JERUSALEM – A Web site for the Hamas terrorist group offers advice on how to mass-produce poison for attacks, the Israeli army charged yesterday.
But Hamas said the lengthy “Mujahedeen Poisons Handbook” was an unsolicited offering to one of the site’s chat rooms – from a Web surfer identified as the “Red Baron.”
“This document is further evidence of Hamas’ use of the Internet as a means of assistance in its efforts to carry out terrorist attacks,” the Israeli army said in a statement.
A Hamas official, Ismail Haniyah, told Reuters the group bore no responsibility for what contributors said on its Web site.
“Hamas does not seek to own non-conventional weapons,” he said. “It is not Hamas’ strategy to own biological or chemical weapons.”
One recipe describes how to boil down cigarettes in alcohol to make a toxic nicotine poison.
“Ten cigarettes should be enough to kill three men, therefore three is enough to kill one man,” the manual said.
Also yesterday, Israeli troops blew up the house of the leader of Islamic Jihad in the West Bank town of Hebron. With Post Wire Services