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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (12457)	3/8/2002 12:39:50 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

wrapping up the whole 911 boodle as a "suicide-only" >>> You are correct they did not get Bin Laden yet, but they have done great Job in dismantling his organisation, plus they only had few-months....You think it is easy?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (12457)	3/8/2002 8:00:33 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

A little friendly fire to stir up the masses? Nobody would ever do that! -g- March 6, 2002 Berezovsky Fingers Putin in Bombings counterpunch.org New allegations are made today that the Russian state has been sponsoring acts of terrorism which have killed hundreds of innocent Russian citizens in order to create a pretext for Russia's ongoing war in Chechnya, and to justify a crackdown on civil liberties and press freedoms inside Russia. <continued>

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (12457)	3/8/2002 8:16:16 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Gus. Here ya go, another arab youth taught to hate and kill innocent people, you are just one of the many millions who cheer on these kids to even greater mass murders, these young people grow up to be full fledge terrorists, but they need a cheering section to keep them going. Palestinian Killed Young Jews Out of Long-Held Dream for Revenge By Ibrahim Barzak Associated Press Writer Published: Mar 8, 2002 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - From his backyard, the young Palestinian grew up watching Israeli soldiers move in and out of Gaza. He hurled rocks at them as a boy. When he was 10, his rage overflowed at the death of a friend, and then came a yearning for revenge. On Thursday, 19-year-old Mohammed Farhat clipped a hole in a fence and sneaked into a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, where he shot and killed four Jewish students as they prayed and incinerated another in his bed by tossing a hand grenade. Shot dead by soldiers while trying to escape, Farhat is now revered as a holy Muslim martyr by friends and family. The thin, tall Farhat grew up in an old neighborhood of downtown Gaza City, from where he could see the Nahal Oz crossing point into Israel. He watched Israeli soldiers there daily, moving freely past his neighborhood. A boyhood friend said Farhat grew angry and troubled and began searching for a mission, for meaning. "Day by day the question mark in our minds became bigger," said the friend, Maamoun Abu Kadum. Soon, the two of them, then just boys, joined the first Palestinian uprising, known in Arabic as the intefadeh - street battles that lasted six years, ending in 1993. They threw rocks at soldiers with other boys and helped older fighters hide. One of the older guys was Imad Aqel, a leader of an underground armed branch of the Islamic Resistance Movement known as Hamas, and he found a home with Farhat's family. In December 1993, Aqel was gunned down by Israeli troops at Farhat's home. "On that day he took me and showed me the blood of Imad and he said, 'He was a hero and I hope one day I will become like him,'" Abu Kadum said. Farhat started going to mosque, praying and took up an avid study of the Quran, Islam's holy book. He perfected his song-like chanting of prayers and kept a copy of the Quran tucked into his pocket. When a new uprising began 17 months ago, he was especially angered by images of injured and dead Palestinian children and promised to take revenge. Farhat joined Hamas and got his chance. His targets were about his age, equally devoted to the study of religion and were also training to become fighters. Dozens of teen-age boys were studying Jewish religious texts in a fluorescent-lit hall in the Atzmona Jewish settlement in southern Gaza just before midnight when the rattle of Farhat's assault rifle silenced their prayers. The bullets ripped through the teen-agers' bodies, spraying blood onto walls and white tile floors. Farhat charged from room to room attacking the students. He tossed a grenade into one bedroom in a trailer, killing a student in his bed and leaving the room a scorched shell of gray ash. About 150 students live in the settlement and study at a religious military school there. The five who were killed had been slated to become army officers. Thousands of mourners came to a Jerusalem cemetery and buried three of the dead. Among the mourners were fellow students, some of them injured in the attack. One limping man was helped by friends. Yonatan Sinclair, 18, a friend of one of the dead students, Asher Marcus, said the group was devoted to seminary studies and was excited about joining the army, often organizing parties to celebrate the occasion when one became a soldier. Marcus was "very simple, very loving ... always smiling, never angry," Sinclair said. In Gaza, Abu Kadum was mourning the loss of his boyhood friend. "I wish that I was with him. He is lucky," Abu Kadum said. "He succeeded in carrying out his mission. We ask God to grant him an honored place in heaven, because he deserves it." ap.tbo.com