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London editor: I’d celebrate Israel’s nuking

By · August 29, 2007

The editor of an Arabic daily newspaper in London said he would “dance with delight” if Iranian missiles hit Israel.

“If the Iranian missiles strike Israel, by Allah, I will go to Trafalgar Square and dance with delight,” said Abd Al-Bari Atwan in an interview with the Lebanese television station ANB in June, according to The Jerusalem Post.

Bari Atwan is the editor of the Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, a pan-Arab daily he founded in 1989. He is also a commentator on Sky News and BBC News 24.

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