Chem warfare claimed in showdown at Gaza

WND ^ | 30 June 2006

[Aussie Dasher]

Has chemical warfare erupted in the Middle East?

A spokesman for Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip say they fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel.

"The Al Aqsa Brigades have fired one rocket with a chemical warhead" at southern Israel, Abu Qusai said, according to Reuters.

The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement.

There was no immediate comment on the claim from the Israeli army, except a military spokeswoman saying there was no detection that any such rocket was fired, nor any report of it striking territory in Israel.

Meanwhile, another Brigades member, Abu Ahmed, told Ynet News that Palestinian gunmen were seriously preparing for the incursion into Gaza by Israeli forces.

"In previous invasions the Israeli side absorbed heavy losses in armored personnel carriers and jeeps that blew up, but this time we promise that the losses on the Israeli side will be much larger. We are preparing suicide bombers, car bombs, tunnels, and booby-trapped donkeys. Everything that the Israelis encounter could turn out to be a deathtrap," he said.

On Monday, WorldNetDaily exclusively reported the threat by the Al Aqsa terror group that it would indeed attack Israelis with chemical and biological weapons the group has developed, according to a pamphlet distributed Sunday by the Brigades.

But sources in the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, speaking on condition of anonymity, said while the group is attempting to acquire biological and chemical agents, their current capabilities in the field still are mostly primitive.

"With the help of Allah, we are pleased to say that we succeeded in developing over 20 different types of biological and chemical weapons, this after a three-year effort," said the Al Aqsa statement, which was released yesterday and made national headlines here today.

"We say to (Prime Minister Ehud) Olmert and (Defense Minister Amir) Peretz: Your threats of invasion do not frighten us. We will surprise you with new weapons you have not faced until now. As soon as an IDF soldier sets foot on Gazan land, we will respond with a new weapon."

The group claimed it was working to add chemical and biological agents to missiles that are regularly launched from the Gaza Strip aimed at nearby Jewish communities.

The Al Aqsa Brigades, the declared "resistance wing" of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party, is responsible for scores of suicide bombings, shooting attacks and rockets launched from Gaza.

Israeli security officials told WND Al Aqsa's claim of developing more than 20 kinds of chemical and biological agents is "rhetoric." They said Israel has information the group in the past has conducted low-level experiments adding some kinds of chemicals, including cyanide, to suicide belts, but that Palestinian groups currently don't have "serious" chemical or biological capabilities.

They also said Palestinian terror groups currently do not have capabilities to add chemical or biological agents to missiles but that there was a fear some countries, particularly Iran, may be assisting in such efforts.

Sources in the Al Aqsa Brigades told WND the group was experimenting with chemical agents. They claimed they currently have in their weapons arsenal certain agents that can be thrown or shot at civilians in canisters, but they declined to name the specific agents.

One Al Aqsa source said the group's work in Gaza so far has been limited mostly to Al Aqsa members who are studying chemistry at local universities where biological agents are not available and chemical agents are limited.

They said "outside parties" were helping the group add agents to missiles, but would not comment on the current status of the program or name the outside parties.

Palestinian terror groups in the past have discussed adding chemical and biological agents to suicide bomb belts. Mahmoud Abu Tir, a Hamas legislator, was arrested by Israel in the early 1990s and accused of plotting to poison Israeli water supplies.

In a recent WND interview, Abu Tir refused to confirm or deny he was involved in the plot. In 2002, Israeli security forces foiled a plan by Hamas to poison the soda fountain in a popular Jerusalem cafe.

[Aussie Dasher]

Time to get SERIOUS with these creatures!

[middie]

If Israel is the recipient of a chemical weapon I predict that all restaint will be ignored and the Gaza hdqs of the bad guys --as well as in Syria and the dogs of war loose.

[Mr. Mojo]

They've been claiming this for the past 24 hours. Did it actually happen? Doubtful. If it did, it was the infant of all chem attacks.

[LtKerst]

All Hamas Cabinet Members arrested should be held untill it is verified that there is no danger from Chemical weapons, if there is any casualties..all get the death penalty. every single one and their homes bulldozed. that is the price.

Period.

[Liberty1970]

There's something pathetic about needing to TELL people that you used a "weapon of mass destruction." I mean, shouldn't it have been obvious? If we couldn't even tell that they used one, then obviously it's nothing to shake in our boots about.

[GSlob]

If one is not changing his underwear for 3 years [the time they say it took them to develop these], the said underwear becomes a stupendously potent bio/chem weapon. Don't even think of getting downwind from it, if you value yor life.

[Diogenesis]

SoS Condi Rice regarding the threats to use chemical weapons against the Israelis ......[.... sounds of crickets]

SoS Condi Rice regarding the repeated beheadings and murders of valiant Marines, soldiers, airmen and seamen ......[.... sounds of crickets]

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SoS Condi Rice to the Jews mourning for those murdered by terrorists, "More Restraint! (and die quietly)".

========= Jerusalem =========

In Jerusalem, Israel, at the funeral of Jewish settler Eliahu Asehri in Jerusalem, Thursday, June 29, 2006
murdered by Palestinian and Hamas and Fatah terrorists, each funded by the EU, the UN and US State Dept.

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SoS Condi Rice to the terrorists, "Murder all the Christians, Jews, and American you want.
More money from stupid docile US taxpayers is on the way to you at this very moment. "

========= Ramallah =========

In Hebron and Ramallah, Hamas terrorists demand more murders.

[processing please hold]

It wouldn't matter if it was only a microbe of a wmd. They would have introduced wmd war fare. Time to level them.

[RDTF]

ping

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Told ya so.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

And even called Reuters as the source ;)

[MHGinTN]

This assertion tells me all I need to know to identify their god as the murderer from the start: "With the help of Allah, we are pleased to say that we succeeded in developing over 20 different types of biological and chemical weapons ..." Their allah is a demon; these demon servants need to be carpet bombed.

[RDTF]

I hope that if they did in fact do this it not only becomes public but published by the UN, etc appropriately.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

it not only becomes public but published by the UN

You must be joking. The Useless Nations will claim that the USA and Israel botched the investigation by contaminating the site with chemicals and biohazards. I am not a betting man, yet just wait and see how it gets the spin.

[RDTF]

oh I am sure you are right. But this claim (even if that is all it turns out to be) is very relevant to the war on terror and our justification for it. These barbarians/terrorists will be reckless with WMDs and we have to prevent them from getting their slimy hands on them.

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[Convert from ECUSA]

ROFL!

[Convert from ECUSA]

Amen! Extremely serious!

[Sender]

booby-trapped donkeys

Now if that isn't an IED, I don't know what is. Where is PETA when you need them?