a gun and you don't!" |
A Hamas member called other Hamas activists over the phone who clashed with the police using hand grenades an RPGâs killing one police officer and wounding 20 bystanders. The Qassam Brigades alleged in its statement on the events that there was a current [within the PA] that is trying to isolate Hamas and was pushing towards confrontations, but the statement hastened to add that the Qassam Brigades will remain faithful to the blood of martyrs and will not be drawn into internal conflict with the PA and that its weapons will always be pointed at the Zionist enemy.
| "But there ain't nobody screws with us! 'Cuz we got turbans and guns!" |
Posted by: Fred 2005-10-03 |
