"We in America know the benevolence that is at the heart of Islam. We've seen it in many ways."
Remarks at the Annual State Department Iftaar Dinner
Secretary Condoleezza Rice
Benjamin Franklin Room
Washington, DC
October 25, 2005
Posted on 10/27/2005 6:29:00 PM PDT by Sabramerican
Bomber's hometown celebrates attack Khaled Abu Toameh, THE JERUSALEM POST Oct. 27, 2005
Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of Kabatiya, south of Jenin, Wednesday night to celebrate the suicide bombing in Hadera, which was carried out by local resident Hassan Abu Zeid.
Chanting Allahu Akbar (God is great), some 3,000 people, including Fatah and Islamic Jihad gunmen, converged on Abu Zeid's home to "congratulate" his family on the success of the attack, which killed five people and wounded more than 30.
They also called for more suicide attacks in Israel.
"With blood, with soul, we redeem Hassan," the crowd chanted. "Oh Jihad, Jihad, give us more [suicide] bombings. Oh [Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon, prepare more coffins."
Shortly after the attack, Islamic Jihad activists shouted through loudspeakers in the town that the suicide bomber was Abu Zeid, 26, a member of the organization's armed wing, Al-Quds Brigades. They said the attack was carried out to avenge the killing earlier this week of top Islamic Jihad operative Luai Sa'adi in Tulkarm.
Abu Zeid's mother, Um Hassan, said she was proud of her son for what he did. Her husband, Ahmed, a blacksmith who was later arrested by the IDF, greeted the well-wishers with tears in his eyes.
"I'm proud of my son and hope that he will enter heaven," the mother declared.
"We're all your sons," shouted one of the men as several women ululated in an expression of joy.
According to the family, Abu Zeid left home just before sunrise on Wednesday, saying he was on his way to dawn prayers at a local mosque.
"There was nothing unusual about his behavior," said one family member. "He didn't say anything about his plans."
Another relative described Abu Zeid as a "normal and quiet person" who rarely talked about political matters.
"He used to work with his father and was never known as a religious extremist," he said. "We never heard that he was wanted by Israel."
The mother said she first heard about her son's involvement in the attack as she and the rest of the family were preparing for the breaking meal of the fasting month of Ramadan.
"Some men started shouting through loudspeakers that the suicide bomber who carried out the attack in Hadera was Hassan Abu Zeid," she said. "We were all in a state of shock."
Later in the day the family, with the help of hundreds of young men, removed all furniture from the house for fear that the IDF would demolish it.
Khaled al-Batsh, a senior Islamic Jihad leader in the Gaza Strip, lashed out at the Palestinian Authority for condemning the Hadera attack, vowing to step up suicide bombings in Israel. However, he said his organization would abide by the unofficial truce with Israel only if Israel honored it and halted its "aggression" on the Palestinians.
"Nineteen Islamic Jihad members have been killed by Israel during the period of calm," Batsh said. "This means that Israel isn't abiding by the truce. It is therefore inconceivable that we abide by the truce unilaterally."
They don't leave much of an alternative...
3000 of the two legged vermin all in one spot! Where's that MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Burst) when you need one?
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The holiday season, Muslim style
With blood, with soul, we redeem Hassan Oh Jihad, Jihad, give us more bombings. Oh Sharon, prepare more coffins…I'm proud of my son and hope that he will enter heaven…mother said she first heard about her son's involvement in the attack as she and the rest of the family were preparing for the breaking meal of the fasting month of Ramadan
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
Israel should give her a Moab for dessert. Breeding and training children for suicide. What a religion.
"We in America know the benevolence that is at the heart of Islam. We've seen it in many ways."
Remarks at the Annual State Department Iftaar Dinner
Secretary Condoleezza Rice
Benjamin Franklin Room
Washington, DC
October 25, 2005
You know...I really, really, despise these "people". Their values, if one can call them that, are just inhuman, twisted. And I'd want to stuff a sock in that ululating woman's mouth. I hate that sound.
Too funny. Now my roomates must think I'm crazy laughing like that!
Time to bomb that town...
Is there anything redeeming about that sick culture?
Oh, to have been there, to have had the opportunity to shove a small cactus into her pie-hole..well, there's always photoshop!
You got me, doug. The more I learn about it, the worse it gets. And its all bad.
Dittos, they're having a party, someone needs to supply the fireworks.
I have been hearing for years of capitulations by Israel to the Pali-swine-ians in the name of peace - and yet the terrorist don't let up.
Why is it so hard for Israel (and the US) to see what is really going on here - an effort by the muslim world to wipe jews from the earth. Yet Israel just keeps on giving in.
Is it going to take a major attack (as in a massive attack on the scale of 9-11) to come back to reality? I really would like to not see more innocent civilians sacrificed to the muslim satan-followers.
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