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Posted on 10/05/2003 6:53:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BEIRUT, Oct 5 (AFP) - Several civilians were injured in Sunday's overnight Israeli aerial raid on a former Palestinian training camp northwest of Damascus, the Lebanon-based spokesman of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) told AFP.
"The Israeli air force hit one of our former training camps which was evacuated more than a year ago and where we had since housed families of Palestinian refugees living in Syria," Abu Rushdi said on behalf of the radical Syrian-based Palestinian organization.
"The Israeli planes made one pass, launching four air-to-ground missiles which injured several people and caused considerable damage," he said.
He called the raid "an irresponsible act aimed at making Syria abandon its support for the Palestinian resistance."
"Such pressures are vain because they will not succeed in making Syria yield or in taming the Palestinian resistance and the intifada", he said, referring to the Palestinian uprising.
"We say to the Israelis and Zionists that the battlefield isn't in Syria, but in our occupied Palestinian territories where we await them."
The Beirut-based spokesman for Islamic Jihad, Abu Imad Rifai, said the raid hit the Ain as-Saheb region, about 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) northwest of Damascus.
"This region could shelter Syrian or Palestinian civilians, I don't know; what is certain is that we don't have any base or combattants in Syria, where our activities are limited to our media battle," he told AFP.
Israel announced Sunday that during the night, its air force had attacked a training camp in Syria used by Islamic Jihad, which claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Haifa Saturday that left 19 dead, plus the female Palestinian attacker.
Israeli military sources spoke of a guerrilla training camp for both Islamic Jihad and Hamas, the main Palestinian Islamic movement, which they alleged also housed elements of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden's terror group.
The PFLP-GC is directed by Ahmad Jibril, a former Palestinian officer in the Syrian military, whose son Jihad, was killed in Beirut in 2002 by a car bomb which Palestinians claimed was set by Israel.
Israel has also accused the PFLP-GC of arming and training Palestinian fundamentalists to launch anti-Israel operations. The organization, which rejected the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, is on the US list of terrorist organizations.
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OMG!
"Palestine" could not sustain 3 generations of murder, mayhem and destruction without the active or tacit support of all of it's community.
It only takes one person to report the bomb-making neighbors.
It takes people with no right to live to take their children with them when preparing bombs, or planning an attack on civilians, or running from retribution.
And it takes a useless, ignorant, decadent society to produce garbage like Agence France Presse.
Does anyone really believe that Israeli intelligence wouldn't know if that camp had moved the terrorists-in-training out over a year ago?
"We say to the Israelis and Zionists that the battlefield isn't in Syria, but in our occupied Palestinian territories where we await them."
That's a good one: "Don't touch our training camps in Syria, wait until the end product awaits YOU in an Israeli resturant."
And it takes utter gall to a new high; they claim THEIR civilians were killed and that's WRONG, but all those dead Israeli civilians don't enter into their equation.
Target obliterated. Nice shooting, IDF!
Wild Thing
Since the "refugees" were at a terrorist training camp, it's far more likely they were on their way to Iraq. Once trained, they're killing our people too. These camps should be attacked on an onging basis, if the US is unwilling to do it, they should use Israel as a proxy.
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