Now tell me again why certain cultures in the Middle East haven't invented any new technology or contributed anything to advancing medicine in the last thousand years or so...
Posted on 01/14/2004 7:31:19 PM PST by jgrubbs
J E R U S A L E M, Jan. 14— A young Palestinian woman made history of sorts today in the 3-year-old Arab uprising against Israeli occupation. She killed four Israelis in a suicide bomb attack at the main border crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Reem Raiyshi, 22, managed to get right inside the border security office with a bomb belt under her clothes. According to the Israeli military, she calmly told soldiers she had a metal splint in her leg that would set off their detector. As she was taken to a special room for a personal search, she blew herself up.
"I heard the explosion," said an Israeli bus driver."Then I saw body parts everywhere."
Three Israeli soldiers and a security guard were killed. The blast also injured seven other people, including some Palestinians.
In a video released by the militant group Hamas, Raiyshi said she had wanted to be a suicide bomber since she was 16 years old.
"I was hoping to be the first woman, where parts of my body can fly everywhere," she said in Arabic on the tape, smiling. "I'm taking revenge against the Jews."
Raiyshi was not the first woman to detonate herself for the Palestinian cause, but she is the first mother. She was married, from a well-to-do family, with a 3-year-old son and an 18-month-old daughter.
She is also the first woman to be used by Hamas for a suicide attack. The militant Islamic group has always said that only men should fight — until now. Now it says holy war is the duty of all Muslims, men and women..
Choosing a Cause Over Her Children
At the checkpoint where Raiyshi blew herself up, about 6,000 Palestinian workers are allowed to pass each day to work in Israeli factories. After the attack, Palestinians were quickly rounded up. Authorities said the border would re-open Thursday, but with even tougher security.
"An incident like this will not help us to be more cooperative with the Palestinians," said an Israel military commander.
Within hours of the bombing, a mourning tent went up in Gaza City to prepare for a huge funeral Thursday for Reem Raiyshi.
Relatives say they can't understand how she could abandon her children.
"I love them," Raiyshi said in her video. "Only God knows how much I love them."
But it seems she loved martyrdom more.
'It was always my wish to turn my body into deadly shrapnel'
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2004/0115/2905338016HM1HAUGHEY.html
Now tell me again why certain cultures in the Middle East haven't invented any new technology or contributed anything to advancing medicine in the last thousand years or so...
Islam, the religion of families in little pieces.
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Meanwhile, ABC continuously reports hints so that terrorists in Iraq can murder American military.
Jennings-Ashwari and Terrorist Abu Arafat:
"In our opinion, America must learn to obey our beloved Peter Jennings,
who actually took the time to sleep with both of us."
By definition, she could only do it once.
I can't either unless they threaten to kill them if she didn't cooperate.
reem
\Reem\ (r?m), n. [Heb.] (Zo["o]l.) The Hebrew name of a horned wild animal, probably the Urus.
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