Posted on 11/01/2004 4:16:03 PM PST by Redcloak
Last Updated: Monday, 1 November, 2004, 23:16 GMT
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Bomber's family condemn militants
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More than 30 others were wounded when 16-year-old Amer al-Fahr detonated about 5kg of explosives in a shop in the Israeli city's busy Carmel market. The leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said one of its members had carried out the attack. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was among those to condemn the bombing.
The teenager's mother, 45-year-old Samira Abdullah, criticised those who had sent her son to his death. The boy, who lived in the Askar refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus, is one of the youngest Palestinian suicide bombers. "It's immoral to send someone so young," his mother said. "They should have sent an adult who understands the meaning of his deeds." His father Abdel Rahim, 53, said his son had woken him on Monday morning to ask for two shekels before leaving. "Two shekels, that's what boys ask for - it's not money for men," he said. Dazed shoppers The bomber apparently walked into a shop with the 5kg device after 1100 (0900 GMT) on Monday, in the deadliest attack of its kind since August. Paramedics treated dazed shoppers on the ground, amid vegetables strewn on the pavement. More than 30 people were injured, four of them seriously.
Mr Arafat condemned the bombing, as well as "killing on both sides", from his hospital bed in Paris, where he is currently undergoing tests for a blood ailment, his aide Nabil Abu Rdainah said. But Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the attack "proved there has been no change in the Palestinian leadership". He added: "We will continue to fight terror as long as they don't." A spokesman from Islamic militant group Hamas, Sami Abu Zuhri, told the Associated Press the blast was evidence that the "resistance is alive". Terje Roed-Larsen, the UN envoy in the region, said the Palestinian Authority should "act without delay against those organising and perpetrating terror and to bring them to justice". Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman David Saranga, quoted by AFP news agency, urged the Palestinian Authority to crack down on armed militants. Later, Israeli military sources said two Palestinians were shot during a raid on Nablus. Hospital sources said three were killed. Meanwhile, a group of European Parliament members on a visit to Gaza criticised the Israeli army's actions there as creating the conditions for suicide bombers. Israel insists that its military action in Gaza has been necessary to defend its civilians against Palestinian attacks. |
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Boo hoo hoo, I raised a terrorist and he blew himself up!
"Bomber's family condemn militants"
They'll all get their throats cut, and the UN will continue to whine about the wall.
May Allah stain the mustache of this dog's entire family with pig droppings and burn him in hell forever!
She's upset because the check bounced....
"Honey is that a laser guided missle heading our way!!!??"
I thought every Muslim mom was happy to have her kid martyred. Maybe that was before we put an end to the $25K checks from Saddam.
I will make myself crazy trying to understand this death cult.
There is not absolutely no hope these people can live in a civilized world.
Not if Saddam or the Saudis don't send $25K and the house is going to get trashed. Times have changed. The wages of sin have dropped.
I doubt if she is really upset about either -- I think she is just trying to innoculate herself against the IDF destroying her house in retaliation.
For these people human life is secondary to their property!
Precisely! Kill the Jews! Just don't send teenagers to do it.
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It's immoral to send someone so young - they should have sent an adult 
