Hamas Vows Escalation After Using Female Bomber

Reuters ^ | 1/14/04

[kattracks]

GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian militant group Hamas said it used a woman suicide bomber for the first time on Wednesday to counter Israeli security precautions and vowed to escalate attacks in a more than three-year-old uprising. "For the first time (Hamas) used a female fighter and not a male fighter and that was a new development in resistance against the enemy," Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin told Reuters, referring to a bomber who struck at Erez crossing point on the Gaza Strip boundary with Israel, killing four Israelis.

Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed offshoot of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, jointly claimed responsibility for the attack, identifying the bomber as a 22-year-old mother of two from Gaza City.

The Brigades and Hamas' kindred group Islamic Jihad have used women bombers in the past.

Witnesses said Wednesday's bomber set off a metal detector at a terminal used to screen Palestinian labourers en route to Erez industrial zone. She told soldiers she had a metal splint in her leg and then detonated her explosives, witnesses said.

"Resistance will escalate against this enemy (Israel) until they leave our land and homeland," Yassin said.

Sworn to Israel's destruction, Hamas has spearheaded a Palestinian uprising that erupted in the West Bank and Gaza in September 2000. Its attacks have tapered off in recent months, a fact Israeli officials attribute to army crackdowns in the occupied territories.

[tet68]

Reuters! No mention of the four Palestinan civilians killed.

[Diogenesis]

The innocent murdered mean NOTHING to terroristophilic Reuters and AP militant writers.

Hamas terrorists are called "militants".

[DooDahhhh]

What a bunch of A**wipes!

[af_vet_1981]

Hunt down the terrorists. Kill them.

[AAABEST]

I'm wondering why this isn't getting more attention.

[johnb838]

Ha. I heard a story on Fox about hamas and female murder/suicide bombers the other day and they quoted hamas leadership as saying they didn't want to use them because a Jew might see a female body part (flying across the room). Disgusting. I wonder, though, whether it means recruiting isn't going well if they have to let the girlz play.

[VRWCmember]

Remember the Benson and Hedges "You've come a long way baby" cigarette ad campaign targeted to womyn? No the palis can do the same thing.

[SunkenCiv]

	Palestinian Religious Terrorism: Hamas and Islamic Jihad by Yonah Alexander
The forces of Imperialism in both the Capitalist West and the Communist East support the enemy with all their might, in material and human terms, taking turns between themselves. When Islam appears, all the forces of Unbelief unite to confront it, because the Community of Unbelief is one. (p 62, from Article 22 of the Charter of the Hamas)

According to Article 22, "the forces of Unbelief" control huge material wealth, and have used that to take control of the world media, press, broadcasting, etc, supported the French and Commie revolutions, and created secret societies like the Freemasons, Rotary, Lions Club, B'nai B'rith, etc. Gee, guess Jew they're talking about. ;')

Hamas, like the PLO and Islamic Jihad -- and the Grand Mufti who led them prior to and during WWII -- continue the Nazi agenda.

[kazatzkeh]

the best response is:

drop dummy bombs on mecca and medina, with a warning next time one of the kooks sets off a bomb medina is dust, then mecca.

[SunkenCiv]

or, skip the warning. ;')