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(IsraelNN.com) The PFLP terrorist taken into custody by soldiers in the Askar area of Shechem during the night was planning a suicide bombing attack according to official reports.

A 16-year-old suicide terrorist Monday morning murdered two women and one man while injuring more than 30 others when he detonated his charge in Tel Aviv’s crowded Carmel market. The terrorist Amar Alfar, 18, from the Askar refugee camp in Shechem, was killed in the blast around 11:20 AM near a Kosher cheese store. Tel Aviv hospitals reported that four people were in serious condition as a result of the blast, and the rest were moderately and lightly wounded. The police closed off several streets in the area and on the main Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway in a search for the...

OSLO, Norway, Sep. 28 (UPI) -- Basim Ghozlan, director of the Islamic Association in Norway, has defended suicide bombing under certain circumstances. "If the war is legal, seen from an Islamic viewpoint, and if one has does not have the possibility to harm the enemy with other means than offering one's own life, then this is legal," Ghozlan said in reply on the Web site www.islam.no to a boy's question about suicide bombing, radio station Kanal 24 reported.

(IsraelNN.com) MDA Chief of Operations Yeruham Mandola is reporting at least three persons have been injured in the suicide bombing attack in Habla, the newly opened underground passage intended to facilitate the movements of PA residents in the Kalkilye area. The injured, a civilian and a soldier, are reported in moderate and light condition. It appears a suicide bomber blew himself up next to soldiers at the checkpoint overseeing the new passage.

An explosive device transported in a Taxi near Nablus A Tanzim operative, Ibraihim Hamed Salem Abu Zahu, was arrested in possession of a powerful explosive device weighing 10 Kg, at the Tubas checkpoint near Nablus. The explosive device was designated to be used for a suicide bombing attack inside Israel. Abu Zahu was arrested yesterday, September 09, 2004, following high intelligence alerts regarding Tanzim operatives from the region of Jenin and Nablus who were operating recently to carry out a suicide bombing attack inside Israel, by dispatching a person who will pass from Nablus into israel. On Wednesday, September 08,...

In a damning condemnation of left-wing behavior, a new book on the “Al-Aqsa Intifada,” quotes Hamas leaders saying that the behavior of Israel's left-wing encourages them to continue their attacks. The book, “The Seventh War” – written by journalists Avi Yissocharov from state-run Voice of Israel radio and Amos Harel from Haaretz – was based on a comprehensive investigations and interviews with Hamas leadership in Gaza and Israeli prisons, carried out by the two journalists. Yissocharov told Channel 1’s ‘New Evening’ program this afternoon that Hamas leaders told him over and over again that it was the Israeli left-wing that...

Translation from Hebrew to English by me It has been allowed for publication that during the month of August the security forces foiled 15 terrorist attacks. Among them, during August, a Tanzim terrorist from the Bethleham area, with a blue ID card, was caught under suspicion he was planning a suicide terror attack in the "Filter" cafe in Jerusalem. The suspect worked as a cook at the place and it seems he wanted to execute the terror attack to clean himself from suspicions he was cooperating with Israel.

Uzbekistan's Interior Minister Zokirjon Almatov said Saturday that police have made a number of arrests in connection with three near-simultaneous suicide attacks in Tashkent the day before, including one at the Israeli embassy that killed two Uzbek security personnel. A third Uzbek policeman died Saturday of wounds sustained in a similar attack at the United States embassy in the city, in which one other person was hurt. The third explosion at the general prosecutor's office in Tashkent left seven people wounded. An eight-string Israeli team, including a senior diplomat and security officials, were traveling Saturday to Tashkent to help investigate...

IDF Chief of Staff Ya`alon: Security forces foiled 15 suicide attacks over past 90 days, six in the Nablus area (Israel Radio)

KARBALA, Iraq - Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threatened Friday to unleash suicide bombers if U.S. troops move against him in Iraq's holiest Shiite city, and his militiamen attacked a Bulgarian convoy, killing a soldier. U.S. forces massed on the outskirts of Najaf have said they have no intention of moving in for the time being to capture al-Sadr - fully aware that an American entry into the holy city would spark a wave of outrage among Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority. But al-Sadr's comments and the bloody clash in the nearby city of Karbala were a show of defiance amid...

"Fighting against suicide bombers, you have to follow the assumptions that modern society uses when confronting viral epidemics," says Dr. Hanan Shai (Schwartz), an Israel Defense Forces reserve colonel and an expert on political and military strategy. Dr. Shai expounded this thesis in an address to the first international conference on limited conflict, held in March in Tel Aviv, and sponsored by the IDF. Shai admits that the analogy between human beings and viruses sounds infelicitous, however, he adds, "The confrontation with terror wrought by suicide strikers is like the fight against viruses in terms of the inability to seize...

A suicide bomber has blown up his vehicle beside US soldiers keeping order at a mass protest in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Two US soldiers and five Iraqi civilians were wounded in the blast, police say. Torhan Abdul Rahman, Kirkuk's police chief, said three of the wounded Iraqis were children. He said parts of the suicide bomber's body had been found in the destroyed car. The bomb was detonated in Kirkuk, 250 km north of Baghdad, as U. soldiers kept watch on a rally by supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr, a radical Muslim Shiite cleric. US helicopters circled the skies...

Palestinian terrorists tried to recruit a 15-year-old as a suicide bomber, at one point locking him in a dark room, but also luring him with clothes, a cell phone and promises of paradise, his family said Tuesday. The story of ninth-grader Tamer Khweirah, who was extricated by an alert older brother, underscored the growing use of children by militant groups and stoked Palestinian debate over what is permissible in the fight with Israel. Tamer is one of four teens arrested by the Israeli military in the West Bank city of Nablus in the past week on suspicion they were recruited...

A majority of Palestinians continues to support suicide attacks against Israeli civilians, according to a new public opinion poll published on Thursday by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Center (JMCC). The poll found that 61.8 percent of Palestinians supported suicide attacks, while 34.9% are opposed to this form of terrorism. Another 67.9% said they supported the resumption of "military operations" against Israel "as a suitable response within the current political conditions." Twenty-eight percent said they rejected such attacks and because they find them harmful to Palestinian national interests. A majority of 42.3% said they supported the resumption of attacks inside...

A demonstration was held this morning in New York City to mourn the victims of both of Tuesday's major terrorist attacks - the suicide bus bombing in Jerusalem and the truck bomb in Baghdad - carried out by Islamic terrorist organizations. It should be noted that former senior IDF intelligence officer Brig.-Gen. (res.) Aharon Levran, speaking with Arutz-7 this morning, said that both attacks are rooted in a similar source: "They are both the fault - not exclusively - of the U.S., both diplomatically and in terms of its war against terrorism. After all, where did all these suicide bombers...