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| Middle East |
| Titi and pals have traditional funeral |
| 2002-05-23 |
| A Palestinian radical group held a traditional funeral for three of its gunnies killed by Israeli tank fire. The three men were buried in a single tomb at the site where they died in Balata refugee camp on the edge of Nablus that still bore traces of blood. Amid cries for revenge, an estimated 5,000 mourners marched several kilometres in a funeral cortege for the men that paralysed the city. "Smash the head of the Zionists!," and "Revenge in French Hill!" shouted the crowd led by armed and masked Al-Aqsa militants, in a reference to a Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem. How touching. How dignified. When I go, I'd like to go like that, with 5,000 chanting, ululating |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |