Then put THIS in yer turban..you cowardly cave dwellers.
Posted on 03/22/2004 7:11:41 AM PST by Pikamax
Arab world inflamed by assassination Egyptian leader calls attack 'cowardly'
JASPER MORTIMER ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAIRO, Egypt - Anti-Israel demonstrations erupted in the Middle East today after Israel’s killing of the spiritual leader of the Islamic militant group Hamas, and hopes for recent Arab moves to reinvigorate the region’s peace process were dimmed by shouts for revenge. Arab rage over the death of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, killed by an Israeli helicopter gunship at daybreak as he left a mosque near his Gaza Strip home, reverberated across the Middle East.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who had been using his influence to press ahead with peace efforts, called it “cowardly.’’
Asked about its likely impact on the peace process, Mubarak replied: “What peace process, when the situation is on fire?’’
Mubarak cancelled already controversial plans for a few Egyptian legislators to participate in a celebration Tuesday in the Israeli parliament of the 25th anniversary of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty. The treaty was the first between Israel and an Arab state.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat declared three days of mourning for the quadriplegic sheik and said the Israelis had “crossed all red lines.” His prime minister, Ahmed Qureia, called the killing “one of the biggest crimes that the Israeli government has committed.’’
Meanwhile, envoys from the United Nations, United States, Russia and the European Union assembled for talks at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Monday night, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher said Monday.
Maher said that in his talks with U.S. envoy William Burns hours after the assassination, Mubarak said there needed to be “a crystal-clear position on the peace process under these circumstances.’’
Burns will meet with the European Union’s Marc Otte, Russian envoy Alexander Kluging and U.N. representative Terje Roed-Larsen.
The United States, United Nations, Russia and the EU make up what is called the “quartet” of powers that produced the “road map” peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians in mid-2003.
Mohammed Mahdi Akef, the leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the oldest and most influential Islamic movement in the Middle East, issued a warning to all Americans and Israelis.
“There can be no life for the Americans and Zionists in the region,” Akef told the pan-Arabic television Al-Jazeera. “We will not rest until they (Israelis) are expelled from the region.’’
U.S. officials urged all sides top exercise restraint.
Arab political analysts called Yassin’s killing an affront to Egypt’s efforts to bring about a cease-fire between Palestinian militant groups and Israel, and warned that the move will only fuel violence.
“This is an embarrassment to Egypt,” said Dia’a Rashwan, an expert on radical Islam with Egypt’s Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies. “Egypt was directly involved in bringing Hamas and Jihad closer to the Palestinian authority and bringing about a cease-fire. Targeting Yassin is a direct blow to these efforts.’’
The Yemeni Foreign Ministry said all efforts to peacefully resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict collapsed with Yassin’s killing.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II, another important broker in the peace process, said he was “pained” by the killing. Jordanian Prime Minister Faisal al-Fayez said it would “escalate the circle of violence and instability in the region.’’
More than 5,000 Sudanese, including Islamic opposition leader Hassan Turabi, went to the Hamas press office in Khartoum to express condolences, witnesses said.
About 7,000 students demonstrated in Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, a leading theological school, while about 3,000 at San’a University in Yemen accused the United States of giving “the green light to Israel to assassinate Sheik Ahmed Yassin.’’
Thousands of Palestinians protested near the southern Lebanon city of Sidon and the northern city of Tripoli, burning tires and homemade Israeli flags. Tripoli mosques blared Quranic verses.
In Kuwait, one of America’s closest allies in the Arab world, the prime minister, Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah, predicted violence will increase.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi blamed international “indifference” to previous Israeli actions against the Palestinians for Yassin’s killing.
Then put THIS in yer turban..you cowardly cave dwellers.
Nobody says that John Dillinger was assassinated. If someone did they would sound crazy.
Wake up America. Cleanse this Nation.
No arguments here.
Too bad. Stop blowing up bus loads of civilians and you won't have that problem.
Cowards.
All terrorist vermin should be exterminated thusly.
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