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By publishing a video from within the terror tunnels on Iranian television, The al-Aqsa Brigades has continued pushing their own brand of psychological warfare against the Israeli people. A year after the beginning of Operation Protective Edge, the al-Aqsa Brigades published a video from inside a terror tunnel allegedly leading from Gaza to the Israeli border. In the video posted Sunday on Iranian television, one of the terrorists seen in the video said the tunnel measures 3.5 kilometers wide and is made entirely of concrete. The reporter in the video suggested that the underground tunnel crossed over the Israeli border...

SNIPPET: "Majlis National Security Committee chairman Alaeddin Boroujerdi said that the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Egyptian parliament, Muhammad Al-Fiqi, has authorized the members of the Iranian flotilla, which is to arrive via the Suez Canal, to enter Gaza through the Rafah border crossing. Boroujerdi clarified that this flotilla, which includes Majlis members, is distinct from the one being organized by the Iranian Red Crescent."

"Navy foils attack in waters near Gaza" SNIPPET: "As Gaza flotillas make headlines, Palestinian cell wearing diving suits attempts to launch attack from sea. IDF force spots cell members in waters of Nahal Aza area, opens fire. Al-Aqsa Brigades say four people killed, one missing. Shortly afterwards, IAF attacks rocket launching cell attacked in northern Gaza; one gunmen moderately hurt SNIPPET: "As the Gaza-bound flotillas continue to make headlines, the Israeli Navy thwarted an attack from the sea early Monday. According to the Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson's Unit, a Navy force spotted a cell in the waters of the Nahal...

Was Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King on the mark last week when he asserted Islamic terrorists would rejoice if Sen. Barack Obama becomes the next U.S. president? As a journalist and author who has conducted dozens of on-the-record interviews with Muslim terrorists, including with some of the most notorious Palestinian terror leaders, and who has documented many of those interviews in a recently released, 210-page book, "Schmoozing with Terrorists," I can answer the above question with a resounding "yes." Terrorists worldwide would indeed be emboldened by an Obama election victory not so much because of the senator's middle name –...

Muslim terrorist leaders are "thankful" for the efforts of activist and congressional candidate Cindy Sheehan, stating in a new book Sheehan's anti-Iraq war activities and her statements against President Bush "give us hope" the U.S. will change its Mideast policies. "You [Sheehan] give us hope and you show us that there are different Americans than those whom we know," stated Ramadan Adassi, chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group in the West Bank's Anskar Refugee Camp. "This sincere woman says what we've been saying all these last years – Saddam never threatened America or its security. Now Iraq...

Excerpt - GAZA, June 29 (Reuters) - A spokesman for gunmen in the Gaza Strip said they had fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel early on Thursday. The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the claim by the spokesman from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement. ~ snip ~

In Gaza. In the hands of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militia arm of Yasir Arafat’s al-Fatah. The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday (but the New York Times and the rest of the US MSM are pretending they have not read it): The Aksa Martyrs Brigades announced on Sunday that its members have succeeded in manufacturing chemical and biological weapons.

Terror leaders threaten Americans, hope boy, 16, 'goes directly to hell'TEL AVIV – The death yesterday of Daniel Wultz, a Florida teenager critically injured last month in a suicide bombing at an Israeli restaurant, is a "gift from Allah" and revenge against American Jewish support for Israel, Abu Nasser, a leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, one of the groups responsible for the deadly blast, told WorldNetDaily. Abu Amin, a leader of the Islamic Jihad, which also took responsibility for the April 17 bombing in which Wultz was injured, told WND last night his terror group may target Americans...

Abbas integrates brigades Al-Aqsa in the services of safety The president of the Palestinian Authority ordered the integration of the brigades of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs within the Palestinian services of safety, indicated to Monday a person in charge for these services. "The decision was taken to integrate the members of the brigades of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs in the Palestinian services of safety. Abou Mazen (name of war of Mahmoud Abbas) required of us to make it as quickly as possible ", declared with the AFP this person in charge under cover for anonymity.

The president of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat drove out in the night of Wednesday to Thursday 21 persons in charge and activists of the Brigades of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs who had taken refuge in his headquarters of Ramallah, indicated one of them. "Yasser Arafat obliged us, twenty of my comrades of the Brigades of the Al-Aqsa martyrs and me, to leave Mouqataa", its HQ, indicated to the AFP Ali Barghouthi, one of the heads of this organization for the West Bank. The Brigades of the Al-Aqsa martyrs are a nebula of armed groups related to Fatah, the movement...

Palestinian Human Rights Activist: The Al-Aqsa Brigades Run Daily Life in the Cities, Threatening, Beating, and Killing In a recent article, Basem 'Eid, founder and director of the east-Jerusalem based Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group and former deputy director of the Israeli human rights group B'tselem, addressed the issue of the armed Palestinian gangs that terrorize the Palestinian populace in the PA territories on a daily basis. 'Eid set out proposals for restoring order, and suggested that the Palestinians ask for help from the governments of Egypt, Jordan, and possibly Turkey in ensuring security and protection for Palestinian citizens. The...

Oct. 29, 2003 Israeli couple wounded in shooting near Jenin By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH Photo: IDF An Israeli couple were wounded, the husband seriously, when a terrorist opened fire at their vehicle as they drove on the road leading to Kadim near Jenin in the northern West Bank on Wednesday afternoon. Location of Wednesday's shooting attack Seven bullets hit the vehicle, wounding Valeri Weissbrott seriously in the jaw and his wife Nelly who was lightly wounded from shrapnel and suffered from shock. It is the third time the couple have been shot at by terrorists in exactly the same location, but...

JERUSALEM, Aug 4 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades held Israel accountable for the killing of one of its cadres Monday, August 4, while claiming responsibility for Sunday gun attack on an Israeli car south of al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) that wounded four Israeli settlers. Israel claimed that Nihad Razeq Qassim, 27, was trying to lay a bomb to ambush an Israeli patrol, which shot him dead. "The man was shot dead by the soldiers (near the village of Farun, not far from Tulkarem) and a bomb of several kilograms was found beside him," Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted an...

The Brigades of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs announce the rupture of trêve Groups of the Brigades of the Martyrs of Al-Aqsa, related to Fatah but largely autonomous, announced to Saturday that they broke trêve in the attacks anti-Israelis, following the arrest of some their members by Palestinian safety. "We ordered to take again everywhere the attacks and in particular the operations of martyrs", announced in an official statement these groups armed in reference to the suicide missions in Israel. They indicated that the decision to break trêve had been made following the arrest of some their members by Palestinian safety....

JENIN, West Bank, November 28 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility Thursday, November 28, for the shooting attack in the northern Israeli town of Beit Shean in which six people were killed, including four Israelis, with Israel threatening tough response. In an anonymous call to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the caller said the Al-Aqsa Brigades, an armed offshoot of Fatah movement, had carried out the shooting and grenade attack on a Likud party polling station In Beit Shean to avenge the death of two resistance leaders in Jenin two days ago. Alaa Sabbagh, 25, the local leader...

TULKAREM, West Bank - The man ignored the two Palestinian women's prayers for forgiveness. Each time, he stood over them, put a gun to their foreheads and pulled the trigger. "Jarira," as he's called in the al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, doesn't look like a killer in his Giovanni T-shirt, faded blue jeans and Nike sneakers. But he is the executioner, and it's his job to kill anyone that the Palestinian terrorist group thinks is helping the Israelis. The married father of two doesn't like to talk about his work, but in a rare interview this week, the officer in...

TULKAREM, West Bank, Aug 25, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- The son of the first known Palestinian woman to be executed as an Israeli collaborator on Sunday said gunmen tortured him until he invented a story about his mother's involvement in a militant's death. Ikhlas Khouli, a 35-year-old mother of seven, was shot dead Saturday after being seized from her home in the West Bank city of Tulkarem. Bakir Khouli, 17, lifted up his T-shirt at his one-room house in Tulkarem on Sunday to reveal black and blue marks he said were made by electrical wires shortly before...

Breaking. Japanese headling says "USA Government Does Not Consider Arafat a Terorrist" Briefly attributes the stated policy to a 'high-level press spokesman' in the Bush Administration. (Probably Fleischer). Short dispatch in Japanese just now. Breaking fast.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States is taking steps to designate the Al Aqsa brigades, a Palestinian militia, as a foreign terrorist organization, Bush administration officials said Thursday. The brigades are linked to the Fatah faction of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The disclosure came hours after Al Aqsa claimed responsibility for a terrorist act in a Jerusalem shopping area in which a Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and two bystanders. At least 60 people were wounded. Secretary of State Colin Powell began taking steps to designate Al-Aqsa a foreign terrorist organization on Tuesday and notified Congress on Wednesday, said State...