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To: Ilaine who wrote (54407)	10/24/2002 10:59:03 AM
From: richardbt	Respond to of 281500

True. But it's by no means impossible as the IRA showed in London time and again (except they were less keen on killing themselves). Suicide car/van bombs loaded with home made explosives could do a lot of damage driven into public places. However, this is all kind of beside the point. Terrorist/liberation/self defence organisations (depending on your perspective) can usually finance themselves quite adequately from local donations and criminal activity unconnected to their primary goals. Certainly this is where the IRA got most of its funding (the cash the Americans used to send them was more important for purposes of morale than for actually funding the organisation). Anyway the Palestinians are, at least so far as they are concerned, fighting a war against an aggressive occupying power. If they have to make do with less funding and lower quality equipment then make do they shall. It will make no real difference to the conflict apart, perhaps, from shifting the balance even more in Israel's favour.