[jla]

Abut 20 years ago, the Israelis stopped a redheaded, pregnant Irish woman from getting on a plane with a bomb that her Palestinian boyfriend put into her luggage.

I wonder if she was humming Come Out Ye Black And Tans to herself.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Abut 20 years ago, the Israelis stopped a redheaded, pregnant Irish woman from getting on a plane with a bomb that her Palestinian boyfriend put into her luggage.

==> I wonder if she was humming Come Out Ye Black And Tans to herself.

I dunno... she sounded like a dupe, more than anything else. She was probably a lefty, though. I don't recall that story, but then again, I was only 6 years old at the time!

[Arthalion]

Nah, she was a patsy. The story was that the pali boyfriend knocked her up, but didn't want to marry a white woman. He had some Syrian friends, and they concocted a way to solve both his problem and help the Syrians hit the Israelis. He told the girlfriend that his parents lived in an Arab-Israeli village, and that if she got their approval they could get married. She hopped the next flight to Israel, not knowing he'd stuck a bomb in the bag.

By all accounts, the guy didn't care so much about Israel as he did killing his girlfriend. His Syrian friends saw it as an opportunity, and used his hatred for her to further their own hatred for Israel.

The girlfriend lives in Ireland today, and the Pali lives in a British prison...he won't be eligible for release for another 20-odd years.