Paul McCartney can relax when he arrives in Israel next week. Yesterday, the internet was abuzz with rumours that he would be a target if he went ahead and performed in the Holy Land but apparently the original threat was from a lone fame seeking terrorist named Omar Bakri.
Aaron Klein WorldNetDaily’s Jerusalem bureau chief has released a statement saying he personally called leaders from all of the terrorist groups and none of them knew who Sir Paul was.
Klein is also author of the book “Schmoozing with Terrorists.”
Klein said he even sang some of the Beatle’s hits including: “Yesterday,” “Let It Be” and “She Loves You,” but none of the leaders recognized any of them.
Klein has interviewed Bakri several times. In 1999, he spent a weekend with Bakri and his group, writing an article called, “My Weekend with the Enemy,” published in newspapers, including the Jerusalem Post and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Klein called Bakri a “notorious media attention seeker” who is “more talk than action.”
He said Palestinian terror groups “pay little to no attention to anything Bakri says or does. They don’t take Bakri seriously.”
Here are a few quotes from some of the other leaders:
“I don’t know any of this,” said Muhammad Abdel-Al, spokesman and senior leader of the Popular Resistance Committees terror group.
Abu Ahmed, a senior leader of Islamic Jihad in Gaza, told Klein, “We don’t know these Beatles.”
Ala Senakreh, chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the West Bank city of Nablus said:
“Listen, I have a friend at the University [of Nablus]. I can call him. Maybe he knows of McCartney,” Senakreh told Klein.
Klein said he also called members of Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and a lesser-known group, the Army of Islam. Those terrorists also had no idea who The Beatles/Mcartney were.