| Submit your comments on this article |
| Israel-Palestine |
| Israelis Stop Teen Wearing Bomb Vest |
| 2004-03-24 |
| HAWARA CHECKPOINT, West Bank (AP) - A 16-year-old Palestinian with a Actually the boy was on his way to school for Paleo show and tell. The soldiers, taking cover behind concrete barriers, sent a yellow army robot to bring scissors to the teenager so he could cut off the vest. They then made him strip to his underwear to ensure he was unarmed before detaining him. He’s really lucky they did not make him a sniper target given the level of tensions. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the latest in a series of foiled The family of the teenager, identified as Hussam Abdo, said he was gullible Officer Krupke, I’m depraved becasue I am deprived!! "He doesn’t know anything Since the Israeli assassination of Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin on Monday, Israel has been on high alert. Hamas has killed Wednesday’s confrontation began about 4 p.m. when soldiers at the Hawara checkpoint outside Nablus received intelligence a bomber was there. They shut down the crossing and began searching hundreds of people there, the military said. Suddenly Abdo, wearing an oversized red jersey, approached them. Yo Ibrahim! I can’t get this switch thingy to work. Can you help me? "We saw that he had something under his shirt," said Lt. Tamir Milrad. The soldiers took cover behind concrete barricades, pointed their guns at the teenager and ordered him to stop. On their orders, he took off his jersey, revealing a bulky gray bomb vest. "He told us he didn’t want to die. He didn’t want to blow up, The soldiers sent a small robot to hand Abdo scissors to cut off the vest, an incident captured in exclusive Associated Press Television News footage. The teenager cut off part of the vest and struggled with the rest. "I don’t how to get this off," he said in frustration before successfully removing it. No Mujadara for you tonight, son. Bad bomber! Bad bomber! Soldiers ordered him to take off his undershirt and pull down his jeans to make sure he had no other weapons. Then they arrested him. Sappers blew up the vest, which the army said was an 18-pound bomb. The military said Abdo’s mission was to kill soldiers at the crowded checkpoint. "In addition to the fact that he would have harmed my soldiers, he would have also harmed the Palestinians waiting at the checkpoint, and there were 200 to 300 Several teenagers have carried out suicide bombings over the past 3 1/2 years, and there has been recent concern that militant groups were turning to younger attackers to elude Israeli security checks. Wheel-chaired wusses and billionaire murderers are running out of warm bodies. Abdo, though 16, looked far younger, and the Israeli military initially said it believed he was 10 years old. Cudda sent him to his Maker, but they didn’t. On March 16, Israeli troops stopped an 11-year-old boy allegedly trying to smuggle explosives through the same checkpoint. Israel said militants had given the boy the explosives without his knowledge, either to ferry across the checkpoint or to be blown up by remote control when he got near soldiers. Palestinians and the boy disputed this, claiming the bag he was carrying - which was blown up by army sappers - contained auto parts. The Paleo car bomb. Don’t leave home without it. Last month, Israeli police arrested three boys, aged 12, 13 and 15, who said they were on their way to carry out a shooting attack in Israel. No honest, officer. No Paleo-adult would ever send a child to do a man’s job!! "No matter how many times Israel learns of the use of children for suicide bombings, it is shocking on each occasion," said Dore Gold, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. "Israelis do not understand how Palestinians are willing to sacrifice their own children in order to kill ours." If there was ever a justification for RU486, this is it. Physicians for Human Rights also condemned the militants’ use of children, calling it "illegal and immoral." How about mentally diseased and insane? After the incident Wednesday, the army brought out Abdo, who appeared shaken but Geraldo, where’s Geraldo? Maj. Sharon Feingold, an army spokeswoman, said reporters were not allowed to question the youth "for Abdo’s family said the teenager was not affiliated with any militant group, going to rallies for all of them and identifying with whichever one carried out the latest attack on Israelis. "My son Abdo is a Boy Scout!! It’s all a Jewish Plot!!" They said he acted strangely Tuesday, giving candy to his family and neighbors and refusing to explain why. Contemplating Murder and suicide has a strange effect on people. He got his hair cut in the style his mother, Tamam, likes and told her he would do anything she wants, she said. Hokay, mama. I go make big dinero for you and papa. "You never are like this," she said "What happened?" "I just want you to be happy with me," he responded. Ya little twit. Are you still here? Abdo left his house Wednesday morning saying he was going to school, but never arrived there. Yeah mama. I have a delivery to make before school, hokay? Hosni Abdo said he was furious with whoever persuaded his brother to strap on the bomb vest. "The ones who sent him are stupid, because the army will give him two slaps and he will tell them who sent him," Hosni Abdo said. And are they gonna be pised at the family. |
| Posted by:AKScott |