Hamas says American targets fair game if U.S. attacks Iraq

Ha`aretz ^ | Saturday, January 18, 2003 | By Ha'aretz Service and Reuters

[demlosers]

Muslims and Arabs will attack American targets everywhere if the United States goes to war against Iraq, a senior member of the militant Islamic movement Hamas said in Gaza on Friday.

He made the new threat during a march by 3,000 Palestinians through the winding streets of Gaza City on the 12th anniversary of the 1991 Gulf War. Some protesters fired shots shot in the air and others held portraits of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

"If Iraq is attacked... all American targets will be open targets for every Muslim, Arab or Palestinian," Mahmoud al-Zahar, told reporters.

"Any attack against Iraq will be answered by resistance everywhere and American interests everywhere will be targeted. We say that all American targets will be open targets to every Muslim, Arab, or Palestinian," he said.

Islamic groups and secular factions at the march issued their own statement which condemned Arab states who were "silent against the assaults on Iraq and Palestine."

Protesters chanted slogans against U.S. President George W. Bush, whose father was president during the 1991 war in which Iraqi troops were driven out of Kuwait.

"Bush junior is a coward. Iraq will not be humiliated," they chanted under Palestinian and Iraqi flags.

The crowd had gathered at Gaza's Palestine square, after the weekly Moslem Friday prayers held in several mosques in the city. It headed for the yard of the unknown soldier in Remal neighborhood, before arrived at the building of the Palestinian Legislative Council.

The demonstrators chanted slogans denouncing U.S. warnings to hit Iraq, shouting "George Bush listen to us, Iraq will never surrender."

Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the Islamic militant Hamas movement, as well as leaders of other political factions, led the demonstration.

Palestinians have regularly held rallies and marches in support of Saddam in recent weeks.

Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat supported Saddam during the 1991 war but has been more cautious this time, calling for a peaceful resolution of its standoff with the United States which has called on Iraq to disarm.

Iraq has paid millions of dollars to families of Palestinians killed during the uprising, including those of suicide bombers.

[demlosers]

I guess the Hamas want to be castrated.

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[TheLion]

"a senior member of the militant Islamic movement Hamas said in Gaza on Friday".......We could start with this clown!

[goodnesswins]

"The crowd had gathered at Gaza's Palestine square, after the weekly Moslem Friday prayers held in several mosques in the city."

Gee....could those prayer "meetings" be something else?

[tet68]

Any attack by Hamas and they are targets for any American too. Seems fair to me.

[yooper]

Oh, and American targets have NOT been fair game up till now? Bring it on, you swarthy little turds......

[Pearls Before Swine]

"All American interests are fair targets", and "Could you keep pressuring the Israelis, too?"

[red-dawg]

BRING IT ON!

[A CA Guy]

Sounds like it's time to give the Palestinians a one way ticket to Jordan where they all came from.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Muslims and Arabs will attack American targets everywhere if the United States goes to war against Iraq,

As that is the exact same situation we are in pre-war with Iraq I say "Go for it!"

Mahmoud al-Zahar huh? Let me write that name down.

[CPOSharky]

"George Bush listen to us, Iraq will never surrender."

Fifteen minutes is forever? (Fifteen minutes is how long I give them to start surrendering after the US starts kicking butt.)

[PhilDragoo]

Such gatherings shall be daisy-cutter magnets.

Arafat will get a splat: take the shot.

[aynrandfreak]

If Saddam has no connections to terrorist groups, why would they target us for liberating Iraq?

[savedbygrace]

If Saddam has no connections to terrorist groups, why would they target us for liberating Iraq?

Bears repeating.

[TigersEye]

Mahmoud al-Zahar = a single target.

Hamas = a number of targets.

[yonif]

1. Hamas is already a target by America
2. Hamas already attacked Americans when its terrorists attacked Hebrew University in Jerusalem, killing I believe, 3 American students.

[RaceBannon]

NEW HEADLINE FROM THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: U.S. ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT IF HAMAS ATTACKS U.S TARGETS, ALL AMERICANS WILL ATTACK HAMAS TARGETS IN THE U.S.

Like we need to be told?

[demosthenes the elder]

fine. in response, I say all islamicists are fair game because HAMAS made this statement.

[demosthenes the elder]

oh, come now... they are not ALL jordanians.
some of them came from saudi, some from egypt, some from syria...

[rintense]

Just
Bring
It.