The sixth-grade Shahid

After they had already tried to smuggle explosive charges into Israel even inside the dresses of mothers of children, the Tanzim terrorists crossed another red line yesterday when they sent a 12-year-old boy with a school bag full of explosives to an IDF roadblock and intended to blow him up with the soldiers. Abdullah Koran, from the village of Hawarah near Nablus, worked in the last few months as a porter around the roadblock near his village. For a promise of money the Tanzim convinced him to take an explosive belt from the Palestinian side of the roadblock to the Israeli side. The explosive belt was supposed to be used by the Tanzim for a terror attack in Israel, and it was placed in Abdullah’s school bag so as not to arouse the soldiers’ suspicion.

The Tanzim members who sent the boy knew the soldiers might notice and check his loaded bag, and therefore they put a cellular phone in it. Their diabolical plan was to watch the roadblock from a hiding place, and if the child was stopped for a check that could expose the contraband – to blow up the charge on his back from a distance, even though they knew the boy would be a victim. The terrorists’ plan was thwarted thanks to the alertness of one of the female military police officers at the roadblock, and thanks to a warning the GSS sent to forces in the Nablus area yesterday morning about the intention to try and carry out such an attack. The cellular phone in the bag was discovered only after the child was caught and questioned by the GSS. The investigation found that the terrorists tried to blow the charge up at the roadblock by dialing to the cellular phone, but a technical error disrupted the plan.

Just like every day, yesterday too hundreds of Palestinian children from the villages and refugee camps around Nablus came to the Hawara roadblock. It is currently staffed by paratroopers from battalion 202 and female military police officers whose job is to check the Palestinian adults and children who cross the roadblock every day.

Moran Bukant, one of the military police officers, checked the bags Abdullah was carrying on his back. “The first two bags were full of clothing, but then I asked him to open his backpack and I saw right away something was wrong”, Moran said yesterday. “I opened the zipper and noticed a box with three white wires and a metal plate with bullets stuck to it. I told him to stay right there and I called the roadblock commander”.

The reinforcements called to the site under the command of Battalion 202 commander Lt.-Col. Guy opened the bag carefully, evacuated both soldiers and Palestinians from the roadblock, and called sappers. The loud blast heard as the sappers blew up the bag removed all doubt: it had contained a powerful explosive charge. The wide and deep crater left in the road and the hundreds of nuts and bolts strewn around it attested to size of the charge, which the IDF estimates at 10 kg.

Right after the controlled explosion the roadblock was closed to Palestinian traffic and the child was taken for an investigation. There the boy confirmed that on the way home from school he received the bag from a man on the other side of the roadblock. The man promised him a large sum of money if he gave it to a certain Palestinian. Following his initial interrogation, several Palestinians were arrested on the Israeli side of the roadblock on the suspicion they were supposed to accept the explosive bag from him. The terrorists’ plan to blow the bag up at the roadblock if necessary was exposed only during the examination of the remnants of the blasted bag. Only then was it discovered that the bag contained a cellular phone, which had turned the boy into a living bomb. At the end of his interrogation the boy was sent home. “The boy didn’t do anything to us”, said commander of Battalion 202, Lt.-Col. Guy. “He is a cute boy with a stocking cap who looks like any kid next door in Israel. Our problem is not with the boy but with those who sent him and used him to fool us. It must be the same Tanzim people who just a month and a half ago smuggled an explosive belt from Nablus inside the dress of a mother of seven children”.

This morning, military police officer Moran Bukant is tasked to go back to work at the Hawara roadblock. “It looks like God took care of me and I am glad the bomb in the boy’s bag did not go off”, she said yesterday. “I feel I saved lives and I’m happy, because it doesn’t always work out that way. I may be scared to go back to the roadblock, but some things are more important than fear, and here I feel I am saving the lives of Israeli citizens”.

The Hebrew version of the site reports the mother of this kid saying that the Al Aqsa terrorists would never hurt her kid, and that the soldiers were lying about the explosive device. The kid told his mother too that he had no bomb, was beat up by soldiers, and all he was trying to smuggle were car parts. The mother keeps quiet, and is probably in with the terrorists. Today Israeli soldiers found a suicide terror vest in a Arab truck, and the world complains when Israel searches people at these checkpoints.

Those crazy Palestinians. If they can't convince your kid to blow himself up for them, they'll trick him into it--and you'll cover for them and blame the Israelis. Are Palestinian women completely devoid of motherly love??

They have always commiserated with each other by saying "It's so hard watching them blow up!" Seriously, this is the product of a false religion and a fallen culture. They would be better off giving birth to rattlesnakes.

Or the mother is afraid of what the terrorists will do to her and her child(ren) if she doesn't say what they tell her to say.

Are Palestinian women completely devoid of motherly love??

I would say yes. The "leaders" of Islam everywhere know that they cannot conquer an enemy with conventional military means; so part of their strategy is to breed themselves to victory. You know, the whole strength in numbers thing. Most muslims surely get brainwashed into believing this. If this strategy continues unmolested, it will work in Israel. Its already working in France, Britain, Russia, and the former Soviet Republics. Needless to say...its happening in the U.S. too.

It's all Israel's fault that they hve to do these kinds of things...just watch CNN or actually they'll just report what the mother said

The investigation found that the terrorists tried to blow the charge up at the roadblock by dialing to the cellular phone, but a technical error disrupted the plan.

They pulled the trigger, but the bomb failed to go off.

That's the only reason why this child and several people at the checkpoint were not turned into hamburger.

13 posted on 03/16/2004 2:43:44 PM PST by Imal (The message from Spain is clear enough: terrorism works, and will therefore continue.)

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