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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East?
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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (7466)9/1/2004 8:13:42 AM
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Hamas leaders, "We will send other people's children to kill innocent civilians. We're not afraid, we're hiding!!"

Israel targeting Hamas leaders again after bombings


Top Hamas officials in Gaza, Mahmoud al-Zahar and Ismail Haniyeh, have gone underground since Israel began tracking and killing members of the group's upper echelons. Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal, who survived an Israeli assassination attempt in Jordan in 1997, is based in Damascus.

The Beersheba bombings were the Islamic group's bloody revenge for the assassinations of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in March and Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi in April, which followed a suicide attack that killed 10 people in the Israeli port of Ashdod.

Tuesday's attacks shattered a period of relative calm inside Israel, showing that Hamas - sworn to destroy the Jewish state - was not a spent force despite Israel's repeated strikes on its infrastructure and the building of a West Bank barrier.

"These new threats of assassinations will frighten neither Hamas nor our people," said Hamas spokesman Mushir al-Masri. "It is an open war and as long as Israeli crimes continue...we will have no choice but to defend our people by all means available."

GAZA PULLOUT PLAN

Sharon's far-right critics said the bus bombings showed the folly of his plan to evacuate all 21 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, a move they have called a "reward for terror".

Sharon pledged a steadfast battle against militants but said he would be undeterred in carrying out his Gaza pullout plan, which also faces opposition in his own right-wing Likud party.

hindustantimes.com
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