Hamas Leader Killed

[T_Bone]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040322/D81F6VR00.html

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder and leader of the Hamas militant group that targeted Israelis in suicide bombings, was killed by missiles fired from Israeli helicopters as he left a mosque at daybreak Monday, witnesses said.

Hamas confirmed the death in an announcement broadcast over mosque loudspeakers and vowed revenge against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

[bloodline]

Hamas... ...vowed revenge against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

How is this different from any other day?

[odin]

Oh my :-o.

If I have any clue how powerfull/infuential this guy was in islam extremist regions, the revenge of Hamas would equal total war.

Sheik Hassin always cracked me up whenever he had another TV appearance. That people would actually listen to that old handicapped midget with squely (sp?) voice. :-).

[mikeymike]

Oooh, nice one, create a martyr out of him.

[bloodline]

We should buy the Islralis a few million AmigaONES's and the Palistinions a few million Pegasos2s (or the other way around) and then let them flame fest it out on Ann.lu ... it would be a lot less messy and probably a lot more fun

[odin]

Think of poor old ckemp! ANN's servers would become overloaded :-).

[T_Bone]

odin wrote:
Think of poor old ckemp! ANN's servers would become overloaded :-).

 :lol:

[KennyR]

This thread could also be titled "How NOT to fight terrorism" or "How to get your enemies to kill 200 of your innocent civilians in one easy step".

A lot of Israelis will die for this over the next few months. And even more Palestinians will die in the reprisals. And so on.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Some global cooling would do good to these hot headed.

[FluffyMcDeath]

bloodline wrote:
We should buy the Islralis a few million AmigaONES's [...]

The Israelis should be able to buy their own computers:

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      Since 1949 the US has given Israel a total of $84,854,827,200. The interest costs born by US taxpayers on behalf of Israel are $49,937,000,000 – making the total amount of aid given to Israel since 1949 $134,791,507,200 (more than $134 billion).5
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      The total cost of this financial aid to US tax payers per Israeli is $23,240.
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      Since 1992, the US has offered Israel an additional $2 billion in loan guarantees every year.6
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      Nearly all past loans to Israel have been forgiven – leading Israel to claim that they have never defaulted on repayment of a US loan – with most loans made on the understanding that they would be forgiven before Israel was required to repay them.
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      In 1997 alone, the total of US grants and loan guarantees to Israel was $5.5 billion, i.e., $15,068,493 per day.

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Gosh Fluffy, how many reports of money given to the Palestinians did you have to skip over before you came up with these figures?  :-D

[KennyR]

Huh, what kind of stupid statement is that? This money given to the Palestinians, how many anti-tank rockets or anti-aircraft missiles has it bought? Why are the Palestinians still totally defenceless when Israel decides to go on another little rampage?

Whatever money the Palestinians get is either spent on food and medicine, or wasted on small arms that are useless against the Israelis. Ergo, it's not much. If every time Israeli tanks went into Palestine two or three of them got nailed, we'd see a lot more negotiation and a lot less illegal actions by Israel.

And on the other side, tourism and selling oranges hardly is likely to generate the billions required to maintain Israel's huge military. No wonder the Arab world hates America. If it isn't conspiring and throwing Arab states against each other, it's giving money to Israel and then trying to say its mediating a peace. The hypocrisy is absolutely stunning.

[Wolfe]

Just another day in the Middle East.  Been there, seen it.  They can have it.  Since biblical times that place has been cursed.  :admonish:

Neither side really wants peace.  There neibors don't want peace.  There will be no peace until all are dead.   :insane:

[BADHead]

just more justification for guys like this (Left)

[T_Bone]

BADHead wrote:
just more justification for guys like this (Left)

replace "Justification" with "Excuses"