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by World Zionist Organization

Hamas mourns bin Laden’s death
Gaza government condemns US slaying of ‘Arab holy warrior’, asks ‘God to offer him mercy with true believers, martyrs’. Meanwhile, US source says special forces team’s mission had been to kill, not capture, arch terrorist in Pakistan.

Hamas on Monday condemned the killing by US forces of Osama bin Laden and mourned him as an “Arab holy warrior” while Iran condemned “Zionist terror” and a US national security official told Reuters the mission of the special forces team that hunted down the terrorist had been to kill him.

“This was a kill operation,” the official said, making clear there was no desire to try to capture bin Laden alive in Pakistan.
Hamas on Monday condemned the killing by US forces of Osama bin Laden and mourned him as an “Arab holy warrior” while Iran condemned “Zionist terror” and a US national security official told Reuters the mission of the special forces team that hunted down the terrorist had been to kill him..”This was a kill operation,” the official said, making clear there was no desire to try to capture bin Laden alive in Pakistan.

Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip, told reporters that the group regards bin Laden’s death “as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood.”

Though he noted doctrinal differences between bin Laden’s al Qaeda and Hamas, Haniyeh said: “We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs.”

Iran responded to the killing by saying that the US and its allies had now “lost the excuse to continue their presence in the region with the aim of fighting terror”.

In a statement Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said, “This incident proves that there is no need for a huge war in order to deal with one person.” He said Iran, which sees itself as a victim of terror, “condemns all acts of terrorism in the world, including the organized terror of the Zionist regime”.