The bombers from Britain

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Shortly before their suicide mission, these men proclaim on video: 'It is an honour to kill'
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
09 March 2004


Two British suicide bombers are shown rejoicing at the prospect of killing Israelis in a videotape made before their deaths last year and released yesterday by the militant Palestinian group Hamas.

Asif Hanif, from Hounslow, south-west London, and Omar Khan Sharif, from Derby, are seen wearing military fatigues as they seek to justify in Arabic and English the lethal attack which they were about to make on a Tel Aviv club last year.

Three people were killed and 55 injured in the attack when Hanif, 22, who was of Pakistani descent, blew himself up at Mike's Place on 30 April. In the videotape, Hanif says: "What can I say? The real terrorists are these Israelis. They're really sickos ... Muslims are being killed every day. It is an honour to kill one of those people ." Hanif also recites traditional Koranic verses and calls on Muslims everywhere to be "people of action".

Sharif, 27, who was married with two children, fled the scene after failing to detonate his bomb. His body was later washed up on the shore in Tel Aviv. Clutching an AK-47 rifle, he says in Arabic: "We wanted to offer our souls for the sake of Allah and to get revenge against the Jews and Crusaders."

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link: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=499376

[Palestine]

1. Dennis Kucinich is a good man. Good to see he is not forgotten.