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2 Palestinians Killed Attacking From Sea
edited for brevity.
Armed Palestinians in wetsuits and flippers emerged from the Mediterranean and fired toward a beachfront Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip, the army said Friday. Two attackers were killed and a third was wounded and fled.
Paleo-phibians?
No. Dead guys.
The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack on the Tel Katifa settlement in Gaza.
Such examples of tactical brilliance are seldom seen...
Hamas has threatened to carry out attacks on Israelis to avenge the assassination of its founder, Sheik Ahmed Yassin.
What're they gonna do next? Drive nails through their foreheads?
In a farewell video, two attackers posed in their wetsuits, with oxygen tanks strapped to their backs and goggles pulled above their foreheads. The video also contained footage of a training session in which two men charged toward a rocky cliff, firing assault rifles.
A rocky cliff firing assault rifles?
The settlement attack is the first of "earthshaking operations to come," a Hamas leaflet said.
Yeah, a real tsunami. You guys should concentrate on training more and running your sucks less if you want to be any good.
Thousands of Hamas supporters marched in the West Bank towns of Nablus and Ramallah on Friday, threatening revenge.
Were they wearing wetsuits and flippers, too?
In the Nablus, the protest was led by about 200 men in masks and military-style dress. At one point, they torched a large model of an Israeli bus and ran in a circle around it.
Chinese fire drill flambee?
In the nearby Balata refugee camp, a Palestinian militant was killed when a car he was driving exploded because allah hates morons. Palestinian security officials said the car carried explosives that apparently blew up prematurely.
No shit, ya think?
The blast which killed Ahmed al-Abed, of the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. In the Gaza attack, the assailants came ashore late Thursday. From the beach, they fired assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades toward the Israeli army post guarding the settlement, and soldiers returned fire.
Obviously the soldiers did better.
Ari Odes, a Tel Katifa resident, said he and his wife were driving toward the settlement when they heard shooting. Moments later, he saw the attacker on the road, aiming at the car, Odes told Israel Radio. "I pulled my head down and tried to aim the wheel so as to run him over but he jumped onto the shoulder of the road and I drove into the settlement," Odes said. "There was a second terrorist who shot massive fire at the gate of the settlement and the outpost." An Israeli army officer said the Israeli navy spotted three men swimming toward the beach and that two approached the settlement. A third man was wounded and footsteps indicated that he fled into the sea, said the officer, identified only as Lt. Ayelet. Soldiers found rocket-propelled grenade launchers, assault rifles and explosives on the beach, along with flippers. The military believes the attackers were trying to build a bomb on the beach for use in an attack on the settlement, she said.
Paleo-seals - swift, silent, incompetent.
Tensions have increased significantly since Israel assassinated Yassin on Monday. At the United Nations, the United States on Thursday vetoed a Security Council resolution that would have condemned Israel for the assassination. The U.S. ambassador complained that the text did not mention Hamas attacks against Israelis. The cause of the effect. Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat said the U.S. veto will be seen by Israel "as an encouragement to continue the path of violence, escalation, assassination and reoccupation."
Damn right.
At Friday noon prayers at Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site of about 3,035 other places that some so called prophet relieved himself at, the prayer leader harshly attacked the United States. "The United States is not the sponsor of peace, it is the sponsor of international terrorism, and this veto is a green light to continue the assassinations," said the cleric, Yousef Abu Sneineh.
More amusement from our little warriors in paleostine.
Posted by: Jarhead 2004-03-26
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