Posted on 08/14/2009 12:16:30 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Islamic radicals from an al-Qaida-inspired group battled Hamas security in the Gaza Strip Friday in a shootout that killed at least seven people.
The fighting began when Hamas forces surrounded a mosque in the southern Gaza town of Rafah where about 100 members of Jund Ansar Allah, or the Soldiers of the Companions of God, were holed up, including some armed with suicide belts and rifles, according to residents of the area.
The confrontation was triggered when the leader of the group defied Gaza's Hamas rulers by declaring in a Friday prayer sermon that the territory was an Islamic emirate.
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BBC thread earlier
Mosque gun battle rages in Gaza (Hamas vs. al-Qaeda!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316186/posts
Red-on-red is good.
Ironically, it might be better in the long run if AQ won this one: they overplay their hand enforcing a lunatic Salafist version of Islam, the populace get disgusted and turn on them as happened in Iraq, and the Palestinians finally get leadership worth negotiating a peace with.
Unfortunately, whoever wins will be bad for the few remaining indigenous Christians, who are the only folk in the Middle East I really root for.
I hope they slaughter each other, Goddamned subhuman bastards.
TROP doing what TROP does
Abdul Latif Musa (C), a representative the radical Palestinian Islamist group Jund Ansar Allah, is surrounded by armed members of his radical group after the Friday prayer sermon in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. Four people were killed and another 38 wounded in gunbattles in Gaza after Hamas police stormed a mosque where radicals had declared an Islamist "emirate". (AFP/Said Khatib)
Members of a group called Jund Ansar Allah surround their leader Abdel-Latif Moussa (2nd-R) as he speaks during Friday prayers in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip August 14, 2009. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
An emergency airdrop of ammunition would appear to be in order.
Their leader looks like Santa Claus, btw. Maybe he can take them all on a “slay” ride.
Hoping for MAJOR casualties on both sides.
That picture says everything one needs to know about islam.
Spreading the word of allah with the sword (AK47) and killing muslims in the process. Nice.
The fighting began when Hamas forces surrounded a mosque in the southern Gaza town of Rafah where about 100 members of Jund Ansar Allah, or the Soldiers of the Companions of God, were holed up, including some armed with suicide belts and rifles, according to residents of the area.
If this wasn’t real it would be downright funny! “The Soldiers of the Companions of God”. For some reason I’m thinking about Benny Hill.
Islamic radicals from an al-Qaida-inspired group battled Hamas security in the Gaza Strip Friday in a shootout that killed at least seven people.Do they need any more ammo?
It is gonna be a good day, thanks! :-)
Thanks Fred Nerks!
Islamist leader among 24 killed in Gaza fighting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2316882/posts
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