Baby Bomber Picture 'Joke'

Sky News via Drudge ^ | June 29, 2002 | N/A

[Brytani]

Baby Bomber Picture 'Joke'

The Palestinian family who photographed their baby dressed up as a suicide bomber has told Sky News it was a joke.

The Israeli Defence Forces found the photo during a search of a Palestinian militant's home in Hebron. The child was pictured wearing a belt of fake explosives and bullets.

Propaganda

But the family told Sky's Andrew Wilson the picture was "just a joke".

"The photograph was taken some time ago at a party when someone dressed up the cutest baby as a suicide bomber," one relative said.

The picture went around the world and became a symbol of despair for all those who want peace in the Middle East.

Support

Suicide bombers have taken on heroic status in the occupied territories with posters and pictures of them plastered on walls and homes.

They believe they will go to heaven if they succeed in their mission to kill Israelis and end the occupation.

Bombers' funerals take place in the belief that the deceased will go to paradise.

And there is seemingly no end to the number of Palestinians willing to sacrifice their lives for the Palestinian cause.

	A suicide attack in Jerusalem

With the Israelis proving ineffective in stopping the bombers getting into Jerusalem, the tactic of suicide bombing is highly successful, and is perhaps the only tool the Palestinians have to fight the heavily-equipped Israelis.

Carnage

Around 26 Israeli civilians have been killed in back-to-back bombings this month.

And along with the deaths, dozens of Israelis have been maimed and disfigured by the attacks.

Israeli medics say bombers have packed their explosives with nails, ball bearings and anti-coagulants to cause maximum damage.

Last month a Palestinian bomber aged 16 killed two Israelis in a park near Tel Aviv.

Issa Bdeir became the youngest attacker to blow himself up.

An Israeli baby was also killed when a suicide bomber hit a crowded bus last week.

Meanwhile President George W Bush has insisted that his Middle East proposals had been welcomed by G8 leaders meeting in Canada.

The move comes despite reports of a serious rift between Britain and Washington over President Bush's call for Yasser Arafat to stand down.

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[Chad Fairbanks]

Israeli medics say bombers have packed their explosives with nails, ball bearings and anti-coagulants to cause maximum damage.

Huh???? Like Warfarin, perhaps??????

[Reactionary]

That's right. The Palestinians evidently have such a fine sense of humor that a two-year-old dressed up in an explosive belt is a "joke," but at five or ten they're positively divine.

As usual, the lying Palestinians and their friends in the Arab media seek to spin their way out of a public relations disaster. Nothing new there. What is new, however, is the fact that this kind of ham-handed stupidity gets more believable to the brainwashed fanatics on the left.

[GeneD]

I don't know what happened, but the picture changed on us. I think I gave the wrong link. Sorry.

[Un669]

What a sick joke, there aren't many nations in the world capable of such disgust, but the Palis surely are one of them. In Jenin they sent out two 8-year-olds to detonate themselves on IDF soldiers, the two died without causing casualties. I wish the IDF will start punishing them from the air, otherwise its useless. What King Hussain of Jordan did in September 1970 was the only solution with such people: kill 7,000 of them in a week... and the problem is solved. These people only understand force. Nothing else will convince them not to kill innocent Israeli civilians.
Arafat certainly formed an empire of terror since the Oslo agreements...

[Savage Beast]

You gotta admit, these people have a sense of humor.

So does their "god" Allah! How he loves murder, suicide, the smell of exploding flesh, the sound of people screaming in pain and anguish, the taste of human blood!

It stands to reason that anyone who would bow down 6 times a day to a "god" like that would roll on the floor laughing at an exploding murder/suicide baby! And the cuter the better!

That Allah! He sure know how to lead his people!

Those Muslims! They sure know how to please Allah!

[Savage Beast]

"They believe they will go to heaven if they succeed in their mission to kill Israelis and end the occupation."

They're willing to purchase a ticket to paradise with the blood and pain of other people.

What kind of "god" would make such a bargain?

What kind of man or woman would accept such a bargain?

Do they not recognize a pact with the devil? Apparantly not. But that is whom they worship.

[joesnuffy]

Those who love death....Hate God.

[joesnuffy]

Remember the "Gerber" baby contest?
Whose sponsoring this kid... The Semtex Chemical Corps?
Hey look honey its the "Semtex" baby

[desertcry]

all the Arab States, and non muslim States are already not only helping the palestinian's terrorism against Israel, they are leading it, and providing all the financial muscle behind it. If Palestine becomes a state, and the palestinians continue to wage terrorism against Israel, Israel can formally declare war on Palestine. If the Arab States continue to help palestine in terrorism, then the are in effect have declared war on Israel, which will allow Israel to defend itself(with Nuclear weapons if necessary), and not be condemed by the world as an aggressor. IMHO, I don't think the Arabs will go to war against Israel, they have done this in the past, and have lost everytime, and bigtime. The Money from the Western Democtratic States will also almost certainly stop going to the palestinians. Checkmate on arafat! Hence the last thing arafat wants is Statehood for Palestine. Proof: clinton offered him the universe for peace, and a palestine State, and arafat refused it.

[desertcry]

Chemainus, please read my post # 29 on why arafat does not want a Palestine State.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The Palestinian family who photographed their baby dressed up as a suicide bomber has told Sky News it was a joke.

I guess you had to be there

. . . and even at that

I think I'm glad I wasn't . . .

[Fabozz]

"'anti-coagulants'... Huh???? Like Warfarin, perhaps??????"

Rat poison, actually, but yeah, essentially the same stuff as Warfarin. Apparently it does improve the lethality of the bombs a little bit, by making the shrapnel wounds bleed more, but I suspect the intent is mostly symbolic.

[anapikoros]

Like Warfarin, perhaps??????

They use Rat Poison - the active ingredient is Warfarin.

[dennisw]

Baby Bomber Picture 'Joke'

That's OK by me... I get my laughs when IDF fires rockets into the automobiles that Hamas/Tenzim/Al Aqsa scum are riding around in

 

Palestinian police officers search the wreckage of a taxi that was hit by Israeli helicopter rockets, killing six Palestinians, in Rafah refugee camp southern Gaza Strip, Monday June 24, 2002. ( AP Photo/ Hatem Moussa)

 

[wingnuts'nbolts]

Ha Ha Ha ... Rots of raffs . I'm waiting for some dork to come to my home dressed like this for Hallows Eve this year .

I'm got a trick for ' em .

[wingnuts'nbolts]

Got to love it Dennis .

[Robert A Cook PE]

You're right.

The kid can't walk (far enough) yet.

[Khepera]

Ha Ha very funny.

[Ronin]

Yeah right. It was just a joke. Pardon me while I hurl.

[chemainus]

I think you may be correct on this....good hypothesis to pursue anyway.... thanks for the heads up ...Cheers !