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Re: Saddam Attacks Hotel!!!
Posted by Jeff (Guest) jeff@attoz.com - Monday, April 26 2004, 2:27:11 (CEST)
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The Bombing of the King David Hotel

The King David Hotel was the site of the British military command and the British Criminal Investigation Division. The Irgun chose it as a target after British troops invaded the Jewish Agency June 29, 1946, and confiscated large quantities of documents. At about the same time, more than 2,500 Jews from all over Palestine were placed under arrest. The information about Jewish Agency operations, including intelligence activities in Arab countries, was taken to the King David Hotel.

A week later, news of a massacre of 40 Jews in a pogrom in Poland reminded the Jews of Palestine how Britain's restrictive immigration policy had condemned thousands to death.

Irgun leader Menachem Begin stressed his desire to avoid civilian casualties and said three telephone calls were placed, one to the hotel, another to the French Consulate, and a third to the Palestine Post, warning that explosives in the King David Hotel would soon be detonated.

On July 22, 1946, the calls were made. The call into the hotel was apparently received and ignored. Begin quotes one British official who supposedly refused to evacuate the building, saying: "We don't take orders from the Jews."1 As a result, when the bombs exploded, the casualty toll was high: a total of 91 killed and 45 injured. Among the casualties were 15 Jews. Few people in the hotel proper were injured by the blast.2

Taken from http://www.us-israel.org

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>Ashur hotel in Mosul hit today
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>Posted By: George (cache-loh-ac05.proxy.aol.com)
>Date: Sunday, 25 April 2004, at 2:27 p.m.
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>Hello
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>According to EuroNews channel 2 are killed.
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>George
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>...well he WOULD have if the Americans hadn`t thankfully removed him and spared the Iraqi people. I mean he would have attacked two more hotels at least and probably five motels..killing a lot more people than the two America liberated from their bodeis. You have to always remember..no matter how many hotels Saddam used to blow up..less are being blown up today.
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>The Irgun blew up hotels too.



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