Without mercy: Israelis execute Arafat's elite guards

The Observer (U.K.) ^ | 03/31/2002 | Peter Beaumont

[RnMomof7]

I am sure the press will make the Muslims victims...just the way of the world..

[isiti]

His knees were doubled up in rigor mortis. One of the legs of his green parachute jumpsuit had been burned through to the skin by a round fired at such close quarters that the muzzle flash had ignited the fabric. A gaping wound was visible in his chest - also apparently from a burst of fire from close range. What killed him, however, was the gunshot to his temple.

you bastard!

They Couldn't find the knees or the clothing or the face, all that was left is the burned, scattered skin of the innocent. How dare you present us with the particulars of the justified death of these thugs.

[Torie]

I think Sharon is mindlessly lashing out without a strategy. Killing a few Arafat guards, and cutting off his electricity and telephone lines has no meaning, other than to stoke the flames further. I have said it before, and I will say it again. The idea that the IDF can root out the bad guys house to house is a chimera. The idea that this will tame the Palestinians ignores their mindset. It is doomed to failure I suspect, and Sharon's government will fall. The only plus of all this is that it picks up the pace of events.

[sheik yerbouty]

Janet Reno will have to do.

[airedale]

This reporter has shown where his allegiance are with this article. There is nothing neutral about it and a lot of it is nothing more than spin from one side. He declares things to be true based on speculation.

[Mr. K]

These are the same people who kill women and children with suicide bombers???

[Lancey Howard]

Sharkawi, a co-ordinator for emergency services, told me, "I cannot understand what the Israelis are thinking. They also used one of our ambulances today as a human shield. They sandwiched it inside a convoy."

Say what?

[jraven]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, how horrid! The elite guards, who are involved with an organization and a man who is involved with sending people to blow themselves up with nail bombs that shred kids, women, and innocent men's bodies was executed!! This is WRONG! They should have been put on trial, and given Johnny Cochran as their lawyer. He'd say, "If you blow up the Jews, in the Arab world you can't lose! It isn't an error that there is terror! Kids lives must be messed, because we are oppressed." How can I SLEEP tonight, knowing that they killed these role models for all those little Arab Palestinian children who are looking foward to day when they will maturing, and be able to blow up more kids and women themselves.

[toddst]

This scum is as "elite" as the "Elite Republican Guards" of Iraq that the leftist newspapers were so afraid of in 1991.

You are exactly right. They folded fast. The next "elite" guards may come out with their hands up. Where have we seen that before?

[DoughtyOne]

Cry me a river...

Not you Pokey, but sheesh! This is war. It's what Arasplat wanted. Now rejoice oh Palestinians.

[cardinal4]

Pokey, Pokey, poKEEEEEE: What's up??? If you wanted to avoid this, you should have been demonstrating LIKE CRAZY to have your hero ARAFART take the deal he was offered under x42. The Israelis gave them EVERYTHING...but you and the rst of the arafart worshippers want all Joos dead.

Put the crack pipe down and SLOWLY back away from the computer.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Sudden increase in demand for virgins in Paradise...

Hell just received a sudden surge of new residents

[Lancey Howard]

By the way, if the Israelis ever show these terrorists "mercy", they are finished.

[LarryLied]

So it's great to execute prisoners of war?

Not a good move if true.

[Shermy]

Netanyahu knows Sharon is just bumbling. He's setting up his return, upon sharon's fall, with some kind of plan for a wall, etc.

[Entropy Squared]

It doesn't seem likely they would unnecessarily blow away those brains before they had extracted the last of the information they contained.

[zeaal]

"They were executed in cold blood ..."

No, in cold-blood is setting at a cafe with your friends and family enjoying a spring evening and being blasted with shards of glass and screws and nails packaged into the suicide murderers bomb. In cold-blood is running an errand for your mom to the local pharmacy at mid-day and being murdered by a fanatical young woman or man that has been talked into being a suicide murderer.

The men that were found dead in Arafat's compound were men that are known combatants. They were armed and ready to kill or be killed.

[ClancyJ]

Well, when you live daily with suicide bombers blowing up your family members as they buy groceries or eat a dinner, just remember your statement and YOU think about how you protect yourself.

How come there are no complaints when Arafat's suicide bombers blow up people. What about how Arafat acts? What about all the terrorists lined up to kill babies? Do they think about how they act?

I suggest you look at who is attacking innocents here. The Israeli's were trying for peace, they have had Arafat surrounded for a long time. Yet, Arafat is still alive. His guards were armed and were attempting to kill the Israelis who are merely trying to stop the terrorist killing. All Arafat has had to do was call off the bombings - he - ARAFAT - refused. Arafat is to blame for that mess and no other person.

[Torie]

I hope you are right. The sooner the better. Just why the Israeli public tolerates any Arabs in Israel who are not citizens of Israel is a great mystery to me. It is quite insane really.