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<p>The Air Force widow of an American killed last week by a terror bomb in Israel said the military dumped her after she got bone cancer, then refused to pay for any more medical treatments. But after a torrent of complaints from outraged family and friends, the Air Force said it was reviewing the case of Airman Courtney Linde, 21.</p>

AMMAN, 22 October 2003 — It matters little whether the mastermind behind the killing of three Americans in Gaza last week was a Palestinian group or Israeli intelligence. What’s of relevance, however, is that the Palestinian people will wholly bear the brunt of the incident. Censuring the weakest party is a habit that has infected the ongoing Middle East conflict for decades. To illustrate: Palestinian parents are still being customarily accused of recruiting their own children for “martyrdom” for the sake of some funneled dollars provided by Arab governments or for the sake of merely blemishing Israel’s image. With the...

On October 15, 2003, an American diplomatic convoy traveling in the Arab-controlled section of the Gaza Strip was tragically attacked by terrorist thugs. The result was twofold: the horrific murder of three American security personnel and America’s introduction to the Palestinian Authority’s “culture of death.” The explosive device was hidden in one of the many ruts pitting the sides of the main road through Gaza. The terrorists detonated the powerful bomb as the second of three armored vehicles of the American Embassy convoy passed. According to press reports, the terrorist attack was carefully orchestrated, ensuring that the remote-controlled weapon hit...

Three Americans — John Branchizio, Mark Parson, and John Martin Linde — were murdered last Wednesday when Arab terrorists in Gaza bombed the diplomatic convoy they were riding in. News accounts immediately described the attack as a first — "an unprecedented deadly attack on a US target in the Palestinian territories," to quote the Associated Press. But Branchizio, Parson, and Linde were not the first Americans to be murdered by Palestinian Arab terrorists. They were the 49th, 50th, and 51st in the past 10 years alone. A few hours after their deaths, the White House condemned "the vicious act of...

NYT, WaPo: Gaza Bombing America's Fault From LittleGreenFootballs.com/weblog Both the Washington Post and the New York Times have articles about yesterday’s attack that killed three Americans in Gaza, blaming it on Israel’s crackdown on smuggling tunnels in Rafah and the “one-sided” US support of Israel. (Hat tip: davesax.) They both sympathetically quote the same 17-year old Palestinian, with the lovely name of “Jihad Amari,” who was among the savages who stoned American rescue workers at the scene of the bombing. The WaPo: However, as Israel has demolished homes, assassinated suspected terrorists and established checkpoints and closures in the Palestinian territories...

The Lessons of the Gaza StrikeBy David BedeinFrontPageMagazine.com | October 17, 2003 Three American security personnel were killed in Gaza recently as they traveled through a war zone between PLO guerrillas and Israeli troops. Their deaths were bound to befall any foreign security personnel stationed between two warring entities. Their peace-keeping role is not noticed or appreciated. Yet the latest panacea for Middle East peace, now gaining momentum, is to dispatch American or European troops whose dual task would be to create a Palestinian Arab state and mitigate Arab terror at the same time. Foreign troops would seemingly solve the Middle...

Israeli security sources Thursday dismissed arrests made by Palestinian police in connection with the deadly roadside bombing of a United States diplomatic convoy in Gaza the day before, Army Radio reported. Palestinian authorities said earlier Thursday that they detained eight militants from the Popular Resistance Committees in connection with the bombing, in which three Americans were killed But Israel rejected the claim, the radio said, maintaining that the arrests were an imaginary measure designed to placate the U.S., and that there was no evidence to link the three to the attack. Among the militants arrested are former members of the...

<p>The three-year conflict between Israel and the Palestinians had previously killed 49 Americans, most with dual citizenship, and all in random attacks. Wednesday's bombing that killed three U.S. diplomats in Gaza was the first time Americans were intentionally targeted.</p> <p>Until now, the most notable American death was that of Rachel Corrie, an activist killed March 16 when she placed herself in front of an Israeli bulldozer destroying the home of a terrorist in Gaza.</p>

The agents will stay away from Gaza, allowing Israelis to gather the evidence; PA arrests 8 suspects. A special team of FBI investigators and forensic experts has landed in Israel Thursday afternoon to launch a probe into Wednesday's deadly road bomb attack on a US diplomatic convoy, in which three US body guards were killed. The FBI agents do not intend to go immediately to the site of the attack, the first to target US officials in the past three years of Intifada (despite previous attempts). Instead, they will rely on Israeli security officials, including Shin Bet investigators, to collect...

Text: Days before bomb attack on Americans, PA sermon: "take vengeance on the Jews and their allies" FBIS Report - Friday sermons broadcast from the West Bank and Gaza Strip on 10 October September 2003: [With thanks to www.mideastweb.org/mewnews1.htm ] WEST BANK & GAZA STRIP Gaza Palestine Satellite TV Channel in Arabic, official television station of the Palestinian Authority, carries at 0937 GMT a live sermon from Shaykh Zayid Bin-Sultan Al Nuhayyan mosque in Gaza. Shaykh Ibrahim Mudayris delivers the sermon, which he devotes to underscoring the strong link between the holy mosque in Mecca and Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem....

Palestinian 'militant' groups and terrorist organizations are distinguishable, huh? (KRT) The roadside bomb that killed three U.S. private security guards traveling in an official convoy in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday may also have claimed another casualty: the argument that Palestinian militant groups are distinguishable from terrorist organizations. Palestinian officials denounced the attack, and the militant groups denied responsibility. But members of Congress and terrorism analysts said the attack is likely to increase pressure on the U.S. government to treat Palestinian groups as kin to al-Qaida and its anti-American brethren. "All of these groups -- Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad...

Palestinian police arrested three members of the militant Popular Resistance Committees early Thursday in connection with the roadside bombing in the Gaza Strip the day before that killed three Americans, Palestinian Authority security officials said. A massive remote-controlled bomb demolished an armor-plated jeep in the convoy carrying U.S. diplomatic personnel through the northern Gaza Strip, including a cultural envoy from the U.S. embassy, on their way to interview potential Palestinian students who were candidates for an academic Fulbright scholarship. One other American was wounded. The group consists largely of former Palestinian security officials and disgruntled members of PA Chairman Yasser...

AN AMERICAN diplomatic convoy was bombed in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the day after the United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have condemned Israel for building a security fence in the West Bank. Evidently, terrorists remain unconvinced that the United States is serious about the war on terror. How could they get this impression? After all, we have removed the Taliban and Saddam Hussein from power. With all that has been accomplished in the war on terror, those who in darkness plot attacks against the United States remain unafraid. They fall into one of two...

<p>October 16, 2003 -- If the perpetrators of yesterday's terrorist attack on a U.S. diplomatic convoy in Gaza thought the bombing, which took three American lives, will frighten the United States into disengaging from the Middle East, they are sadly mistaken. On the contrary: They have driven home dramatically the threat posed by unrestrained Palestinian terrorism.</p>

Sources in Israel and in the Palestinian Authority were assessing that the Council of Popular Resistance, a Fatah splinter group comprised mainly of former Palestinian security forces was behind the Wednesday attack on an American diplomatic convoy in the north Gaza Strip that killed three U.S. security personnel. A massive remote-controlled bomb demolished an armor-plated jeep in the convoy carrying U.S. diplomatic personnel, including a cultural envoy from the U.S. embassy, on their way to interview potential Palestinian students who were candidates for an academic Fulbright scholarship. The U.S. named the three dead security men as John Branchizio, Mark Parson...

<p>The deaths yesterday of three employees of a Reston-based defense company protecting U.S. diplomats in the Gaza Strip highlight the explosive growth of &#8212; and growing perils to &#8212; private companies taking over jobs once the exclusive domain of government and the military.</p>

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL OCTOBER 15, 2003 - Benny Elon, A Cabinet Member of the Israeli Government, and member of the Israeli Parliament issued the following statement today regarding the bombing of an American convoy in Gaza today, and is available from Jerusalem for further interviews: "Our sympathies today go out to the families of the victims of brutal terrorism, and we share the pain felt by the American peoples. Our prayers and thoughts are with them." "After 10 years of suffering through the Oslo peace process, Wye peace accords and the "road map", the time has come that both we, the...

<p>JERUSALEM &#8212; Palestinian militants shifted their focus to American targets yesterday, blowing up a U.S. Embassy convoy in the Gaza Strip, killing three security guards and wounding another.</p> <p>It was the first deadly strike against the United States in the 3-year-old Palestinian intifada, or uprising, that until now had targeted Israeli soldiers and civilians.</p>

Poisoned by fanaticism - (Filed: 16/10/2003) Hamas and Islamic Jihad have good reason to deny responsibility for yesterday's terrorist attack on American intelligence personnel in the Gaza Strip. The explosion takes the Palestinians' insurgency on to a qualitatively new plane, placing them in serious conflict with the world's only superpower for the first time since the current intifada began in September 2000. Its most immediate effect will be to reinforce the widespread belief in America that Palestinian violence should be treated as an integral part of the war on terrorism. Such a move would also pose a challenge for Tony...

PMW has been documenting the duplicity of the Palestinian Authority towards the United States for years. In its English statements, the PA presents itself as an American ally, while its Arabic messages incite its people to hate and kill Americans. Never has this hypocrisy been more striking than today, after the Palestinian ambush that targeted and killed three American diplomats in the Gaza Strip. The official PA rushed to condemn the attack -- even as the PA-controlled media continues its relentless campaign of anti-American indoctrination. During the war in Iraq, the PA actively endorsed the killing of Americans, and even...