Posted on 02/02/2010 4:52:19 PM PST by SJackson
JERUSALEM — Palestinian militants said Tuesday they had launched a large number of floating explosives into the Mediterranean Sea to avenge the death of a top Hamas commander, a day after two bomb-laden barrels washed up on Israel's coastline.
Israeli authorities launched an intensive search for new bombs, closing miles of beaches, deploying robotic bomb squads and ordering surfers out of the wintry waters.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Hamas and hinted at retaliation.
Abu Saed, a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, a Gaza faction with close ties to Hamas, said the attack was meant to avenge the killing last month of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a veteran Hamas operative who Israeli defence officials say was involved in smuggling rockets into Gaza.
Hamas says Israeli Mossad agents ambushed al-Mabhouh in his Dubai hotel room, immobilized him with an electrical shock and strangled him to death.
Israel has refused to comment on the allegations.
"We confirm that there are still many of these charges in the ocean, and they haven't exploded yet," Abu Saed said, standing alongside five other gunmen in military fatigues.
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Gaza is so small, Israel could EASILY obliterate all life and all vertical structures using conventional ordnance only.
Gee, I wonder what they are waiting for.
Gazans should all thank the moon god allah that I am not running the show there.
I hope the Israelis will do Gaza as described, soon.
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It's Israel's fault.
These ignorant f-cks, still living in the dark age’s have only survived thus far because of PC in the US. Its our fault. Israel is almost to the point of saying screw everybody...we will do what needs to be done. I pray they do...soon.
I am very concerned for the Berkeley students who are being held as spies in Iran. It has been six months, now, and little has been written about their capture, except in the WSJ. The WSJ reported that Iran claimed to be making them the centerpiece of their negotiations with the Obama administration, yet we hear nothing. They are all Jewish, of Iraqi descent. I am afraid that the threat for 2/11 might have something to do with their fate.
I suppost that’s possible, as a threat, but harming them dilutes their value.
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