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  From:  David (DavidABrown)    Mar-16 5:25 pm  
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Source: http://web.israelinsider.com/

Terrorists try to blow up their 12-year-old courier near Israeli soldiers
By Ellis Shuman  March 16, 2004

An innocent-looking 12-year-old Palestinian boy approached the IDF's roadblock at Hawara, south of Nablus, yesterday, and tried to get past soldiers there with a school bag and other packages. An alert Border Policewoman saw that the bag was heavier than usual, and noticed suspicious wires inside. The Tanzim terrorists who dispatched the boy on his mission tried unsuccessfully to blow up their bomb near the soldiers. 

Abdallah Quran, a resident of the Balata refugee camp east of Nablus, reportedly makes his living by transferring bags from one side of the army roadblock to the other. "Yesterday I came to the barricade as usual and started shouting 'who wants to transfer their bags to the other side?'" he said. 

"A few people piled on their bags, and I waited for a few more because I get paid for every bag. A few people put their bags on my cart, and I don't remember who put the bag with the bomb," he said, quoted in the Israeli media. 

Some news reports listed Abdallah's age as ten and his home as being in the village of Hawara. 

Border Policewoman Moran Boknat saw that Abdallah's school bag looked relatively heavy for the young boy. "The first two bags were full of clothes, but then I asked him to open the backpack and I immediately realized something wasn't right," she said. 

"I opened the zipper and saw inside three white wires and a plate on which bullets were pasted. I ordered the boy to stand still and called the roadblock commander," she said. 

"A military policeman lifted the bag, which was heavy, and placed it on the table," Lt.-Col. Guy, a Paratroopers Brigade battalion commander told the Jerusalem Post. "The soldier noticed the boy was uneasy and, when she questioned him, he told her the bag didn't belong to him and he had been asked to take it through. She immediately alerted officers, and with the other soldiers, distanced everyone from the area. 

"When the boy's dispatchers saw he was being detained, they dialed the cellular phone inside the bag meant to detonate the bomb, but it failed to go off," he said. 

Two Tanzim terrorists based in Nablus exploited the boy's innocent appearance and used him, without his knowledge, in an attempt to pass the explosive device through the checkpoint, government officials said. The terrorists apparently planned to detonate the device by calling the cellular phone inside the bag in order to harm soldiers by using the boy as an unwitting suicide terrorists, the officials said. 

According to media reports, the bag contained 7-10 kilograms (15-22 lbs) of explosives. Sappers detonated the bomb safely in a controlled explosion. 

Abdallah Quran was detained for questioning, but was later released when it was determined that he didn't know he had been asked to transport a bomb. Earlier in the day, the Shin Bet intelligence service had issued a warning of possible attempts by terrorists to leave on suicide missions from Nablus. 

"We're not going to do anything with a boy like that, an innocent kid trying to earn his daily bread. Someone apparently promised him money for getting the bomb across," Lt.Col. Guy said. 

Guy said it is common for terrorist groups to use children or women as couriers for arms and explosives. "We have caught a 39-year-old mother of seven... with an explosive belt under her clothes," he said, adding that the woman was on her way into Israel from the West Bank when she was caught, the Jerusalem Post reported. 

Since the start of the Intifada in 2000, 29 suicide attacks have been perpetrated by minors under the age of 18, officials said. Since May 2001, 22 shootings attacks and attacks using explosive devices were carried out by youths under the age of 18. Since January 2001, more than 40 Palestinian minors have been arrested for involvement in attempts to perpetrate suicide attacks that were ultimately foiled, the officials said. 

Attorney Nala Atya, a human rights activist from Ramallah, told Army Radio this morning that no one in Palestinian society supports involving children in the conflict, but the harsh reality, despair and poverty had brought some to see their use as legitimate. 

 



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From:  David (DavidABrown)    Mar-19 10:10 am  
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Red-faced Arabs feel heat over boy bomber
By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff 
March 17, 2004 

Jerusalem www.jnewswire.com - Growing outrage over the use of a 12-year-old Arab boy to transport a terrorist bomb through an IDF checkpoint Monday has forced the "Palestinians" on the defensive. 

Residents of Shechem, including the boy himself, now refute Israel's version of events, and say the bag Abdullah Quran was transporting did not contain any explosives. 

But the use of women and children by terrorists is a well known phenomenon, which at least one "Palestinian" journalist admits Yasser Arafat's Fatah group is involved in up to its neck. 

A carefully cultivated culture of death has taught most "Palestinian" youngsters to seek out "martyrdom" by giving their lives in the terrorist war against Israel's Jews. 

Child bomb 

On Monday, young Abdullah Quran of Shechem was given a heavy bag to carry through an IDF checkpoint and deliver to a woman waiting on the other side. He was promised a small sum of money for successfully completing the task. 

When soldiers manning the checkpoint became suspicious and began questioning the boy, his terrorist handlers attempted to remotely detonate the 10-kilogram charge. 

The Jerusalem Post editorialized that the incident was not "just" a case of "child abuse, but child sacrifice. It is almost as if 'Palestinian' terrorists are trying to reach new depths of war crimes, matched only by previous uses of ambulances and pregnant women to carry out terrorist attacks." 

Scrambling to save face 

As outrage over the incident began to pour in, the "Palestinians" scrambled to refute the Israeli version of events. 

Residents of Shechem, including Quran and his family, told reporters a variety of contradictory stories Tuesday. 

Their accounts included claims that Israeli agents had given the boy the bomb, that there never was a bomb, and that Quran was beaten while in custody. 

Quran, who showed no signs of physical abuse, and who reportedly went pale when recounting the incident, said he doesn't believe the bag really contained a bomb, otherwise why would the soldiers have let him go? 

But soldiers at the checkpoint were convinced the boy was an innocent victim of terrorist manipulation, and was simply trying to make some money, the army said. 

Quran and tens of other young boys regularly act as legitimate couriers between the two sides of the IDF checkpoint. 

The IDF categorically denied having beaten the boy during his detention, and Quran himself earlier recounted how the soldiers had given him candies as he was questioned. 

A "Palestinian" journalist from Shechem told The Jerusalem Post that there is no reason to believe terrorists had not given Quran a bomb to transport. 

"There have been cases in which [Yasser Arafat's] Fatah used women and children to transfer bombs," he admitted. 

Double standard 

The world media, for its part, said barely a word about the incident, betraying a long-held double standard when it comes to reporting on the Israeli-Arab conflict. 

When a young Palestinian Arab boy was thought to have been killed by IDF fire in the Gaza Strip in October 2000, he quickly became an international symbol of supposed Israeli brutality. 

That Mohammed al-Dura was actually killed by "Palestinian" fire went largely unreported. 

Such behavior leaves the impression that the international media, long a "champion" of Palestinian Arab children, has little use for stories regarding the abuse of those children by their own people. 

Suffer the children 

The use of children by "Palestinian" terrorists is not an uncommon practice. 

Earlier in the month, a group of Arab children was apprehended en route to carry out a shooting attack against Israeli soldiers with makeshift weapons. 

Security officials said they have arrested some 29 "suicide" bombers under the age of 18, and another 40 minors involved in planning such attacks since September 2001. 

Underage "Palestinians" are regularly sent to test the IDF's response time to infiltration attempts against the Gaza Strip security fence. 

And at military checkpoints, where every Arab man is checked, children are often allowed to pass through unhindered, making them ideal couriers for terrorist bombs in a world of heightened Israeli security. 

Cultivated culture of death 

Nor do "Palestinian" children necessarily view being used by terrorists as a bad thing. 

The Palestinian Authority has long cultivated a culture of death among the next generation of Palestinian Arabs. 

Schoolchildren are regularly taught to regard death during violent confrontations with Israeli soldiers as honorable, while posters of favorite "suicide" bombers hang from classroom walls. 

Youth soccer teams are typically named after "suicide" bombers, and trading cards and other trinkets bearing the pictures of "Palestinian" mass murderers are popular commodities. 

Children's television programs on official PA-controlled TV push the idea of martyrdom among children at the youngest ages.

 



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From:  Uncle Tommy (TCASTEN1)   Mar-21 9:25 pm  
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I say we nuke 'em all into the stone age. Then this problem will no longer exist. Darned terrorists. 
  
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  From:  David (DavidABrown)    Mar-22 7:07 am  
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Or teach them all the Truth and the Love of the Gospel to Love God  and to Love one another and to let God have the oversight of His creation.

 

God Bless you,
David A. Brown



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  From:  David (DavidABrown)    Mar-24 8:06 am  
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Source: www.JPost.com

Mar. 24, 2004 15:40  | Updated Mar. 24, 2004 17:41
IDF nabs young boy with bomb belt
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH

A young Palestinian boy wearing a suicide bomber belt was captured Wednesday afternoon by IDF troops near the Hawara roadblock near Nablus, the same place an 11-year-old boy was caught with a bomb last week. 

According to media reports, the child ran in the direction of IDF soldiers apparently with the intention of exploding the belt. Soldiers stopped the child and discovered the explosives belt. 

The area was shut down and sappers began to defuse the belt that was still on the boy's body. 

Last week, Fatah Tanzim activists in Nablus attempted to use an 11-year-old boy to smuggle a bomb through an IDF roadblock on Monday, and tried to detonate the bomb when soldiers stopped him. 

The men gave the boy a bag containing a seven-to-10 kilogram bomb stuffed with bolts. They promised him a large sum of money if he would carry it through the roadblock and hand it to a woman waiting on the other side. 

Since 2001, more than 40 other minors who were involved in planning suicide bombings have been arrested by security forces. Since May 2001, 22 shootings and bombings were perpetrated by minors.

 



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   From:  Uncle Tommy (TCASTEN1)   Mar-24 10:22 am  
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Even if you did teach them about God, they probably wouldn't understand. I mean, they aren't very good at making bombs that work. This is the second one in a row that failed. Apparently, they aren't too bright. 
  
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