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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (171554)	6/28/2006 10:05:12 PM
From: RinConRon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

Inviting the Hammers of Hell 101 Gaza militants say fired chemical-tipped warhead 23 minutes ago A spokesman for gunmen in the Gaza Strip said they had fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel early on Thursday. The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the claim by the spokesman from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement. The group had recently claimed to possess about 20 biological warheads for the makeshift rockets commonly fired from Gaza at Israeli towns. This was the first time the group had claimed firing such a rocket. "The al-Aqsa Brigades have fired one rocket with a chemical warhead" at southern Israel, Abu Qusai, a spokesman for the group, said in Gaza. An Israeli military spokeswoman said the army had not detected that any such rocket was fired, nor was there any report of such a weapon hitting Israel.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (171554)	6/28/2006 10:12:27 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793914

In the background behind the kidnapped soldier saga is the fact that Hamas seems to have more or less agreed to recognize Israel. This is huge if it is sincere, but that is a very, very big if. The kidnapping alongside the recognition suggests that Hamas is deeply divided, that one faction may want to fight while the other wants to negotiate. This division bodes badly for the young man, IMO. He may very well be killed. All hell will break loose if he does, and the less extremist Hamas faction will lose whatever intrasquad squabble might be going on. OTOH, it is quite possible that the "recognition" is a fraud, to be used only to blame the Israelis when their terrible attack happens if the kid is killed.