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Reuters. 16 April 2002. Iraqi clerics decree suicide bombings are virtuous. BAGHDAD -- Iraqi Muslim religious leaders decreed on Tuesday that suicide bombings by Palestinians against Israelis were a virtuous act of holy war, or jihad. "According to the texts of the holy Koran and the Prophet's teachings... Muslim clerics in Iraq view the suicide bombings carried out by the fighters in Palestine to do harm to the criminal Zionists as representing the highest degree of jihad," read a fatwa or religious decree issued by the clerics. "Muslim clerics in Iraq bless these suicidal acts and call upon all Muslim clerics to support and back the fighters with their fatwas," said the decree. The state news agency INA, which carried the fatwa, said it had been issued at a meeting of clerics in Baghdad on Tuesday. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was quoted by newspapers on Tuesday as saying that "all means are legitimate for a people whose land has been usurped." [N.B.] "Palestinians are not killing themselves out of despair but they are turning themselves into bombs because they lack bombs and weapons," Saddam was quoted as saying during a meeting with officials and engineers on Monday. [N.B.] "If they had planes, artillery, tanks and missiles they would not need to turn their bodies into bombs or missiles." Saddam last year called on Arab countries neighbouring Israel to provide Palestinians with weapons. Baghdad said last month it was raising payments to the relatives of each Palestinian killed in clashes with Israeli troops from $10,000 per family to $25,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
