<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Jan 30 2007, 04:48 AM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Jan 30 2007, 04:48 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Tuesday January 30, 06:12 AM
<b>Palestinians strike Eilat, Gaza rages on</b>
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Islamic Jihad and <b>al-Aqsa Martyrs</b> Brigades claimed responsibility for what was the first suicide attack in the Red Sea tourist town, and named a 21-year-old from Gaza as the bomber. Israeli police said he infiltrated from Egypt.
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Islamic Jihad and the Aqsa brigades said the <b>bombing was a response to Israeli "attempts to defile al-Aqsa mosque" in Jerusalem, a reference to recent archaeological excavations. Israeli officials said the work had not damaged the shrine.</b>
"The heroic operation announces the beginning of a series of operations in defence of al-Aqsa mosque and it was a natural response to savage aggression by the occupation (Israel)," the two groups said in a statement.
A spokesman for the Aqsa brigades, part of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, identified the suicide bomber as Mohammad Faisal Siksik, 21, from Gaza City, a member of the brigades' Army of Believers.
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Why are the Faithful suiciding themselves over an imagined desecration of their al-Aqsa mosque?
http://xtramsn.co.nz/technology/0,,13441...95,00.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Israeli Dig Near Shrine Caught On Webcam</b>
17/02/2007 09:37 AM
Reuters
Israel has installed Internet cameras near an archaeological excavation close to a Jerusalem shrine that had sparked Muslim protests, in a bid to show the work does not harm the holy site, officials said on Thursday.
Streaming video of several angles of the dig site were seen on Israel's Antiquities Authority's Web site (http://www.antiquities.org.il).
"The Antiquities Authority invites the public in the country and in the world to monitor the excavations up close and to see what is being done on the ground at any given time," the group's spokeswoman, Osnat Goaz, said in a statement.
The dig is meant to clear the way for the construction of a walkway to the complex known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as Temple Mount. Officials say the archaeological work is likely to take at least eight months to complete.
The excavations near the compound began last week and touched off protests and stone-throwing by Palestinians and raised <b>Muslim fears</b> al-Aqsa mosque at the compound would be harmed.
(Far more than fears, unless 'muslim fears' actually translates as 'death and destruction of kafirs'.)
Israel denies any harm would come to the mosque or the Dome of the Rock that stand on the site of two destroyed biblical Jewish Temples.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said during a visit to Ankara on Thursday that he had invited Turkish authorities to visit the dig. Goaz said the excavations are taking place Sunday to Thursday, from 0430 to 1230 GMT.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Meanwhile, won't the j-hadis go and bomb their superiors in Saudi Arabia who are destroying 'historic' Mohammed-related and other holy islamic sites?
<b>Palestinians strike Eilat, Gaza rages on</b>
[...]
Islamic Jihad and <b>al-Aqsa Martyrs</b> Brigades claimed responsibility for what was the first suicide attack in the Red Sea tourist town, and named a 21-year-old from Gaza as the bomber. Israeli police said he infiltrated from Egypt.
[...]
Islamic Jihad and the Aqsa brigades said the <b>bombing was a response to Israeli "attempts to defile al-Aqsa mosque" in Jerusalem, a reference to recent archaeological excavations. Israeli officials said the work had not damaged the shrine.</b>
"The heroic operation announces the beginning of a series of operations in defence of al-Aqsa mosque and it was a natural response to savage aggression by the occupation (Israel)," the two groups said in a statement.
A spokesman for the Aqsa brigades, part of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, identified the suicide bomber as Mohammad Faisal Siksik, 21, from Gaza City, a member of the brigades' Army of Believers.
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Why are the Faithful suiciding themselves over an imagined desecration of their al-Aqsa mosque?
http://xtramsn.co.nz/technology/0,,13441...95,00.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Israeli Dig Near Shrine Caught On Webcam</b>
17/02/2007 09:37 AM
Reuters
Israel has installed Internet cameras near an archaeological excavation close to a Jerusalem shrine that had sparked Muslim protests, in a bid to show the work does not harm the holy site, officials said on Thursday.
Streaming video of several angles of the dig site were seen on Israel's Antiquities Authority's Web site (http://www.antiquities.org.il).
"The Antiquities Authority invites the public in the country and in the world to monitor the excavations up close and to see what is being done on the ground at any given time," the group's spokeswoman, Osnat Goaz, said in a statement.
The dig is meant to clear the way for the construction of a walkway to the complex known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as Temple Mount. Officials say the archaeological work is likely to take at least eight months to complete.
The excavations near the compound began last week and touched off protests and stone-throwing by Palestinians and raised <b>Muslim fears</b> al-Aqsa mosque at the compound would be harmed.
(Far more than fears, unless 'muslim fears' actually translates as 'death and destruction of kafirs'.)
Israel denies any harm would come to the mosque or the Dome of the Rock that stand on the site of two destroyed biblical Jewish Temples.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said during a visit to Ankara on Thursday that he had invited Turkish authorities to visit the dig. Goaz said the excavations are taking place Sunday to Thursday, from 0430 to 1230 GMT.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Meanwhile, won't the j-hadis go and bomb their superiors in Saudi Arabia who are destroying 'historic' Mohammed-related and other holy islamic sites?