http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20031208/wl_nm/mideast_hamas_dcA top official of Islamic group Hamas said Monday the recent lull in Palestinian militant suicide attacks against Israel was just a break between waves.
"The martyrdom operations come as waves so there are gaps between the waves," Hamas chief spokesman Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi told Reuters in an interview. "We are just in the period of a gap between waves."
A day after the collapse of talks among Palestinian factions on a complete cease-fire with Israel -- which Hamas opposed -- Rantissi said Palestinian militants were emboldened by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites)'s domestic woes and U.S. problems in Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites).
"Everything is changed. Locally, regionally and internationally," Rantissi, a co-founder of Hamas, said. "The problems of America and the situation of America in Iraq and Afghanistan has its effect on the situation in Palestine. I believe that Palestinian people are stronger than before."
Sworn to the destruction of Israel and at the forefront of a suicide bombing campaign, the radical Islamic group opposes the United States as the Jewish state's main ally.
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oookkkkk...then targeted killings will resume and hopefully
that bloodsucking Rantisi is first.
:nuke:
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