11-year-old boy used as human bomb (more info and pictures)

Jerusalem Post ^ | Mar. 15, 2004 | MARGOT DUDKEVITCH

[yonif]

Fatah Tanzim activists in Nablus attempted to use 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.

Earlier in the day, Shin Bet agents had alerted troops in the area of plans by a bomber to leave Nablus.

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.

"A military policewoman lifted the bag, which was heavy, and placed it on the table. The soldier noticed the boy was uneasy and, when she questioned him, he told her the bag didn't belong to him and he had been asked to take it through," Lt.-Col. Guy, a Paratroop Brigade battalion commander, told The Jerusalem Post.

"She immediately alerted officers, and with the other soldiers, distanced everyone from the area. "When the boy's dispatchers saw he was being detained, they dialed the cellphone inside the bag meant to detonate the bomb in an attempt, but it failed top go off," he said.

The boy was detained for questioning, and sappers were called in to dispose of the bomb.

Guy said the boy will be freed after questioning. "We're not going to do anything with a boy like that, an innocent kid trying to earn his daily bread. Someone apparently promised him money for getting the bomb across."

Guy said it is common for terrorist groups to use children or women as couriers for arms and explosives.

"We have caught a 39-year-old mother of seven... with an explosive belt under her clothes," he said, adding that the woman was on her way into Israel from the West Bank when she was caught. Since the outbreak of violence, terrorists have dispatched 29 suicide bombers younger than 18, officials said.

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. Elsewhere in the West Bank, soldiers shot a Palestinian who threw a fire bomb at troops near Zabade, south of Jenin. Shots were also fired at soldiers in Nablus.

Security forces arrested four fugitives in Zawata, north of Nablus, and another south of Bethlehem. In the Gaza Strip, an anti-tank rocket was fired at a crowded bus as it left Netzarim. Passengers said the rocket entered one side and exited the other side. No one was wounded. An anti-tank rocket was also fired at an IDF post near Neveh Dekalim.

Shots were fired at a convoy entering Netzarim, at an IDF post on the Karni-Netzarim road, and at workers building the security fence near Moshav Katif.

Security forces arrested a fugitive in his home on the outskirts of Rafah. Palestinians claimed that, during the arrest, soldiers shot dead the man's brother.

[yonif]

The Military Policewoman

The kid used by terrorists.

[Professional Engineer]

The Military Policewoman

Smart soldier, cool.

[tiamat]

That poor little kid.

My daughter is the same age.

How must he feel to realise that his life is so worthless?

[BrooklynGOP]

I'ld like to reward her :]

[GrandEagle]

Guy said it is common for terrorist groups to use children or women as couriers
Yes these are big men! They can hide behind both women AND children.
Cowards.....all of them.

[Guillermo]

The Zionist Pigs are lying.

They obviously altered the picture.

The "11 year old boy" is in fact a 26 year old Soldier of Allah, defending his land from the blood-sucking Zionist horde.

[anniegetyourgun]

"When the boy's dispatchers saw he was being detained, they dialed the cellphone inside the bag meant to detonate the bomb in an attempt, but it failed top go off," he said. "

"Men" dialed that phone - intending to send a "boy" to his death. These palis are wormy cowards to send children to do their bidding. Sick.

I don't understand why this boy was returned. He has nothing to go home to. No one there loves him or cares about him. Too bad he couldn't be adopted out to a REAL family.

[Professional Engineer]

I'ld like to reward her :]

Perhaps something in person? LOL

[caisson71]

Where's the outcry from all those "humanity" activists or "it's the children" groups who can only find fault with the US for everything! Their silence is defening.

[bk1000]

"How must he feel to realise that his life is so worthless? "

He probably feels like he has been cheated out of his 72 virgins in paradise. These kids are completely brainwashed.

[jjm2111]

"In the Gaza Strip, an anti-tank rocket was fired at a crowded bus as it left Netzarim. Passengers said the rocket entered one side and exited the other side.

I'm glad this isn't a common occurrence on NJ Transit. My smypathies for the boy. I'm glad Hamas or whomever is so brave they use little children for their deeds. Kudos to the sharp-eyed policewoman too.

[tiamat]

Kid that age doesn't know what to do with one virgin, much less 72!

I bet they didn't tell him.

Where is his mother?

[Zathras]

The kid looks just like the kid who was hitchhiking in Haifa when I was there 3 years ago.
When I said "No", he flipped me off.

[SevenDaysInMay]

Pallies children should be taken away and reared by Jews or Christians, or even Hindus.

Arafat's systematic abombination for teaching Pallies that 4 y.o.s and up ought to murder Jews for being Jews has created a perpetual war crime. The Pallies have forfeited any right of parenthood.

Take to children to save them.

[BrooklynGOP]

Pallies children should be taken away and reared by Jews or Christians, or even Hindus.

[KantianBurke]

eh. She's a bit too husky for my taste.

[TomGuy]

In one article yesterday, he was said to be 12.

In another article yesterday, he was said to be 10.

Now, in this article, he is said to be 11.


So, our trusty media has the boy a 10 or 11 or 12, take your pick.

[BrooklynGOP]

Don't be so selfish! This woman is a hero! :P

[Migraine]

Those checkinsheet muddafockers! Is there no depth to which they will not stoop? What a warped mentality. Is there any other culture which is so fatalistic? Are other barbarians this uncouth? What other group has ever so devalued the lives of women and children?
They have got to be run back into the medieval caves they came from.

[bk1000]

"Kid that age doesn't know what to do with one virgin"

I was being a little sarcastic. I have heard that these kids believe in that whole martyr thing 100%