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Middle East
Hamas vows Dire Revenge™ during Shanab funeral
2003-08-22
Tens of thousands of Palestinians poured into the streets of Gaza City on Friday to march in a fiery funeral procession for Ismaeel Abu Shanab, a leader of Hamas assassinated Thursday by Israel. "Abu Shanab, rest in peace. Our armies will go forward. We are the men of the dark ages night," a loudspeaker said. Local journalists overestimated the crowd at about 100,000, one of the largest rented mobs to turn out for a funeral of a Palestinian killed by Israel since the start of the intifada. "The road map is being buried, only martyrdom operations will remain," a Hamas man shouted through a loudspeaker.
While keeping one eye on the sky.
Addressing mourners at Gaza’s main mosque, top Hamas official Abdel-Aziz Rantissi said, "We love killing joos martyrdom and we seek martyrdom. Our leaders and followers will continue to fight until the last follower we achieve martyrdom." Rantisi said that even if Israel killed more top Hamas leaders "another leadership will arise and continue the fight until victory."
"Now excuse me, I have to go hide".
Posted by:Steve

#10  The funeral needed a big JDAM to start it off with a bang, and to send a message.
Posted by: Alaska Paul in Nome   2003-8-22 9:18:55 PM  

#9  Aren't there three other barbers in this quartet? Seems like we've playing a longer solo than the guitarist in the live version of Free Bird.
Posted by: Steve D   2003-8-22 4:44:25 PM  

#8  Bush administration just declared HAMAS a terrorist organization,..

This is a lot like officially proclaiming January to be the middle of winter.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-8-22 4:15:12 PM  

#7  They wouldn't be saying that if they're kids were the ones blasted to hell.
Posted by: Charles   2003-8-22 3:32:40 PM  

#6  dish - it may make sense from the Hamas viewpoint - whats really outrageous is that the Guardian and the LA times headline that the Israeli attack broke the truce.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2003-8-22 3:12:29 PM  

#5  Hamas assets were already frozen. What bush froze were personal assets of leaders, and assets of groups that support Hamas.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2003-8-22 3:11:27 PM  

#4  this just in.....

Bush administration just declared HAMAS a terrorist organization, Orders Justice Dept. To freeze all assets.

Its about freakin time.
Posted by: Frank Martin   2003-8-22 2:02:59 PM  

#3  I think LH nailed it on this one.
To the palestinian leadership, there are leaders on both sides, and everyone between them is cannon fodder. Cannon fodder is expended for stagecraft and propaganda. It's all about power.
Posted by: Dishman   2003-8-22 12:56:24 PM  

#2  Israelis kill Hamas cannon fodder.

Does Hamas say the hudna is over? No.

They merely blow up a bus. Tit-for-tat from their point of view.

Israelis respond this time by killing a senior Hamas leader, close to Yassin and Rantissi.

NOW the hudna is over.

Theres a big difference between killing expendable cannon fodder, and killing a senior leader. Of course no one here should be surprised at that.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2003-8-22 12:37:48 PM  

#1  Look, the man wants to "achieve martyrdom." I think we should accomodate him. Do everything we can to help him along.
Posted by: Mike   2003-8-22 12:18:42 PM  

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