Israelis arrest teenage suicide bomber: army

[drdon326]

Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian teenager with a bomb belt tied around his waist at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday, the army said.

Troops manning the Hawara checkpoint near Nablus became suspicious of a Palestinian teenager passing through on Sunday evening, an army spokeswoman said.

"The teenager was asked to lift up his shirt and it revealed a bomb belt containing two pipe bombs tied around his waist," she said.

The youth apparently intended to detonate the bombs at the checkpoint by igniting a crude detonator with a cigarette lighter, the spokeswoman said.

Palestinian residents identified the youth as 15-year-old Ahmed al-Nadi from the Askar refugee camp. He was taken for questioning and his bomb was defused by sappers.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050522/ts_nm/mideast_bomber_dc

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That cant possibly be true......I find that hard to believe.

[drdon326]

1. I'm hurt........not one response?......no one ???

well.....

from the article.

The army spokeswoman said it was the 14th time in the past two months that a Palestinian teenager had attempted to detonate a bomb or smuggle arms and explosives through a military checkpoint despite a de facto truce declared in February.

Gee.....using teenagers.

[drdon326]

2. Yeah, great post drdon.

like who cares what you have to say.

[drdon326]

3. Oh....thats real nice.

can we say "personal attack" ??

[Behind the Aegis]

4. Stop the attacks!

DrDon did NOT attack you! You are too "sensitive." We know the "real" reason you are playing the victim card! We are not fooled!

HEEHEE!!!

I was away at my brother's Jewish/Christian wedding and I have been easing back into posting. I did read this post. I think it would be great if a new DU feature was the number of times a post was 'read.' I saw you were on vacation too...welcome back!

BtA

PS...it seems this room is moving VERY slowly as of recent....how interesting.

[Colorado Blue]

5. Welcome Home Dr. Don and Behind the Aegis!!!

I am avoiding the magic box for a few days because it stresses me out.

But, I'm glad you're both back and both OK.

PS, I'd glad those kids were intercepted before they could hurt themselves and everybody else! There have been two in a row now, just the past couple of days.