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Hamas threatens 'painful death'
By Associated Press
Published March 26, 2004
BEIRUT, Lebanon - The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas on Thursday threatened "an earthshaking response" against Israel for the assassination of its founder, Sheik Ahmed Yassin.
The threat was made by the group's military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, in a videotape broadcast by the Al-Arabiya satellite channel.
The tape showed two masked men standing behind five tall rockets, the kind of missile that Hamas guerrillas use to hit Israeli towns. One man is reading a statement.
"Oh, masses of our Arab and Islamic nation, the sons of the struggling and steadfast Palestinian people in Palestine," the statement said, "the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades promise you that they will carry out a strong, earthshaking response and make the sons of monkeys and pigs taste a painful death in retaliation for the blood of our struggling people and the blood of our leaders, at the top of whom is the holy warrior and martyr Sheik Ahmed Yassin."
[Last modified March 26, 2004, 01:20:43]
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