[lit-ideas] New lows
- From: JulieReneB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:46:55 EST
They're willing to kill their own children now, apparently. I'm beyond
disbelief.Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
<<2. P.A. TERRORISTS DESCEND TO NEW LOWS
Palestinian terrorists were willing to sacrifice a 10-year-old Arab boy in
the course of an attempt to perpetrate a terrorist attack against Israelis
yesterday.
The incident occurred at the Hawara checkpoint near Shechem in the Shomron.
An alert policewoman saw a boy carrying three packs, including one with wires
coming out. She questioned him briefly, and he stuttered that he has been
asked to deliver it to someone. The policewoman put the suspicious bag aside,
and called the commanding officer. He distanced everyone from the site, and
sappers detonated the bomb in a controlled explosion.
Witnesses said that "screws and nuts flew in all directions, and a small
crater was formed at the site." The explosives vest was estimated at 7-10
kilograms. The bomb was apparently meant to be delivered to a suicide
terrorist, or
to go off via the activation of a cellular phone in the bomb-pack. A
technical "mal"-function, however, prevented the explosion - which would have
killed
not only Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint, but also the Arab boy.
The boy was taken for questioning, and related that he had been promised a
"large sum of money" - some reports said it was five shekels ($1.10) - to carry
the pack across the checkpoint. The Israeli intelligence forces believe that
he did not know he was carrying a bomb, and he was released towards evening.
The forces are now looking for the men who sent the boy, as well as the man
who was to have received the package.>>
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