The leader of the Islamic Jihad in the PA - the group that claimed responsibility for yesterday's suicide attack in Netanya, calling it a "present to the Iraqi people" - has called on his fellow terrorists elsewhere in the PA to join the battle against the U.S. in Iraq by volunteering to commit suicide attacks. Arab sources in the PA and Iraq said that some 4,000 "martyrdom seekers" have already arrived in Baghdad. "Whoever is able to march and reach Iraq and blow himself up in this American invasion... this is the climax of Jihad and climax of martyrdom," said Abdullah Shallah, leader of Islamic Jihad. Abdul Baki Saadoun, a Baath Party official in southern Iraq, said fighters were competing to die in suicide attacks. "We all wish to blow ourselves up by explosive belts or assaults on the Americans, Zionists and the English," he told Arab satellite television channel al-Jazeera in an interview broadcast Sunday.
Al-Jazeera reported last night that an unknown number of Syrian troops had arrived in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, brandishing weapons and portraits of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "Come to the land of the Arabs in Iraq and fight for Islam with your souls," they shouted.
The leading Syrian Moslem authority, Sheikh Ahmad Kaftaro, faxed a statement to the French News Agency calling on "Moslems everywhere to use all means possible to thwart the aggression, including martyr operations against the belligerent American, British and Zionist invaders... Resistance to the belligerent invaders is an obligation for all Muslims." The Syrian religious leader also called on Moslems everywhere to boycott the products of the US, Britain, and their supporters, and to disrupt airports, seaports and other facilities used in support of the allied war effort in Iraq.
Iraq's Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan went even further, warning that suicide attacks would become "routine military policy" also against targets in the United States and in Britain.
Al-Jazeera reported last night that an unknown number of Syrian troops had arrived in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, brandishing weapons and portraits of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "Come to the land of the Arabs in Iraq and fight for Islam with your souls," they shouted.
The leading Syrian Moslem authority, Sheikh Ahmad Kaftaro, faxed a statement to the French News Agency calling on "Moslems everywhere to use all means possible to thwart the aggression, including martyr operations against the belligerent American, British and Zionist invaders... Resistance to the belligerent invaders is an obligation for all Muslims." The Syrian religious leader also called on Moslems everywhere to boycott the products of the US, Britain, and their supporters, and to disrupt airports, seaports and other facilities used in support of the allied war effort in Iraq.
Iraq's Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan went even further, warning that suicide attacks would become "routine military policy" also against targets in the United States and in Britain.