Ruling Palestinian Hamas group mourns Zarqawi

[ECH1969]

The ruling Palestinian faction Hamas on Thursday deplored the killing by U.S. warplanes of the al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, describing him as a casualty of a crusade against Arabs and Muslims.

Hamas, branded as a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union and shunned by the West since winning office in the Palestinian government in March, had distanced itself in the past from violence abroad blamed on al Qaeda.

But in a statement faxed to Reuters after Zarqawi was killed in a U.S. air strike north of Baghdad on Wednesday, Hamas said it mourned the Jordanian-born insurgent as a "martyr of the (Muslim Arab) nation."

"With hearts full of faith, Hamas commends brother-fighter Abu Musab ... who was martyred at the hands of the savage crusade campaign which targets the Arab homeland, starting in Iraq," the statement said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060608/wl_nm/iraq_zarqawi_hamas_dc_1

[BayCityProgressive]

1. well isnt

that just lovely?? Scary that some support these terrorist pigs over Israel

[Terran1212]

3. More like "some support" peacemakers and not the terrorists of Israel or

Palestine

[Poll_Blind]

2. Disinfo. See inside for link.

See here.

PB

[Violet_Crumble]

4. Thanks for posting that, PB...

Though I suspect it'll be pointedly ignored by some folk here :)

[Terran1212]

5. I'd never heard of any link between Hamas and Zarqawi's people

as is.

[Imajika]

6. Thanks for posting that..

I had heard reported in several places that Hamas was "mourning" the death of Zarqawi too.

Appreciate your posting the correction.