History Forum / General / British History / June 2006

Really, Really Stupid of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades -- If True.

My previously mentioned scenario may well be playing out.

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"Gaza militants say fired chemical-tipped warhead"

"GAZA (Reuters) - A spokesman for gunmen in the Gaza Strip said they had
fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel early on Thursday.

The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the claim by the spokesman from
the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas's Fatah movement.

The group had recently claimed to possess about 20 biological warheads for
the makeshift rockets commonly fired from Gaza at Israeli towns. This was
the first time the group had claimed firing such a rocket.

"The al-Aqsa Brigades have fired one rocket with a chemical warhead" at
southern Israel, Abu Qusai, a spokesman for the group, said in Gaza.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said the army had not detected that any such
rocket was fired, nor was there any report of such a weapon hitting Israel."
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