Posted on 04/15/2002 2:51:55 PM PDT by Maedhros
Suspected terror mastermind Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network claimed responsibility for the blast near a synagogue which killed 15 including ten German tourists last week in Tunisia, the Al-Qods Al-Arabi newspaper said.
The London-based Arab daily, which did not say how it obtained the claim, said "the Al-Qaeda netowrk of Sheikh Osama bin Laden claims the operation against the Djerba synagogue."
"This suicide operation is a response to the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip," said a document, which the newspaper claimed was a genuine Al-Qaeda statement.
The statement said Tunisian Nizar bin Mohammed Nawar, aka Saif al-Din al-Tunsi carried out the operation, masterminded by the "the command of the Islamic army for the liberation of holy places."
"This suicide operation is also a reprisal for (Arab) governments' refusal to allow their peoples to launch jihad (holy war) against the Jews," said the text carried by the newspaper.
The daily also published the testament of the alleged kamizake, calling on members of his family do die as "martyrs".
Authorities in Tunisia maintain that the blast was an accident caused when a truck carrying natural gas went out of control and crashed into the wall surrounding the Griba synagogue on the island of Djerba, bursting into flames as a group of German tourists visited the site.
Chancellor Schroeder responds forcefully: "The German people hereby apologize for our existence and the fact that we have yet to submit to the will of Allah. Please also accept our deepest apologies that German bodies interfered with a martyr operation, having had no business visting a synogogue in the first place. We wish no ill will towards Arabs or Muslims in general. Please leave us alone and don't hurt us. Please."
Of course, the rest of the Arab world foisted the PLO leadership onto Tunis during the 70s and 80s -- but that was only because they didn't want to host them themselves.
They are (or maybe, were) the one of the only nations in that area that do/did not have a radical Islamist insurgency problem. And that was primarily due to the fact that the nation as a whole is very laid back and the government is not repressive to any significant degree.
Don't know but you have to bet that their tourist business just went into the tank. Especially from Germany.
Oops! Tunisia is not going to be happy about that even if they do harbor terrorists. Tourism is a good form of revenue and someone just blew theirs.
These crazy bastards certainly have no idea of how to win an argument or a war......We're simply going to have to kick their freaking asses - big time and soon.
Semper Fi
You men are too weak, too feable, too nice.
Let a couple of Sephardic women plan this (and we can easily get a roomful of retired foreign generals to cooperate) and you will see:
the liberation of the Arabian peninsula and its takeover by the Aga Khan;
Palestinians FLEEING Israel (the Israeli Army is just too sweet for my taste);
the Jewish cultural, not armed, takeover of Egypt.
...and that we can do before breakfast.
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perhaps if we had said we were going to do something HORRIBLE they might have showed up!
the mainSLIME media makes me gag!
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