HAMAS - We have enough suicide bombers for 20 years

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We have enough suicide bombers to last 20 years: Hamas

The hardline Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas, which killed 25 Israelis in less than 24 hours, has enough suicide bombers to last another 20 years, a senior Hamas leader said today.

"We have the means to resist and offer up martyrs for another 20 years," Khaled Meshaal, the group's political leader, said at a Palestinian refugee camp in a suburb of Damascus.

"At the final count, we will be victors, because the enemy cannot stand the losses," he said at an "iftar", the meal which breaks the dawn-to-dusk fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

"Our goal is to make the cost of the occupation too high for the occupier," he said.

Meshaal blasted Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's condemnation of the suicide attacks in Jerusalem and the northern city of Haifa that killed 24 Israelis and also left at least 210 wounded.

A 25th Israeli was gunned down in the Gaza Strip today.

"The resistance is not protected, because others (Palestinians) destroy what it does through their cooperation (with Israel). But we will not give in and we will pursue resistance," he said.

He vowed Hamas "would overcome pressure" from the Palestinian Authority.

"Resistance is the shortest path to freedom. Negotiations and compromise lead to the loss of rights," he said. "We will liberate Palestine, all of Palestine. We will recover Jerusalem. It is not a dream. It is reality."

Meshaal said the suicide operations are not planned from abroad. "The mujahideen (Islamic warriors) train, organise and execute their operations on the field of battle," he insisted.

AFP

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001

Answers

They have made pretty inefficient use of their suicide bombers. Not like OBL's 9/11 crew.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001

I wish they'd have a sort of group meeting somewhere. You know, draw straws to see who went kaboom next. That way, they would be in one central spot to take out all at once.

A girl can wish can't she?

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001


". . .enough suicide bombers to last 20 years. . ."

Oh, I'm sure there are at least 20 loonies who are willing to blow themselves up for the cause. That's one/year.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001


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