Posted on 02/24/2006 2:53:44 PM PST by IonImplantGuru
BALATA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank — Israeli troops on Thursday killed five Palestinians, including a top militant who said just a day earlier that he would never be caught, in Israel's largest military sweep since pulling out from the Gaza Strip last summer.
Three of the dead were gunmen from the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades — a violent offshoot of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party — killed during a shootout in their hide-out in the Balata refugee camp.
The deaths brought to eight the number of Palestinians killed by army fire since the Balata sweep began Monday. The military said 15 fugitives have been arrested.
Dozens of jeeps patrolled Balata, an Al Aqsa stronghold and a haven for weapons dealers, and sealed it off from the adjacent city of Nablus. Al Aqsa fugitives have been moving from hide-out to hide-out since the army raid began.
Al Aqsa confirmed three of its members, including senior member Mohammed Shtawi, a fugitive, had been killed. On Wednesday, Shtawi told an AP reporter that earlier in the day soldiers surrounded his hide-out for five hours, but he and several friends slipped away. "They will never catch me," he said at the time.
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Obviously, he was wrong.
If memory serves me, Osama Bin Laden recently made the same claim...
Add one to the "famous last words" canonical list.
I am so tired of these reporters interviewing, and thus, protecting terrorists.
Time Magazine (or Newsweak) just had a story about a roadside bomber from Iraq. I thought, "Why don't you tell our military where this guy is? So we can kill him?"
But obviously the press is more interested in getting a story on the next roadside bombing than preventing it.
I think that Osama could probably get an in-person interview with Katie Couric. And she would not help the US get him.
Calling this
pig sty town a "refugee camp" is an insult to real refugees in real camps, escaping Muslim violence every where in the world, such as this one in Sudan.
It is bad enough the presstitutes insist on the appelative "Palestinian"; but to allow them to continue calling towns and cities "refugee camps" is a travesty.
BTW, Good shooting, IDF; way to go!
Katie would do a wet spot on the carpet for an Osama interview.
Exactly. Israel 1 Dead raghead braggard 0.
Cry havoc, release the hounds of war.
Being a lover of Celtic music, I must compliment you on your tagline.
Thanks so much. I guess you know "Sgt. MacKenzie".
FReeper "pipecorp" knew what my tagline was too. He also commented on it tonight. He plays the pipes and plays Sgt. MacKenzie at funerals.
What a moving lament! Says everything there is to say about a soldier in a few verses.
The lonely sound of a single bugle playing taps I revere, the bagpipes and the slow funeral procession evoke similar emotions.
Your reference to Sgt. MacKenzie is spot on and I tip me tankard and wish you and yours a peaceful slumber.
Lament for all the dead soldiers.
Sgt. MacKenzie
In Scottish:
Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
When they come a wull staun ma groon
Staun ma groon al nae be afraid
Thoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tears
Ains a year say a prayer faur me
Close yir een an remember me
Nair mair shall a see the sun
For a fell tae a Germans gun
Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
Now in English:
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
When they come I will stand my ground
Stand my ground I’ll not be afraid
Thoughts of home take away my fear
Sweat and blood hide my veil of tears
Once a year say a prayer for me
Close your eyes and remember me
Never more shall I see the sun
For I fell to a Germans gun
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Where before many more have gone
From Moja Irlandia
What proud prose, makes me itch for a dragoon and a sultry wench.
You've got a way with words. Love it!
Have you considered that if Israel kept the entire West Bank, the "natural border problem would be solved.
As for the Sand Savages in the path of progress, just ship 'em back to Jordan where most of them were from originally.
One important benefit from such a solution would be that the Pali populations could then be absorbed by teh other Arab nations. And that would benefit those nations (term used loosely) since the Pali's are the best educated of the Arabs.
Instant karma's gonna get you..
"Men make plans but God's will shall be done" (quoting from memory).
You should hear some of his other music. His band, Clann An Drumma recently went thru a personel change but the old members were AWESOME! I expect the new folks to do just as well.
I heartily urge you both to check out Highlander Radio at www.celticradio.net(they take Clann Drumma requests)
Thanks for the tip. I sure will check it out.
Huh? Wha' fo' you say dat to me?
Because of my 'burnt hubris' remark?
In any case, you may be right; I had an odd round of golf this morning... seemed like it was either birdies and pars - or double and triple bogies. Ah well, thank goodness it's only a game.
I think that song is by Jerry Jeff Walker.
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