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Palestinian group threatens to kill Hamas leaders
Looks like they're goin to the mattresses...GAZA (Reuters) - Fatah gunmen threatened on Tuesday to kill leaders of the governing Hamas group, escalating a power struggle marked by the worst internal violence in Gaza and the West Bank since the Palestinian Authority was created in 1994. Because this...is the business...we've CHOSEN... Twelve Palestinians have been killed and more than 100 wounded in two days of clashes in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank between the Fatah faction of President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas. Scorecard! Get ya scorecard here! Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of Fatah, said it held Hamas's Damascus-based political chief Khaled Meshaal, Interior Minister Saeed Seyam and senior Interior Ministry official Youssef al-Zahar responsible for the deaths."We in al-Aqsa announce, with all might and frankness, the ruling of the people in the homeland and in the diaspora, to execute the head of the sedition, Khaled Meshaal, Saeed Seyam and Youssef al-Zahar, and we will execute this ruling so those filthy people can be made an example," a statement said. Grrrrrr! Woof! Seeeeeethe! Death to...somebody! Abbas has been locked in an increasingly bitter power struggle with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas over stalled efforts to form a unity government. C'mon, Ismail. Blood's bad for business. Haniyeh, repeating a call for an end to internal violence and a return to talks on a unity government, accused the US of trying to "divide and rule." He urged Arab and Muslim nations "not to be dragged into following the interests and plans" of the U.S. administration. Oh, yeah, Condi's in town. Hopefully, somebody bought her a scorecard. Hamas, which advocates Israel's destruction, defeated Fatah in elections in January. The victory led to a cut-off of Western aid to the Palestinian Authority and deep economic crisis in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank. Elections? We got guns! We doan need no steenkin elections!!! Responding to al-Aqsa's threat against his life, Zahar said it was not representative of the group but the work of "coup seekers who want to achieve what the Occupation (Israel) failed to do -- liquidate Islamists serving the homeland." I knew if the Israeli's gave them enough time that they'd end up eating their own... Hamas legislator Mushir al-Masri said Hamas would "not show mercy" if any of its top officials were targeted. We'll show youze guys! A spokesman for al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Gaza declined to say whether the statement, sent to Reuters, represented the views of the entire group or certain factions. He described the threat as a "natural response" after Seyam ordered his forces to take to the streets of Gaza on Sunday to confront striking policemen demanding overdue salaries. We always threaten to kill people after...anything. It's just "our way"... Clashes between Hamas and Fatah forces quickly erupted and spread in the most serious Palestinian violence since the Palestinian Authority was set up to oversee limited self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza under interim peace accords with Israel. Tension has been fueled by the government's inability to pay full salaries to its workers, many of them from Fatah, as a result of the Western aid embargo designed to push Hamas to recognize Israel, renounce violence and abide by interim deals. Unpaid hacks with guns leads to no good...film at eleven... Some Fatah leaders have accused Syria, which sponsored an armed rebellion by Palestinian dissidents against then Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat in 1983 in Lebanon, of encouraging Hamas to resist any calls to bend. Yeah. Zippy says you Hamas guy's don't have to take that shit! Curse their mother's mustaches! A top aide to Abbas said on Monday the president was seriously considering the possibility of forming an emergency government, an administration of technocrats or calling early elections to end the crisis with Hamas. Or maybe hitting those secret bank accounts and flying off to Aruba and setting up there. In a separate incident on Tuesday, an Israeli air strike destroyed a metal foundry in the southern Gaza Strip, killing one Palestinian and wounding another, medical staff and residents said. Another tough night in the "metal district"... An Israeli army spokesman said the air strike was aimed at a suspected weapons factory. Israel has frequently targeted buildings it believes are used by militants to make or store rockets. Notify Mutual of Gaza... Posted by: tu3031 2006-10-03 |
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