[tupac]

Does being the son of a known terrorist make one also a known terrrorist? Where is the proof that this guy was guilty of anything? Too many people here are enjoying this death without knowing how or why it happened, could it be that his own people did this because he was assisting Israel or other forces who are trying to thwart terrorism? Dance on, callous ones.

[eclectic]

Does being the son of a known terrorist make one also a known terrrorist?

Info to you: Jihad Jibril was the head of the military wing of PFLP... Got that?

[BlueLancer]

"...could it be that his own people did this because he was assisting Israel or other forces who are trying to thwart terrorism?"

And the downside to this is ... what? With a little luck, they'll start eating each other while the Israelis can and the rest of the world can watch their self-destruction.

200 years from now, I want their children's children's children's children to cower and cringe in fear whenever they hear the sounds of jet engines overhead because their legends tell of fire from the sky.

I want them to hide in dark caves and holes in the earth, shivering with terror whenever they hear the roar of diesel engines because the tales of their ancestors talk about metal monsters crawling over the earth, spitting death and destruction.

I want their mothers to be able to admonish them with "If you don't behave, the Pale Destroyers will come for you", and that will be enough to reduce them to quivering obesience.

I want the annihilation to be so complete that their mythology will tell them of the day of judgment when the stern gods from across the sea .. the powerful 'Mericans .. destroyed their forefathers' wickedness.

Kill them all ... nits make lice.
COL Chivington (Sand Creek)

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

Does being the son of a known terrorist make one also a known terrrorist?

didnt your parents warn you as a child about the company you keep

[tet68]

Cut the BLUE wire!

[Clean Sweep2]

"could it be that his own people did this because he was assisting Israel or other forces who are trying to thwart terrorism? "

Well this is unlikely and total speculation.

[TomGuy]

Explosion in Beirut Kills Son of Palestinian Guerrilla Leader

By Sam F. Ghattas Associated Press Writer
Published: May 20, 2002


BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The 38-year-old son of Palestinian guerrilla leader Ahmed Jibril was killed Monday in a Beirut car bombing, the group said.

Jihad Jibril was a senior commander of military operations in Lebanon for his father's faction of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, which is on the State Department list of terrorist organizations for its attacks on Israelis and its opposition to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

A somber-looking Ahmed Jibril accepted condolences at his office in Damascus, Syria, shortly after receiving the news but did not comment. An aide blamed "Israel alone." Ahmed Jibril's wife, Um Jihad, wept when told by telephone that her son was killed. News of the attack was first broadcast on radio and television in the Lebanese capital.

There was no immediate comment from Israel on charges it was behind the bombing.

PFLP-GC officials in Damascus would not immediately discuss what had happened. They said Jihad Jibril's body would be taken to Damascus for a funeral Tuesday.

Jibril's PFLP-GC is a small Syrian-based guerrilla group that rejected peace with Israel and opposed the Oslo process that started negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians after secret talks that concluded in 1993. Jibril and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have been enemies for at least two decades.

In one of its most notorious attacks, a PFLP-GC guerrilla landed a hang-glider near a military outpost in northern Israel in November 1987 and killed six soldiers with hand grenades and a machine gun before being killed himself.

Last month, the senior Jibril warned that suicide bombings against Israelis would continue in retaliation for Israeli military attacks.

However, the PFLP-GC has not claimed responsibility for suicide bombings since the latest violence erupted in September 2000. Last month, the PFLP-GC and two other rival groups each claimed to have blown up an Israeli tank in the Gaza Strip.

But the PFLP-GC was accused by Lebanese authorities of firing rockets across the Lebanese border into Israel in April at the height of the West Bank offensive and of seeking to launch more attacks on the Jewish state. Nine Palestinians who Lebanese authorities said belonged to the PFLP-GC have been arrested on charges of illegal possession of weapons and threatening national security.

Last year, Jibril acknowledged that his group had sent to the Palestinian territories a weapons shipment that was seized by the Israeli navy - and he promised more to come.

Monday's blast occurred at midday on a street off the busy shopping area of Corniche Mazraa in Beirut's Muslim sector.

A Lebanese police official at the scene, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the explosion was caused by a small stick of plastic explosive that was placed under the driver's seat of the Peugeot sedan.

The blast wrecked the car, shattering its windows and turning its front section into a twisted heap. Its white rear door had turned red with the victim's blood and flesh was scattered for a few yards around the car.

The blast also damaged neighborhood shops and parked cars but, apart from the driver, there were no other casualties.

Jihad Jibril was commander of military operations in Lebanon and a member of the PFLP-GC's executive committee leadership. He had taken military courses in Libya and had the rank of a lieutenant colonel. In addition to his military activities, he was in Lebanon studying law at a Beirut university. He is survived by his wife and two sons, 10-year-old Ahmed and 6-year-old Ali.

During the 1975-90 Lebanese civil war, car bombs were frequent in Lebanon as a way to settle scores among the various warring groups. But they had become rare as the government restored its authority across the country.

Most recently, a January car bomb killed Elie Hobeika, a former Cabinet minister and ex-militia leader, along with three bodyguards.

AP-ES-05-20-02 0855EDT

[ohioman]

I am sure, after your inane comments, that no one here will lose any sleep.

[ClancyJ]

Dance on, callous ones.

Yep, we get that way as we watch attack after attack on civilians. Why are only civilians supposed to suffer terrorist attacks? Maybe a few terrorists should also have to worry about having their guts blown all over the place.

[happygrl]

Dance on deluded one !! LOL!!

As if he was aiding Israel.

Thanks for the morning chuckle.

[cake_crumb]

"Dance on, callous ones"

Dance on what, the grave of a terrorist? Sure. If I were a man, I wouldn't bother DANCING in it....

[glaseatr]

I could care less "how or why" he died as you ask. You make the assumption he was killed. I believe that he had a "work related accident" or more to the point..He blew himself up transporting stuff he should not have been.

Good luck and good ridance to the scum bad arab.

[sakic]

could it be that his own people did this because he was assisting Israel or other forces who are trying to thwart terrorism? Dance on, callous ones.

In either case, let's dance!

[powderhorn]

Where is the proof that this guy was guilty of anything? Too many people here are enjoying this death without knowing how or why it happened, could it be that his own people did this because he was assisting Israel or other forces who are trying to thwart terrorism?

He was most likely taken out by Mossad, but in terror families you just never know. He might have been out of favor with his dad. Alexander The Great took out his own dad...The dad might have done it just to make sure that he didn't get Alexandered.

[kinghorse]

Tupac, wussup! I think calling this 40 year old the son of a radical is pretty funny and misleading. When I think of a son, I think of a kid or young adult. This clown was in his 40's. He's had plenty of time to carve his own nitch (and dig his own grave). Mebbe Reuters or whomever wishes to elicit sympathy where none is deserved.

[winner45]

Now, Jihad, is a good Arab.

[Ronin]

The PFLP took responsiblity for the homicide bombing of three days ago. Now the son of one of their leaders gets blowed-up real good.

Sounds like Mossad is playing hard ball here. They are letting the PFLP and the rest of the homicide-bomb jocks know that the price they will pay for a "successful" bombing will be VERY personal.

About time. They should have adopted this policy long ago.