19 September 2002

In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful

“It is not ye who slew them; it was Allah: when thou threwest, it was not thy act, but Allah's…”

Qassam Brigades military communiqué

We will get even with you Zionists

Our Mujahid Palestinian people … our Arab and Muslim Ummah:

The Qassam Brigades bear the glad tidings of their renewed martyrdom operations. One of the Qassam Brigades’ commandos, whose name will be withheld for the time being, mounted bus no. 4 carrying Zionist usurpers at 12.55 Thursday 12^th Rajab 1423H – 19/9/2002AD then exploded his body in the bus.

Zionists thought that they have wiped out the Mujahideen fighting in the cause of Allah but we tell them that the Qassam Brigades have prepared and recruited an army of martyrdom fighters who came out from under the ruins and debris to humiliate you and your army until ejection of occupation from our holy land.

The Qassam Brigades declare responsibility for the heroic operation and affirm the following:

First: This operation is the third reprisal act in the long retaliatory strikes promised by the Qassam Brigades after the assassination of its general commander Sheikh Salah Shehada and the Daraj suburb massacre.

Second: This operation follows the assassination of commander Sheikh Nasr Jarrar and the arrest of leaders of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, in the West Bank to affirm that Hamas is hard to break.

Third: Occupation’s daily crimes are registered in the Qassam Brigades’ agenda and retaliatory strikes to those crimes are on the way God willing.

And it is a Jihad until either victory or martyrdom

Qassam Brigades

Thursday 12^th Rajab 1423H

19/9/2002AD