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"We told the Zionist enemy we will meet it with many surprises ... and this is one of the surprises."
ABU OBEIDEH, Hamas spokesman, on Palestinian grandmother Fatima Omar Mahmud al-Naja; the 64-year-old woman strapped on a suicide belt that detonated as she approached Israeli soldiers in Gaza. Three soldiers were slightly injured; only al-Naja died "Apart from a small portion of traffic victims, most of the organs from cadavers are from executed prisoners."
HUANG JIEFU, Chinese Vice Minister of Health, acknowledging that China harvests organs from executed prisoners for transplants, a practice it has long denied "We may have lost a dear old friend and teacher."
michael meyer, NASA scientist, announcing that the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft had fallen silent after nearly 10 years of beaming data on the planet back to Earth—more than double its expected life "I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project."
RUPERT MURDOCH, News Corp. CEO, announcing the cancellation of a TV interview with O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife and her friend Ron Goldman. Murdoch also canceled Simpson's book, If I Did It "It is possible to use studio makeup to have a person look like me."
ZAHRA AMIR EBRAHIMI, Iranian soap-opera star, denying that she was the woman in a sex tape that has caused a scandal in conservative Tehran. Ebrahimi claims the tape was fabricated by her ex-fiancé, who faces up to three years in jail if convicted of making and distributing it "Very low food security"
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ANNUAL REPORT, replacing hunger with this phrase to describe the experience of 4.4 million Americans; a sociologist for the department said hunger is not a scientifically quantifiable term