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From AP, with thanks to Jean-Luc:
ISRAELI troops yesterday arrested a boy, 12, who didn't know he had a bomb in his schoolbag.Security officials said the boy, who worked as a porter helping to carry the belongings of Palestinians forbidden to drive through a Nablus checkpoint, was hired to carry baggage by militants linked to Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement.
But he did not know the contents of the backpack.The commander of the army unit that caught the boy said soldiers' suspicions were aroused by the weight of the school bag. When they examined it, they found a bomb, laced with nuts and bolts to increase its killing power.
"It was a pretty serious bomb, between 7kg and 10kg," the officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Guy, said. "It was ready for detonation, apparently with a mobile phone."
Officials said the militants planned to explode it as the boy passed through the checkpoint, but it failed because of a technical fault. The explosion would have killed the boy and nearby soldiers.
Security sources said the boy was freed after several hours' questioning.
Israeli security officials said the army had received intelligence warnings of an attempt to mount an attack from Nablus.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday ruled out peace talks with Palestinians and began considering ways to retaliate for a weekend double suicide bombing that killed 10 Israelis.
"Israel will have to act according to its own understanding alone," he said, referring to his proposal for a unilateral withdrawal from most or all of Gaza, removal of Jewish settlements, and a realignment in the West Bank that would include evacuating some settlements and imposing a border.
Posted by Robert at March 17, 2004 11:00 AM
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The "technical fault" sounds like divine intervention and I am thankful the bomb did not explode, killing more innocent lives, including this 12-year old child... as a mother, this is painful to imagine.
Posted by: Cathy Palmer at March 17, 2004 1:31 PMthis proves my point that these people have no regard for life - be it one of "their own" or an infidel's.
horrid, blood thirsty death cult trying to dominate the world.
jihan
Posted by: jihan at March 17, 2004 2:10 PMIt's bad enough war has to involve innocent children to begin with; but to use a child to kill others is evil... It is just plain EVIL.
Posted by: paula at March 17, 2004 5:14 PMTypical of these cowards. They preach death and destruction but don't have the guts to do the fighting themselves. Better to send some poor fool who's stupid enough to swallow the party line and let them die. If their plan had worked they would have praised this young "martyr" and said how brave he was to have chosen this path. Wonder how the kid feels at having been almost made a "hero"?
Posted by: Hal at March 17, 2004 6:56 PMEveryone is expendable. No one is innocent, even childen, because they could grow up to become…
Use children as stalking horses, mules, bombers, soldiers, spies, whatever. Those that survive will become perfect little jihadis, well practiced in the arts.
Those that aren't on the battlefield are taught using vile textbooks: "If there are 2 Christians, 4 Jews, how many infidels can you kill with one bomb?" Answer-Many of them, even those that aren't included in this problem. Kiddies, be sure to set up your bomb where it can do the most damage.
Are you sure the child was duped? He may have been a practiced liar. In any case, they are all child abusers. I hope that we won't be reduced to educating our children in same way out of self-defense.
Posted by: epg at March 18, 2004 9:12 PM
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