Terrorist Attacks on US (Score 1)

Palestinians hail Bin Laden, fire with joy at anti-US attacks AFP Nablus, West Bank, September 11, 19:55 ome 2,000 Palestinians on Tuesday celebrated, chanting slogans in honour of suspected terrorist Osama Bin Laden following a string of apparent terror attacks in the United States. Dozens of Palestinian refugees fired into the air with joy on Tuesday at the news, reports said. Guerrillas in military fatigues from various factions fired assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades into the air in the Ain Al-Helweh refugee camp at the outskirts of the southern port city of Sidon, one correspondent said. Camp residents, some still in pyjamas, interrupted afternoon rests to rush down to the streets and fire assault rifles into the air, they said. At the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Palestinian fighters also went out to the streets as soon as they heard the news from their television sets to fire into the air with joy, an AFP correspondent said.