Those two vile British Muslim mass murderers who attacked Mike’s Place in Tel Aviv are seen in a new video released by the Hamas terror gang: Bomb Britons appear on Hamas tape.

It is the first time a suicide bomber has recorded a video, explaining his motivation in detail. Usually, bombers read a few verses from the Koran.

In the face of this unmitigated terror campaign, we have every right to exercise our right of self-defence and to carry the war to the doorsteps of these terrorists

Israeli government

In the video, released on Monday, the pair are shown brandishing assault rifles and calling on God to punish Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W Bush.

In a statement released with the video, Hamas’s military wing said the bombing had been a message to Israel that the group “has many options to fight against you as long as you are occupying our land and committing massacres against our people”.

And it called al-Maqadma an international figure whose death merited an international response.

Israeli government spokesman Raanan Gissin told BBC News Hamas was now an international organisation “sending its tentacles into Israel” to wage war.

Hanif and Sharif were part of this war’s “terrorist expeditionary forces”, he added.

In this picture released from the Hamas Islamic group in Gaza City, Monday March 8, 2004, British citizens Asif Hanif, 21, left, and Omar Khan Sharif, 27, right, wear white and hold automatic rifles, as they pose for pictures in this undated picture. Hamas claimed responsibility Monday for a suicide bombing attack in a Tel Aviv pub in April 2003 and released a farewell video of the two British Muslims it had recruited for the attack, that killed three Israelis and wounded some 50 others. (AP Photo/Hamas)

I love how the Associated Press now shares photo credits with Hamas. How generous of them, and so self-effacing to put their name right next to the name of a foul gang of child killers. Nice going, AP.