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Mashaal: More soldiers will be kidnapped
Hamas plans to kidnap more IDF soldiers and the price for captive tank gunner Gilad Schalit will increase if Israel doesn't meet its demands for a prisoner swap, Damascus-based Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal warned on Monday.
Khaled won't do it himself, of course, but he'll cheer his boys on from the safety of Damascus ...
"Gilad will not be the only one," Mashaal said. "We will kidnap more soldiers, including officers. We will not free Schalit until [Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu gives in to our just demands.

"Israel is responsible for the failure in negotiations," Mashaal added, saying he had relayed a message to the German mediator: "If you come to the negotiations table again with Netanyahu's demands -- don't come, stay where you are."

Directing his remarks to the prime minister, Mashaal said: "We will not repeat our requests over and over. You know the list [of security prisoners demanded], and we will not change it."

The Hamas leader added, "We will not be flexible in our demands. As time goes by, our demands will grow, and so will the price. Israel is America's lackey, that wants to strengthen [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud] Abbas, and therefore is the real one to blame for the failure in negotiations."

Meanwhile, at the Labor faction meeting in the Knesset on Monday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak hinted that a military option existed for freeing Gilad.
For example, you could kill Khaled ...
Or maybe poison him, and refuse to supply the antidote unless Schalit is freed? Hmmm.
"We sent Gilad Schalit [to the Gaza border], and we must do everything possible to bring him home," Barak told the Labor MKs. "There are negotiations that must develop to create the possibility of his return, and there are other channels of action -- and it would be wrong to elaborate about them."

According to diplomatic sources, Israel has expressed a willingness to release about 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, including 450 names agreed upon with Hamas, in return for Schalit, on condition that more than 100 of these prisoners who are responsible for some 600 Israeli deaths are not allowed to return to the West Bank, but go either to the Gaza Strip or another country.

Israel is also refusing to release "mega terrorists" responsible for the worst atrocities over the past 20 years, including the attack at the Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing in Tel Aviv in 2001 (21 teenagers dead and 132 wounded), the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing in Jerusalem in 2001 (15 civilians dead and 130 wounded), and the Park Hotel massacre in Netanya on Seder night in 2002 (30 civilians killed and 140 wounded).
Lots of information about the March in Israel in this article, which I snipped, because the hand-wringing and breast-beating won't save Gilad. I'm a little disheartened that Mossad and IDF can't figure out where he is -- Gaza simply isn't that big.

Posted by: Steve White 2010-06-29
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=299890