(2002-12-04) — The best-known product manufactured by middle-eastern Muslims may soon be exported globally, coming to a supermarket near you.
Lebanon-based Hezbollah leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, said in a speech recently, “Martyrdom operations-suicide bombings-should be exported outside Palestine. I encourage Palestinians to take suicide bombings worldwide. Don’t be shy about it.”
Sheik Nasrallah said the product would be available in supermarkets, shopping malls and even aboard public transit. Apparently Palestinian manufacturers of the product have lacked the confidence to export, preferring to offer their wares almost exclusively to their neighbors, the Israelis. But last week, in a prototype market test, a few entrepreneurs made a go of it at a hotel in Kenya, with encouraging results.
U.S. President George Bush said Muslim exporters could expect to pay “extremely high tariffs and if necessary, uniformed U.S. authorities will come and inspect your manufacturing facilities with the help of our friends, the Israelis.”
Mr. Bush said the Palestinians were known to violate child-labor laws and worker safety regulations in the making of this product.
“The product is obsolete, and it never really worked anyway,” said Mr. Bush. “Americans have no appetite for such things.”

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