Although many say that the war in Iraq accomplished nothing, it has shown the seriousness of the current U.S. government to act on terrorism. Terrorist organizations do not like the U.S. but they fear them. The new Hamas leadership clearly would not like to deal with U.S. retaliation. At the very least, the U.S. would encourage Israel to crack down harder on Hamas.

seriously, I don't think Hamas ever had intentions of sending hamas agents to the usa to commit homicide bombings. They probably said it before to get support from other terror orgs...but their issue has always been and will continue to be with Israel and the jews.

They're just trying to create confusion.

I'm sure they will attack any American interests, inside or outside of Pakistan, as soon as they'll get a chance to.

actually I think that Hamas is now trying to spin it so that it is America that is creating this fake "terror threat" against itself and blaming Hamas to justify their inaction in the situation or to support future Israeli military actions.

It seems that maybe Israel's policy is working.

To be honest, I think Sharon is more of a "legitimate target" than teenagers going to a disco. {A friend of mine had her 90 year old relative blown up during passover dinner.}

If Hamas spends effort to do targeted killing of political figures, like Israel does, as opposed to their speciality of indiscriminate murder of innocents, that's an improvement.

It is a war, after all, and those two types will fight it to the death.

Better that everybody else gets on with their lives until the warmongers are exhausted.

And yes, the threat of the USA actually does seem to have scared Hamas.

The USA is less discriminating in their aerial attacks. Israelis use helicopters with 5-10 lb warhead rockets against targets that they have been tracking for weeks and months. The USA uses 2000 lb bombs, and its human intelligence is worse.

Israel did that once, and killed many innocents---it was a disaster.