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Brian C. Ledbetter · Wednesday, May 30. 2007 11:09
It would appear that the esteemed Agence France-Presse does not have any wire editors to spare. They seem to be mixing up the various terrorist factions who inhabit (nay, infest) the Palestinian terror-tories.

Palestinian mourners carry the body of a Hamas militant in Jenin. Two Hamas gunmen were killed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip as the government warned it would keep up attacks on militants to try to stamp out persistent rocket fire.(AFP/Saif Dahlah)


Of course, as we covered earlier, the body being carried belongs to a militant from an offshoot of Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigades, which is itself a "violent" offshoot of the violent Fatah faction. Who, by the way, hate Hamas with a passion:

Residents say it’s enough to wear a beard, associated with Islamist Hamas, to be taken as a target by fighters from secular Fatah. A black and white keffieh, the headscarf symbolic of Fatah, is enough to earn a bullet from Hamas.


A mistake like this could happen to anyone, right?

Y'all can send me a check for the correction whenever you'd like, AFP.
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