[lit-ideas] Re: bombing for sex
- From: JulieReneB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 23:03:29 EST
I'm sorry for missing your article, Omar. I'm 500 e-mails behind (due to an
out of state trip, a sinus infection, and a hospitalized Mother). I should
not post until I have read what is already posted.
Julie
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Subj:[lit-ideas] Re: bombing for sex
Date:3/27/2004 8:58:12 PM Central Standard Time
From:omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx
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Julie,
I posted previously an article that discussed this
incident, which you ignored and posted your own report
instead. The article corrected some plain inaccuracies
found in the report you post (for example, the boy was
16 not 14) and more importantly brought to light some
contradictions in the Israeli version of the case. For
example, it is extremely curious that the IDF, which
is not normally eager to have the proceedings at the
checkpoints televised, had TV cameras on the ready 2
hours ahead of time. It's also contradictory that the
boy allegedly accepted 100 shekels (about 20 US $) to
commit suicide, though this may be explained by his
apparent mental retardedness. The boy's parents said
that it was 'wrong to use childen in this way,' but
exactly who used him is far from clear.
I am sorry that some pro-Israeli posters here - and I
definitely include you in this description, for I
haven't got much faith in the MEMRI-style of
one-sided objectivity - are only prepared to have a
discussion on their own terms.
O.K.
--- JulieReneB@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Anyone know what the American currency equivalent to
> a shekel in Israel is
> these days? Here we have a political ideology
> attempting to make inroads by
> paying a kid and promising him after-life sex, in
> exchange for blowing himself
> and a bunch of other people up. Interesting
> variation on prostituting minors.
> Whole new pathologies are being born. Do the
> Palestinians really consider
> this defensible??? Does the Arab world in
> general????
> <<"Blowing myself up is the only chance I've got to
> have sex with 72 virgins
> in the Garden of Eden," a 14-and-a-half-year-old
> Palestinian boy told his
> Israeli investigators after being caught wearing an
> 8kg explosives belt.
>
> Husam Muhammad Bilal Abdu from Masahiya neighborhood
> in Nablus was captured
> Wednesday afternoon by IDF troops near the Hawara
> roadblock near Nablus, the
> same place an 11-year-old boy was caught with a bomb
> last week.
>
> "They told me that this was the only way, and they
> promised that my mother
> would get one hundred shekels if I did this," Husam
> told his captors.
>
> The Fatah Tanzim claimed responsibility for sending
> the would-be bomber,
> Channel One reported Wednesday night.
>
> The boy aroused suspicions when he reached the
> Hawara roadblock. Soldiers
> from the Paratroopers 202 Brigade aimed their
> weapons at him, and he
> panicked.
>
> Seeing that the boy was "unusually swollen" around
> the chest area, he was
> checked by soldiers at the roadblock, who ordered
> him to lift his t-shirt,
> where they discovered a large gray suicide bomb belt
> on his chest with a
> detonation device attached to it. Soldiers
> immediately jumped behind a
> concrete barrier and trained their weapons on the
> boy again.
>
> The area was shut down and sappers were brought in
> to neutralize the
> explosives belt. A remote- controlled robot was sent
> out with a pair of
> scissors to the would-be suicide bomber, who was
> instructed by sappers to
> begin cutting the belt off of his chest.
>
> He cut off part of it and struggled with the rest.
> "I don't how to get this
> off," he said.
>
> After he dropped the vest, soldiers ordered him to
> take off his undershirt
> and jeans, to ensure he had no other weapons on him.
>
> The belt contained 8kg of explosives, and was
> detonated in a controlled
> explosion after it was taken off the Palestinian
> child.
>
> Lt. Tamir Milrad, an officer at the checkpoint said,
> "We saw that he had
> something under his shirt."
>
> "He told us he didn't want to die. He didn't want to
> blow up," Milrad added.
>
> Channel Two news reported that the boy received 100
> NIS for carrying the
> belt and exploding near Israeli targets.
>
> Following the incident, IDF erected a blockade
> around Nablus. Channel 2
> reported that security services have warnings of a
> wave of terror attempts
> emanating from Nablus, a hotbed of Fatah Tanzim
> activity.
>
> The boy's brother, Hussam Abdo, said he was mentally
> slow.
>
> "He doesn't know anything, and he has intelligence
> of a 12 year old," his
> brother, Hosni, said.
>
> The incident was the latest in a series of foiled
> terrorist attacks
> involving young Palestinians.
>
> "No matter how many times Israel learns of the use
> of children for suicide
> bombings, it is shocking on each occasion," said
> Dore Gold, an adviser to
> Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
>
> "Israelis do not understand how Palestinians are
> willing to sacrifice their
> own children in order to kill ours."
>
> Last week, Fatah Tanzim terrorists in Nablus sent an
> 11-year-old boy to
> smuggle a bomb through an IDF roadblock on Monday,
> and tried to detonate the
> bomb when soldiers stopped him.
>
> The men gave the boy a bag containing a seven-to-10
> kilogram bomb stuffed
> with bolts. They promised him a large sum of money
> if he would carry it
> through the roadblock and hand it to a woman waiting
> on the other side.
>
> Since 2001, more than 40 other minors who were
> involved in planning suicide
> bombings have been arrested by security forces.
> Since May 2001, 22 shootings
> and bombings were perpetrated by minors.>>
>
> http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=20210
>
>
>
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