Hamas Leader Vows 'Earthshaking' Revenge

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Mar 27, 9:59 PM (ET)

By HUSSEIN DAKROUB

(AP) Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah guerrilla group, speaks during a Hezbollah rally held...
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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Israel faces an "earthquake" of revenge for killing Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the militant group's Syrian-based leader said Saturday.

Yassin, a quadriplegic, was killed in an Israeli missile attack Monday as he was being wheeled out of a Gaza mosque. Israel has accused him of planning attacks that have killed hundreds of Israelis.

"I say with absolute certainty that the assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin will cause an earthquake to the Zionists," Khaled Mashaal told Dubai-based TV station Al-Arabiya. He said the revenge "will spare no targets."

Mashaal, who heads Hamas' political bureau, also criticized the United States for vetoing a U.N. Security Council resolution Friday condemning Israel for killing Yassin, but said his group will not attack U.S. targets in the Middle East.


He warned, however, http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040328/D81J3V201.html

edit to fix linky

[burrowowl]

1. Link directly to article

at AP site for instance. All one gets is sorry can,t link to you want to register with excite, NO, I don't.

[hang a left]

2. I fixed it now. Have a looky.

n/t

[burrowowl]

4. Thank you

this has already happened a couple of times.
Your posts are important, make sure in the future one gets to the posted article and not the sign-up page.

[Chicago Democrat]

3. The Endless Cycle of Vile Lense Continues....

Yuch.

[dfong63]

5. Israel has committed over 300 so-called "targeted killings" since 2000

... according to this article.

where's the world outrage? this is like death squads, only worse.

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6. locking

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