Posted on 01/17/2003 6:58:43 PM PST by 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.
American says Hamas fair game for all expenses paid trip to hell.
Puhleeze gimme an excuse.... (bore sighting big fire stick)
I thought he said that after we went into Iraq the first time
went into Afghanastan,
helped Israel,
killed leaders of Al-Quiada in Yemen,
blah..blah...blah....
You already killed 3000 of our citizens you rag headed hump.
I think we get the picture.
You don't like us and want us dead.
Fine as long as we understand each other.
Now as the man says....
Let's Get it ON!!
Muslims celebrating on Sept 11,2001, when they heard the news of the WTC collapsing.
Palestinian children in eastern Jerusalem celebrating news of the terror attacks in the United States.
Fine. Care to venture a guess as to how fast the moo-slime population in the US drops to 0?
Lock & Load.
19. Send intimidating messages and messengers to the outspoken individuals who are critical of Islam and seek to eliminate them by hook or crook.
Uhhhh, unknown soldier? More like the yard of the dumbass-who-threw-a-rock-at-a-soldier-with-a-gun
yard in Remal.
These people are so damn stupid, Im so sick and tired of listening to them and watching their idiotic marching thru the streets of their run down mad-max looking hell holes that they call "home". Is that all that they do all day? Do they have jobs? Do they have any hobbies other than strapping bombs onto young men and thinking of ways to sneak them into Israel and killing innocent people. These people are sick and demented and I wouldnt feel bad at all if Israel just woke up one day and took 400 tanks and lined them up side by side and ran over their shanty-townes and moved their worthless, murdering asses into Jordan where they came from.
Now that the legal language has been attached. I can't help but think that if Hamas is speaking for all Muslims, then some patriots need not worry about seeing Hamas ID cards before putting the cross-hairs an inch belong the towel.
Let's say that some Islamofascist feels a need to perform a terrorist act on local soil. With the great amount of police attention and assets committed to investigating and handling the event, I am quite sure that "collateral damage" ie. a few dead Muslim bodies felled by errant .308 rounds from angry citizens would not get the normal inquiry and attention traditionaly merited thereby making the "crime" unsolved.
Folks in communist states like CA and MA should expect all investigations of a terrorist act to cease in order for the authorities to invest every possible asset in tracking down the perpetrator(s) of a "hate" crime of killing an islamofascist.
Shame on you!
Don't you know that if plenty of folks thought just like you and carried out this retaliation on the abassadors of the "religion of peace" who have risked everything to live here, that this would overwhelm the police departments who already have a sorry record of solving random shootings?
Why just one local terrorist incident would act as both a sign to engage the enemy and as cover, and maybe a few dozen people like you and a box of ammo each, and why you folks would most likely get away with such a hate crime.
Good grief. Your actions would probably scare away most of these Islamofascists because they would fear for their lives!
How insensitive!
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