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MILITANT LEADERS CELEBRATE BLASTS
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press Writer


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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) . Palestinians in refugee camps across Lebanon fired
rifles into the air Sunday to celebrate a series of anti-Israeli suicide
attacks that killed more than two dozen people.

After news emerged of the bombings in Jerusalem and the northern Israeli city
of Haifa, refugees in at least six camps in Lebanon celebrated in the
streets, Lebanese security officials said on condition of anonymity.

``These great achievements restore the spirit of victory and jihad to the
people and the nation,'' said Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, leader of the
Syrian-based Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad.

Another extremist group, Hamas, claimed responsibility for the wave of
attacks. The suicide bombings . one Sunday against a Haifa bus and another
Saturday night in a Jerusalem pedestrian mall . killed 25 people, along with
an Israeli slain in a gun attack on cars in the Gaza Strip.

The refugee camps in Lebanon, like others in Syria and Jordan, are populated
by Palestinians who lost their homes in Israel during the 1948 war and their
descendants.

The attacks, which also injured nearly 200 people, came as a U.S. envoy was
in the region trying to forge an Israeli-Palestinian truce after more than 14
months of fighting.

``The Americans have come to the region with one goal . an Israeli goal . to
liquidate the intefadeh (uprising) and resistance,'' Shallah said in comments
to Lebanon Hezbollah's al-Manar Television.

Shallah said the series of attacks was motivated by Israeli killings of
militant Palestinian leaders, in particular the Nov. 23 slaying of a top
Hamas militant in the West Bank, Mahmoud Abu Hanoud.

``The death of a commander will lead to the emergence of tens of commanders
who will horrify the enemy and make them feel the pain like last night and
today,'' he said.

Egypt and Jordan called for and end to Israeli-Palestinian violence.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said that his country deplores all violence
against innocent people and that ``there is no alternative but to return to
negotiations and dialogue.''

Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdul-Ilah Khatib expressed his country's deep
concern about the bombings, calling them ``another episode in the vicious
circle of the Palestinian-Israeli violence.''

The latest casualties should ``persuade everybody that the bloody
confrontations will not lead to any benefit for any party,'' Khatib said in a
statement carried by the official Petra news agency.





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