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| Middle East |
| Islamic Jihad will stop targeting civilians if Israel goes first... |
| 2002-10-24 |
| The head of the militant Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad said his movement could cease attacks on civilians if Israel does so as well. "If they (Israelis) are ready to stop killing (Palestinian) civilians and to stop the massacres they commit, we could revise our jihad policy targeting civilians or those presented as civilians" in Israel, Ramadan Abdullah Shallah told the Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat on Thursday. I don't particularly believe him, but if he's not speaking with forked tongue, that would be something of a turnaround for Islamojihad... "If they want this, they must take the initiative, but we are not going to beg them," he said, in an interview given shortly after a car bomb attack claimed by Islamic Jihad on a bus in northern Israel on Monday killed at least 13 people, plus the two bombers. "All in the Zionist entity are targeted, except children. For us, the whole entity is an entity of war that has raped our land," Shallah added. "We let al-Aqsa Brigades take care of killing the kiddies, and we're working on a deal where Hamas kills all the people between 12 and 40, and we get everybody older than that..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 This conflict could be done in a week if Joe Stalin were only available. |
| Posted by: flash 2002-10-25 12:34:28 |