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Tehran ‘bounty’ for attack on Israel
2005-10-30
IRAN has promised a reward of $10,000 (£5,600) to Islamic Jihad if the militant group launches rockets from the West Bank towards Tel Aviv, a senior Palestinian intelligence official said last week.

Speaking in his Ramallah office, the official produced a fat wad of $100 notes which he said had been confiscated from a pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad activist.

The money was said to have gone from Iran to Damascus, the Syrian capital, from where Ibrahim Shehadeh, Islamic Jihad’s head of overseas operations, transferred it to the West Bank.

According to the intelligence official, the Palestinian Authority has located workshops where “Al-Quds” (Jerusalem) rockets are being made and has given their co-ordinates to the Israelis. “We understand they destroyed some of them,” he said.

The Israeli media claimed last week that rocket attacks from the West Bank were widely expected: Ben Gurion airport’s eastern runway is just five miles away and the outskirts of Tel Aviv are within 10 miles.

Shaul Mofaz, Israel’s defence minister, and the army’s chief of staff held an emergency meeting to discuss requests from the mayors of towns bordering the West Bank for sirens to alert inhabitants to incoming rockets.

Israeli intelligence officials said that Iran was threatening the country on three fronts: through long-range missiles based in Lebanon; through terrorist networks around the world; and through the new arsenals of the West Bank.

Islamic Jihad is the only Palestinian group that calls for the destruction of the state of Israel. Based in Damascus, it has an annual budget of several million dollars — provided by Iran. Ramadan Shalah, its leader, has a PhD in economics from Durham University. The organisation’s military arm is the “Al-Quds Brigades”.

Since the death of Yasser Arafat last year, Islamic Jihad has taken the lead in attacks against Israel. A suicide bombing that killed five people in the northern town of Hadera last week was revenge for the killing by Israeli special forces of Luay Saadi, the group’s leader in the West Bank.

This weekend Israeli forces launched an operation against the organisation in both the West Bank and Gaza — including the destruction of the rocket workshops.
Posted by:Ebbuse Spomong1356

#12  Those are Kounterfeit Korean C-notes.
Posted by: Snomorong Glamble7743   2005-10-30 19:31  

#11  The Roadmap is for sukas.
Posted by: Abu Bambi   2005-10-30 19:28  

#10  You fell for it again?

I was gonna illustrate this with a fine olde cartoon, but ever try to google "cartoon sucker"? Many of you infidel low lifes might enjoy the result.
Posted by: abu abu Mazan Mazan   2005-10-30 18:24  

#9  Sounds an aweful lot like that sadaam fucker.
Posted by: closedanger   2005-10-30 16:00  

#8  trailing wife, I would be astonished too, save that Abbas has literally painted himself into this exact sort of corner.

Having tainted his administration's nation-building efforts through repeated attempts to incorporate terrorist factions, Abbas is now confronted with the grim task of winnowing out those who refuse to cooperate.

Better that he had outrightly rejected terrorist participation, mandated coexistence with Israel as a foundation of inclusion and never made such incredibly stupid obeisances as adopting a nom du guerre. Of course, that would have required heretofore unimaginable quantities of testosterone and moral rectitude for a Palestinian.

I fear Abbas will quickly find out that the short cuts and side door solutions he is employing shall cost him his life at the hands of those he sought to appease. He would better have taken a page from Israel's playbook regarding appeasement of terrorists. This much should have been obvious to him.
Posted by: Zenster   2005-10-30 12:51  

#7  Sounds like the Palestinian Authority is finally starting to sprout a set out of sheer desperation. Rather odd how they need Israel to do the all heavy lifting for them. Implicating Iran is certainly some sort of conciliatory gesture, and just what the doctor ordered for further condemnation of Tehran's mullahs. But won't this Iranian revelation and feeding of launch site coordinates make the PA into collaborators? I dare say this calls for a well-buttered tub of the highest quality popcorn.
Posted by: Zenster   2005-10-30 12:37  

#6  El Cajon? LOL
Posted by: Frank G   2005-10-30 12:35  

#5  According to the [P.A.] intelligence official, the Palestinian Authority has located workshops where “Al-Quds” (Jerusalem) rockets are being made and has given their co-ordinates to the Israelis.

I'm speechless.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-10-30 12:29  

#4  sounds like a 5-6 mile no-man's land in the west bank needs to be created....
Posted by: Frank G   2005-10-30 11:59  

#3  What's the bounty for blowing up Iranian nuclear reactors?

a chicken ranch on planetoid ¥Ç, in sister city, 3 parsecs [1.918 × 1013] from El Cahon.
Posted by: Publishers Clearing House   2005-10-30 11:58  

#2  What's the bounty for blowing up Iranian nuclear reactors?
Posted by: J. Tiberius Kirk   2005-10-30 10:36  

#1  Iran better be careful. Israel could kick the blackhats A** anytime they want. And they don't give a rat's rearend about world opinion.
Posted by: anymouse   2005-10-30 10:28  

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