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Soldiers catch Palestinian boy wearing explosive belt
Ha'aretz ^
| 3/24/04
| Ha'aretz
Posted on 03/24/2004 6:21:22 AM PST by tomahawk
Soldiers catch Palestinian boy wearing explosive belt
By Haaretz Service
Israel Defense Forces soldiers caught a Palestinian boy, aged about 8, wearing an explosive belt at the Hawara roadblock south of Nablus in the West Bank. Sappers detonated the device in a controlled explosion.
The boy has been taken in for questioning.
The army believes that the boy was meant to detonate the belt near the soldiers or near the nearby army base.
Just last week, soldiers found an explosive charge on a cart pushed by a 10-year-old Palestinian boy at the same roadblock.
The soldiers released the boy after it transpired that he did not know what was in the bag he was carrying through the barricade.
Abdallah Quran, of the Balata refugee camp east of Nablus, makes a living by transferring bags from one side of the roadblock to the other. He told the soldiers that every day after school, where he attends the fourth grade, he takes his cart to the Hawara barricade to help invalids and women transfer their bags in his cart, while they wait in line for the security checks.
One of the bags on Quran's cart looked suspicious to the soldiers. When they examined it, they found a 7-10 kilogram explosive charge.
People were evacuated from the barricade, and sappers arrived to detonate the bomb. All the Palestinians who had been in line and around the barricade were detained for questioning. Quran was questioned for several hours before being released.
According to defense establishment figures, since the beginning of the intifada, there have been 29 Palestinians under the age of 18 who carried out suicide attacks, and 22 others under 18 who carried out "sacrificial attacks" - in which they opened fire and were killed - in the territories. Forty others under 18 were arrested on suspicion of intending to carry out attacks.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arafat; boysoldiers; foiled; hamas; homocidebombers; plo; savages; terrorists
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posted on
03/24/2004 6:21:23 AM PST
by
tomahawk
To: tomahawk
geeeeze!
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posted on
03/24/2004 6:22:30 AM PST
by
prairiebreeze
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posted on
03/24/2004 6:22:37 AM PST
by
Alouette
(A nasty end, and I wish I needn't have seen it; but it's a good riddance.)
To: tomahawk
Golda Meir once said, "there will be peace when the Palestinians loved their children more than they hate the Israelis."
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posted on
03/24/2004 6:24:22 AM PST
by
wingman1
(University of Vietnam '70)
To: Alouette
I just saw this, and God Almighty, I just don't know what to say, it's so awful.
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posted on
03/24/2004 6:24:32 AM PST
by
backhoe
(The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)... the 00's? The Decade of Lunatics...)
To: tomahawk
There's obviously someone who's recruiting young boys and he needs to be found quickly.
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posted on
03/24/2004 6:24:41 AM PST
by
mtbopfuyn
To: tomahawk
" Quran was questioned for several hours before being released. "They should have never released him. His murderous parents are the ultimate child abusers.
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posted on
03/24/2004 6:25:10 AM PST
by
spunkets
To: Alouette
What a bunch of sick bastards... Blowing them off with an Apache helo is really being too kind with these rabid dogs.
To: tomahawk
They had a "spiritual leader" who said this is okay.
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posted on
03/24/2004 6:25:28 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(Socialism is slavery.)
To: mtbopfuyn
Hopefully, the air-to-ground missile fired the other day found him.
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posted on
03/24/2004 6:26:42 AM PST
by
Flightdeck
(Death is only a horizon)
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To: prairiebreeze
They should hold this boy, show him to the world, make an example of him, ie, as we did with the Cuban boy.
Except of course, we returned him to a life under Castro.
To: tomahawk
a Palestinian boy, aged about 8, wearing an explosive belt
That is atrocious! Where are all the humanitanian organizations and why aren't they yelling about this? Where is the International Red Cross? Amnesty International? Koffi Annon? This is outrageous!
Too bad it will get little media coverage. Hey Peter Jennings, your old girlfriends' people are using 8 year old children to blow themselves up! When are you going to wake up????
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posted on
03/24/2004 6:27:44 AM PST
by
TomGuy
(Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
To: spunkets
You may have a point there.
Every youngster they find that has been targeted for "suicide" should be adopted out to a western family.
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posted on
03/24/2004 6:27:45 AM PST
by
MrB
To: tomahawk
Maybe they are running out of willing adults.
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posted on
03/24/2004 6:28:01 AM PST
by
Sloth
(We cannot defeat foreign enemies of the Constitution if we yield to the domestic ones.)
To: tomahawk
Barbarians. Not even the Golden Horde sent in children.
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posted on
03/24/2004 6:28:28 AM PST
by
Centurion2000
(Resolve to perform what you must; perform without fail that what you resolve.)
To: tomahawk
Is the record for the lowlife swine 8 years old? I can't wait to see them leave an explosive toddler who has just learned to walk.
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posted on
03/24/2004 6:29:50 AM PST
by
doug from upland
(Don't wait until it is too late to stop Hillary -- do something today!)
To: Centurion2000
Al Qaeda doesn't use children.
The Taliban doesn't use children.
The Ba'athist terrorists in Iraq don't use children.
Only the scum "Palestinian" savages do this.
No state for savage terrorists.
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posted on
03/24/2004 6:30:47 AM PST
by
tomahawk
To: tomahawk
Boys will be bombs.
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posted on
03/24/2004 6:31:22 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Aye, fight and you may die, run, and you'll live...at least a while)
To: tomahawk
My Lord! Eight years old? What next? Toddlers?
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posted on
03/24/2004 6:32:45 AM PST
by
Fiddlstix
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