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shira

(30,109 posts)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 10:01 AM Aug 2012

Released Hamas Terrorist Ahlam Tamimi on Palestinian Public's Delight at Suicide Bombings

Following are excerpts from an interview with released Hamas terrorist Ahlam Tamimi, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on July 12, 2012.

Ahlam Tamimi: 16 Zionists were killed (in the suicide bombing you helped carry out).

Interviewer: Was the sound of the explosion...?

Ahlam Tamimi: It was very loud. The mujahid Abdallah Barghouti did a perfect job producing the guitar [containing the bomb], and the results amazed everybody, thanks to Allah.

[...]

Afterwards, when I took the bus, the Palestinians around Damascus Gate [in Jerusalem] were all smiling. You could sense that everybody was happy. When I got on the bus, nobody knew that it was me who had led [the suicide bomber to the target]... I was feeling quite strange, because I had left [the bomber] 'Izz Al-Din behind, but inside the bus, they were all congratulating one another. They didn't even know one another, yet they were exchanging greetings.

[...]

Video:
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3539.htm

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