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Gunmen storm Palestinian PM's office |
2006-04-14 |
RAMALLAH: Masked gunmen from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades on Thursday briefly occupied the Palestinian prime minister's West Bank offices to demand benefits from the cash-strapped Hamas government. Around two dozen militants forced their way into the downtown building in the middle of a video-conference linking senior civil servants based in the West Bank town with their counterparts in Gaza City, while storming the transport ministry at the same time, security sources and witnesses told AFP. Although Ramallah serves as the administrative capital of the Palestinian Authority, new prime minister Ismail Haniya has had to operate out of Gaza as a result of travel restrictions imposed on the new Hamas-led administration. |
Posted by:Fred |
#9 Thanks, TW2412. |
Posted by: Seafarious 2006-04-14 13:27 |
#8 It's time to add "Palestinian democracy" to my list of personal oxymorons. It may well even top my all-time best one, "Arab unity." |
Posted by: Zenster 2006-04-14 12:54 |
#7 I'll remember this story when the Palis continue their whining about how we don't support their new "democracy". |
Posted by: tu3031 2006-04-14 12:21 |
#6 We want taxi licenses! And free health care! And a pony! |
Posted by: Gunmen 2006-04-14 12:18 |
#5 Sorry, here's the link to the report: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060413/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians_2 |
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-04-14 10:26 |
#4 Seafarious, it's not free cab fare, but free taxi licenses. The deal has always been the gunnies get several hundred taxi licenses each that they sell for a couple of thousand bucks each. It's the perks they're demanding. The ones they are used to and to which they are entitled. |
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-04-14 10:23 |
#3 Cowards. If they actually believe their murderous cult is "Allah's will", why do they cover their faces? Won't Allah protect them? |
Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-04-14 09:56 |
#2 According to Khaleej Times the gunnies stormed the Transport Ministry to demand resumption of free cab fare for the widows/kiddies of suicide bombers... |
Posted by: Seafarious 2006-04-14 08:47 |
#1 "YAR! We want our MTV!" |
Posted by: mojo 2006-04-14 00:32 |