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Two top Palestinian security chiefs resign
The civil war is cranking up. Popcorn, anyone?
Two top Palestinian security chiefs tendered their resignation to leader Yasser Arafat late Friday after three kidnappings took place in the Gaza Strip in the past 10 hours. Palestinian security sources said that Rashid Abu Shbak, chief of the Gaza Strip preventive security and Amin el-Hindi, chief ofthe Palestinian security intelligence services had resigned. "The situation has become intolerable after what happened in the day," said the officials in their resignation letter. Earlier in the day, three separate kidnapping incidents occurred in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian hard boyz militants abducted Gaza police chief Ghazi al-Jabali, Palestinian general security official Khaled Abu el-Olla, and four French citizens. The Gaza police chief and the four French were later released, but the security official was still being held.
"Mahmoud, you idiot! You don't kidnap Frenchmen!"
"Why not, Achmed? They're infidels!"
[slap] "They're the best friends we have! Let 'em go!"

Posted by: Steve White 2004-07-17
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=38331