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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (99)	11/9/2001 7:09:32 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 32591

Hamas Weekly’s Ode to Anthrax 07 November 2001 A Hamas weekly, al-Risala, printed in Gaza, contains an ode to anthrax, penned by columnist Dr. ´Atallah Abu Al-Subh. Choice excerpts of the poetic prose appear below, with thanks to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI): “I will begin by saying: Oh Anthrax, despite your wretchedness, you have sown horror in the heart of the lady of arrogance, of tyranny, of boastfulness! Your gentle touch has made the U.S.´s life rough and pointless. You have filled the lady who horrifies and terrorizes the world with fear, and her feet almost fail to bear [her weight] in horror and fear of you. Because of you, she has lost confidence in the moment in which she lives, or in which she will live. “You have entered the most fortified of places - the White House - and they left it like horrified mice…you have turned all this into vanity, weakness, and wretchedness. “By Allah, are you really so deadly?! Do you not fear America´s intercontinental missiles? Do you not fear the torpedo missiles with nuclear warheads, and cluster bombs? …Do you not fear the lady of terror´s destroyers, that cross the Suez canal...? “This horror that you have sown - you, the delicate, the uncomplicated, the miserable - in the heart of the bloodsucker [the U.S.]... makes me think as I do. You do not come like a storm, but they see you as one; a terrible storm that destroys everything. They run from you in all directions and their tongues mumble, ´My life, my life.´ Our hearts, repressed, exiled, and oppressed, were filled with belief that Allah is capable of defeating America by means of the weakest of his earthly soldiers, after he used you to sow horror in their hearts... “You make the U.S. appease us, and hint to us at a rosy future and a life of ease... through a [new] Marshall Plan. Why? Because of our beautiful eyes? Or out of fear that we will turn into anthrax, and harm the apple of [the U.S.´s] eye and heart, Tel Aviv...? “In sound mind, I thank you and confess that I like you, I like you very much. May you continue to advance, to permeate, and to spread. If I may give you a word of advice, enter the air of those ´symbols,´ the water faucets from which they drink, and the pens with which they draft their traps and conspiracies against the wretched peoples... Turn the bodies of the tyrants into matches burning slowly and gradually, so that they understand that the truth belongs to Allah and that they should give those entitled to rights their rights.”

To: Scoobah who wrote (99)	11/9/2001 7:13:08 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

PA Official Calls for “War Against the Crusaders” 07 November 2001 The al-Aqsa Mosque, on the Temple Mount, was the site of a Friday sermon by Yusuf Abu Snena, an official of the Palestinian Ministry of Religious Affairs, which was also broadcast over the “Voice of Palestine” radio. He said that “the U.S. support for renewed Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and cities should serve as a lesson to those who shed tears for the American blood shed…” In a strange analogy, the preacher seemed to compare the Islamic nations currently under Western attack to Germany of World War I and World War II: “The attack on our Islamic allies seems to be a repetition of the First World War, reminding us of the cooperation between the heretics to bring down the German nation, which was destroyed by the heretic nations, thus giving those heretic and imperialistic nations the freedom to invade our Arab Muslim homelands. These heretic nations are once again attacking, like dogs, Muslim Afghanistan, and are fighting Islam everywhere… Imperialism is returning to Arab regions, through the guise of a ‘war on terror,’ and therefore the question must be asked: When the English and the French fought the Nazis, were they then also fighting terror or were they fighting Islam?” Therefore, concluded the PA official, “We urge all Muslims to unite in a war against the Crusaders, and that Allah will bring vengeance upon them.”