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

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (7466)	9/1/2004 8:13:42 AM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

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

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (7466)	9/1/2004 8:23:56 AM
From: rrufff	Respond to of 32591

YIPPEE!!!! WE CAN KILL INNOCENT CIVLIANS!!!! Israel targeting Hamas leaders again after bombings Militant groups want to claim victory in any withdrawal, but Israel's army is intent on smashing them before leaving. In Tuesday's attack, the bombers boarded buses near Beersheba's central bus station and detonated bombs hidden under their clothes within minutes of each other. A three-year-old boy was among the 16 dead. More than 80 people were wounded. Cheering in the streets of the Gaza Strip after the bombings, thousands of Hamas supporters threw sweets into the air and sang songs after the attack. "Revenge is so sweet," said one Hamas activist at a rally. After sealing off the West Bank city of Hebron, Israeli troops on Wednesday blew up the first floor of a two-storey home where one of the bombers lived. An army spokeswoman said the routine response to suicide bombings was a message "that anyone who is party to terrorism will pay a price." International human rights groups condemn the Israeli practice as collective punishment. Also in response to the bombings, Sharon has called for work to begin in the area bordering on southern Israel on the massive barrier it is building on West Bank land. Israel says the barrier has prevented scores of attacks. Palestinians denounce it as a grab of the land they seek for statehood. The World Court has ruled the barrier is illegal. (Additional reporting by Megan Goldin and Allyn Fisher-Ilan in Jerusalem, Haitham Tamimi in Hebron and Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza) Printed From HindustanTimes.com