even worse, one Hamas leader strapped a suicide vest on his own son

Submitted by jp (United States), Jan 23, 2009 at 04:23

Tess is right that most of the terrorist leaders sacrifice the families of others. But a fairly high ranking Hamas leader that was killed in the recent Israeli attack, along with 4 of his wives, reportedly had earlier made a "martyr" of one of his own sons. Now that's a death cult.

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