Would-be suicide bomber caught en route to Tel Aviv

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Israel Defense Forces soldiers on Friday caught a terrorist from Fatah's military wing en route to carrying out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. The man was arrested in Israeli territory, near the Gaza Strip.

The terrorist, an 18-year -old from the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, crossed the perimeter fence with another Palestinian near Nir-Am, west of Sderot. Security forces had no intelligence warning regarding the planned attack. IDF trackers spotted the infiltration and located the bomber in a field, more than a kilometer inside Israel. The IDF sector brigade commander, Colonel Avi Levy, told Haaretz that the terrorist was wearing a five-kilogram explosives belt, which also contained nails and metal scraps intended to maximize the force of impact. Sapper neutralized the device in a controled explosion.

The terrorist was handed over to the Shin Bet security service for questioning. He told the arresting soldiers that he had been instructed to blow himself up in a crowded spot in central Tel Aviv.

A short while later, police and Shin Bet forces arrested his guide, a Palestinian married to an Israeli Arab, who lives in Jaffa and has an Israeli identification card

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[Wetzelbill]

1. good catch

saved that poor kid from blowing himself up and killing a lot of others for a terrible reason.

[drdon326]

2. (((((THUD)))))

WOW....NICE.....I AGREE.

I dont know your postings but i'm glad you didnt go into the usual anti-idf rant. Thank you.

[Wetzelbill]

3. well yeah

It's easy to jump on the IDF they can be brutal etc. But, hey, they prevented this kid from killing himself and others and that is a damn good thing.