Hamas vows revenge
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The military wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas, the Ezzedin al-Qassam Brigades, has issued a statement promising to avenge the death of its founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. It says Israel would not have carried out the killing without US approval and threatens retaliation. Here is a translation of the statement:
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How easy it is to label one anti-semite or just plain put words that one have not written. And how grand it is to rejoice at the death of one person.
Sheikh Yassin was the founder of the Hamas, a palestinian militant group which has nothing to do with the war on Iraq or 9/11. I wouldn't line him up with Bin Ladden imo. The Hamas was never much a threat to the US interests, they are mostly fighting the Zionist invasion of their territory.I do not defend any terrorist action taken against the innocents, against anyone for that matter. But from Sharon's part, it was a cowardly act to blow up and old man in a wheelchair. To the eyes of the world, today, Ariel Sharon became a terrorist.
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak described it as cowardly and King Abdullah of Jordan called it a crime...Iranian officials said the killing would trigger an even bigger struggle against Israel and the US...European Union foreign ministers condemned what they called Israel's "extra-judicial killing...British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw described the assassination as "unacceptable" and "unjustified...French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said such acts could only "feed the spiral of violence...In Moscow, the Russian foreign ministry said it was "deeply concerned" at the assassination, which it feared would cause "a new wave of violence...An Australian foreign ministry spokesman also urged efforts to "try and prevent any further decline into violence".
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