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FOLLOWUP to the previous story. Adds detail...
al-Reuters. Watch for spin. Edited for Digression
A Palestinian teenage suicide bomber blew up near Israeli forces in the West Bank on Monday, killing no one but himself, hours after the militant group Hamas ruled out ceasing all attacks on Israelis under any future truce deal.
Finally coming clean, in other words
Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said security forces, acting on information about a planned suicide bombing inside Israel, raided the village of Azoun near the town of Qalqilya. "The suicide bomber blew himself up next to an armored army vehicle and we have one slightly wounded soldier," Mofaz said in broadcast remarks.
"And who's gonna clean that mess off the track?"
Relatives identified the Palestinian as Sabi Abu Saoud, 17, from the West Bank city of Nablus and said he was a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, linked to the Fatah movement.
All of 17 years old? Did his Mom and Dad have to sign a permission slip for him to join up?
Earlier on Monday, Hamas chief spokesman Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi set out his conditions ahead of a possible dialogue with Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei on reining in violence threatening a U.S.-backed "road map" to peace.
A road map that didn’t take all the pitfalls into account.
Rantissi said the radical Islamic group could discuss halting its suicide bombings inside Israel, while still targeting soldiers and Jewish settlers on occupied land in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Excuse me? How can you be occupiers in your own land?
Such a condition would be unacceptable to Israel, which regards attacks on settlers and soldiers as terrorism.
For the same reason we regard the sun to be a star.
"The issue that will be possible to be addressed (with the Palestinian Authority) is continuing the resistance to the occupation while avoiding civilian casualties," Rantissi told Reuters at a Gaza Strip safe house.
just before his lips fell off
Personally, I think he's possessed by demons and djinns and efrits and possibly a calliope...
"But if the enemy (Israel) does not accept, then resistance will continue comprehensively," he said.
"But we’d do that whatever."
Hamas, sworn to the destruction of the Jewish state, does not regard the 250,000 settlers living on land Israel occupied in the 1967 Middle East war as non-combatants. International human rights groups consider the settlers to be civilians.
For the same reason we consider the Earth to be a planet.
Posted by: Atrus 2003-11-03
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