Posted on 10/13/2007 9:45:47 PM PDT by Posting
Islamic Jihad, a virulently anti-Israel group backed by Iran and Syria, has killed dozens of Israelis in suicide bombings and is believed to have about 2,000 militants armed with M-16 and AK-47 automatic rifles, grenades and anti-tank weapons.
It operates independently of the much larger Hamas, whose tolerance and sometimes encouragement of rocket attacks have increased Gaza's isolation. Hamas' blind eye to Islamic Jihad rockets _ along with mortar fire by its own militants _ has helped burnish its credentials among Gazans as a "government of resistance." But it is also endangering Hamas' rule in Gaza by contributing to the economic decline.
Contacts known by AP journalists to be Islamic Jihad members arranged the meeting with Abu Hamza, his nom de guerre that is well known in Gaza even if his face is not. He spoke to AP reporters without donning the black ski mask usually worn by senior militants in press interviews, but he refused to allow himself to be filmed, photographed or recorded.
During the session, he wore a loose-fitting shirt instead of the military fatigues associated with Islamic Jihad. Though he carried no weapon, some of the men around him did _ sitting nearby on ragged floor mats in the paint-chipped room. No food or drink was served in observance of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/11/AR2007101101246.html
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Kill them all.
I second the motion
If given a choice isn’t it better if one Islamic group fights another?
Not it there is a chance of eliminating both.
Yes. “Allah” will know his own..
Ping.
Islam does not address, or discuss, near-deaths and the afterlife like Christianity does - ever notice that?
I've reached the conclusion that the editor-in-chief at the Washington Slimes would have a coronary if this sentence read:
"Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian terrorist group..."
I've reached the conclusion that the editor-in-chief at the Washington Slimes would have a coronary if this sentence read:
"Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian terrorist group..."
oops
In other news, Ann Coulter, right wing author, is the biggest threat the Jews have seen since Hitler.
...wow, a new policy.
is believed to have about 2,000 militants armed with M-16
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the big question is how?
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