Terror leader makes threats...'My goal is to kill Ariel Sharon'

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU 'My goal is to kill Ariel Sharon' Terror leader makes threats during ABC Radio segment

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: October 21, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern

In case he wasn't clear enough during an exclusive interview this week with WorldNetDaily in which he said his terror group would target the ranch of Israel's prime minister with rockets, the spokesman for a coalition of three Palestinian terror groups warned on an American radio show the same day his "first and foremost goal" is to kill Ariel Sharon.

Listen to ABC Radio's John Batchelor and WND's Jerusalem chief Aaron Klein conduct a live interview with Mohamed Abdel-Al aka Abu Abir, spokesman of the Popular Resistance Committees, a network of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorists.

The Committees has taken responsibility for many of the rockets fired at Israeli towns the past few years and for more than a dozen suicide attacks. It also was blamed for the bombing of a U.S. convoy in Gaza in October 2003, killing three Americans.

"I want to say the first and foremost goal is to kill Sharon. I want to make life hell for him because he made life hellish for Palestinians," Abdel-Al said during the segment, which aired Monday on the nationally syndicated John Batchelor Show.

The interview questions were translated live into Arabic and Abdel-Al's responses were translated back to English.

Batchelor and Klein also ask Abdel-Al about the American convoy attack and whether he was trying to embarrass Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas by committing attacks ahead of his visit with President Bush yesterday.

Abdel-Al's threats to Sharon came one day after the Israeli Defense Forces found a Qassam rocket just outside Sharon's Sycamore ranch, located a few kilometers from Sderot, the town at which more than 20 rockets were fired immediately following Israel's withdrawal from Gaza last month.

The Qassam rocket at the prime minister's ranch was found next to the grave site of Sharon's wife, Lili. IDF sappers said the attack took place three weeks ago, during the latest round of rocket fire at southern Israel from Gaza.

Abdel-Al told WND both his group and Hamas launched many rockets the past few weeks and he cannot confirm which batch hit near Sharon's ranch.

But he warned, "We shall use these rockets against Sderot, against Sharon's ranch and against every city in Israel any time there is need to do so. The Israelis shall wait for surprises from the Palestinian resistance. ... If there is need, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and everywhere in Israel can become our target. Israelis must also know that we have already transferred the knowledge and the technology of producing rockets to the West Bank."

Klein is a co-host of The John Batchelor Show, which began national syndication through the ABC Radio Network in March 2003 and can now be heard on more than 30 affiliate stations, including WABC 770 in New York, WMAL 630 in Washington, WKRO 680 in Boston and WWBA 1040 in Tampa.

And as usual, Abbas does nothing in response to this threat. If Abbas is interested in living in peace alongside Israel, then he would have definitely spoken up against this evil.

2 posted on 10/22/2005 10:25:13 AM PDT by anonymoussierra ("Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not of yourselves")

*sigh* And yet this adminstration still continues to kiss up to Abbas. Abbas and the whole PA/PLO need to be anhillated. Period.

3 posted on 10/22/2005 10:26:44 AM PDT by Paul_Denton (The U.S. should adopt the policy of Oom Shmoom: Israeli policy where no one gives a sh*t about U.N.)

Well appeasing them worked. What's their next plan.

That's one thing that I disagree with Pres. Bush on. Abbas isn't doing enough to get rid of terror, Bush says Abbas is a man devoted to peace.pffft!!

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5 posted on 10/22/2005 10:41:54 AM PDT by FeeinTennessee (http://hometown.aol.com/feereports/feepolitics.html)

I know. That and his unwillingness to do anything about the border. The way he courts Abbas is sickening. We and Israel need eachother more than ever and the adminstration's actions are driving us apart. I can only hope the US-Israel relationship survives this.

I read the article, just sick that he would actually say that about Abbas. Abbas is to peace like a Communist is to freedom.

6 posted on 10/22/2005 10:46:15 AM PDT by Paul_Denton (The U.S. should adopt the policy of Oom Shmoom: Israeli policy where no one gives a sh*t about U.N.)

It's a language problem. With those funny accents, we keep hearing "religion of peace" but it's really "religion of piss".

Threatening the life of a foreign leader is, as far as I'm concerned, all the justification needed to go on and kill this POS.

And it's not Israelis who've made life hell for the so-called "Palestinians". It's their arab and muslim "brothers" who've done that.

Bush says Abbas is a man devoted to peace.

Oh, he is: He wants a piece of Jerusalem, a piece of Haifa, a piece of the Galilee...

8 posted on 10/22/2005 12:49:26 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Texas State Motto: "Regular or Extra-Crispy?")

Hey Abbas, where are yyyyyoooouuuuu?????? Hey W, where are yyyyoooouuuu?????? Hey Tony, where are yyyyyoooouuuu??? Listen up, the land for peace and road map to h*ll aren't working. Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!

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