Posted on 08/31/2002 9:15:07 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
JENIN, West Bank, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Israeli helicopter gunships ambushed a car in the West Bank on Saturday, killing three Palestinian militants and two children with a double missile strike, Palestinian witnesses and medical officials said.
They said two Apache helicopters struck at Tubas village near Jenin in the afternoon, obliterating the vehicle and its occupants, including a nine-year-old boy and a girl, also 9.
But some residents of Tubas said the children were outside the car, felled by flying debris which also wounded seven other people.
The three other people killed were men belonging either to the Islamic organisation Hamas or of a militant coalition called Palestinian Resistance, medical officials said.
However, Israel's Army Radio and Qatar-based satellite service al-Jazeera said some or all of them hailed from al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed group linked to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement.
Witnesses originally said four people were killed altogether, all of them militants. Medical officials attributed the confusion to the damage, which made identifying the dead difficult.
The Israeli army had no immediate comment.
Israel regularly targets Palestinian militants waging a 23-month-old uprising for independence, a tactic which has drawn international condemnation.
Its recent F-16 air strike against Hamas's military commander in the Gaza Strip, which killed 15 other Palestinians including nine children, prompted a rash of revenge attacks by the group, which is dedicated to Israel's destruction.
If that is how a sane world is supposed to look like where you can nuke 5 mio people (civilians) then I'd be rather living in what is an INSANE world. Nough said.
Remember who will be cheering in the streets when (not if) a nuclear or bio/chem weapon goes off in a major metropolitan US city.
Remember your history, we traded hundreds of THOUSANDS, if not millions of civilian lives in WW2 to save the world from fanatical Facism/Nazism and Japanese Militantcy.
I would gladly trade the lives of American/Christian hating Palestinians to rid the world of fanatical Islam which seeks to destroy both YOU and me.
Try the west bank
They're "terrorists" and they've been offered "independence".
But they want Israel. Polls show it. And they're being manipulated into uprising to protect various fascists dictators from the freedom Israel exemplifies. The author, editor and news organization are all idiots.
You are the one advocating the killing of millions of civilians through the use of a WMD. You would appear to be the "terrorist sympathizer" here.
Sadly, there were 2 children killed.
That's called "WAR", (s opposed to putting rat poison saturated screw bombs next to baby strollers in pizza parlors.)
But you know the difference, you just don't care.
But Hamas would never have done those attacks if the Israeli airstrike hadn't happened. Yeah, whatever....
It's pretty obvious that the Pallies are muslim hypocrites. They should be happy that their kids died honorably in battle and are now at the highest level in heaven. They're betraying their religious convictions by being sad and upset.
How do we know they were killed by the IDF? We've seen it before where the Pallis beat their chest and yell and scream at a child's death, only to later learn that the child was killed by the Pallis themselves. (I refer to the incident investigated by German TV a couple months ago.)
The Pallis will say and do anything for effect.
Palestinian sources told Israel Radio, however, that a Palestinian terrorist who was the target of the shooting managed to escape from the vehicle several seconds before it was hit by the missiles.
One of the three killed was a member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, 28-year-old Rafat Dararmeh, Israel radio reported.
A Palestinian terrorist runs. Al Aqsa terrorist Rafat Dararmeh killed.
One less "militant" to put rat poison saturated screw bombs next to baby strollers in pizza parlors.
It should read (that I advocate):
You are the one advocating the killing of millions of civilians TERRORIST-PRODUCING ORGANISMS through the use of a WMD. You would appear to be the "terrorist sympathizer" here.
Would it make you feel better if I advocate using conventional B-29s armed with incendiary bombs like we did in World War 2? (oh, by the way, the reason you have freedom to post your opinions is BECAUSE WE BOMBED THE CRAP OUT OF FANATICAL HOMICIDAL JAPANESE in World War 2). I think we should do the same to the Islamokazis and any other breed of vermin who cheer when 3000 civilians are burned, crushed, and blown apart in Israel and the USA.
Maybe you need to see pictures of people jumping off the towers and the Palestinians cheering in the streets side by side?
And to bluester:
One that calls for killing of 5 mio people with WMD (most of which would be civilians, children and women) calls me a terrorist sympathizer. Interesting.
One that calls for killing of 5 mio people with WMD (most of which would be civilians (Terrorists within a war zone or Jordanians to stupid to get ot of West Bank) children (FUTURE SUICIDE BOMBERS), and women)(TWO-LEGGED TERRORIST PRODUCING ORGANISMS) calls me a terrorist sympathizer. Interesting.
There, that sounds better.
I'll attempt to translate Reuters-speak:
militants = terrorists
children = human shields
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