Suicide bombers to target Paul McCartney

McCartney Threatened with Suicide Bombing if He Sings in Israel

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

(IsraelNN.com) Muslim Sheikh Omar Bakri has threatened to make singer Paul McCartney a target of suicide bombers if he carries out his plans to perform in Israel later this month, the London Sunday Express reported. One website called McCartney an infidel.

McCartney has rejected pressure by pro-Arab groups that he call off the event.

Bakri, preaching in a weekly Internet broadcast from Lebanon where he lives in exile from Britain, charged that McCartney will make "more enemies than friends" by appearing in Israel.

"If you speak about the Holocaust and its authenticity never being proved historically in the way the Jewish community portrays it, people will arrest you," he announced. "People will you say you should not speak like this. Yet they go and celebrate the anniversary of 60 years of what?

"Instead of supporting the people of Palestine in their suffering, McCartney is celebrating the atrocities of the occupiers. The one who is under occupation is supposed to be getting the help."

In an interview with the Express, he said, "Our enemy’s friend is our enemy. Thus Paul McCartney is the enemy of every Muslim. We have what we call 'sacrifice' operatives who will not stand by while he joins in a celebration of their oppression."

Omar Barghouti, of The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, called the threat "deplorable."