March 17, 2004
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Courier, 11, seen as pawn in Mideast terror: Boy was unaware he carried bomb (Charles A. Radin, 3/17/2004, Boston Globe)
Israeli military and intelligence analysts were reexamining unsolved terror bombing cases yesterday, after an 11-year-old boy was stopped at a checkpoint with a 20-pound, nail-reinforced bomb in a backpack. Israeli and Palestinian officials said the boy did not know what he was carrying.Investigators said they were looking into whether this method could have been used in previous cases in which the route of bombs from their makers to their users was never discovered. The incident, the first time a child was found carrying a bomb unknowingly, seems likely to revive long-standing concerns on both sides about the willingness of Palestinian terrorists to involve children in their operations.
Eleven. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 17, 2004 8:22 AM
Yet another worthy cause for the Eurabian Union to sponsor. Children should be able to explode, er, express themselves, you know.
Posted by: at March 17, 2004 8:51 AMHow long until we hear complaints about the brutal Israelis singling out Palestinian children to search at border crossings?
Posted by: David Cohen at March 17, 2004 9:15 AMDavid: One month. Tops.
Posted by: Chris at March 17, 2004 9:34 AMLucianne's got an article up.
The boy doesn't believe them. They're lying.
Posted by: Sandy P. at March 17, 2004 10:00 AMSomehow I'm sure it is George Bush's fault. Isn't it?
Posted by: pchuck at March 17, 2004 10:28 AMWell, if instead of getting sidetracked by Iraq he had used his spare time to solve the Israeli/Palestinian problem, as John Kerry would have, we wouldn't have this proble.
Posted by: David Cohen at March 17, 2004 11:14 AMWell, if instead of getting sidetracked by Iraq he had used his spare time to solve the Israeli/Palestinian problem, as John Kerry would have, we wouldn't have this proble.
Posted by: David Cohen at March 17, 2004 11:27 AMThis is why I always ignore NPR's spin about teens or whatever were killed by the Israeli forces.
Posted by: Rick T. at March 17, 2004 1:29 PMRick - that's very true. Once you've seen pictures of the way the gunmen mingle with crowds of 'civilians', particularly children, then you begin to understand why the Arab world is so ****ed up. It is like Somalia, except more pre-meditated.
Posted by: jim hamlen at March 17, 2004 1:33 PM"Seems likely to revive long-standing concerns on both sides about the willingness of Palestinian terrorists to involve children in their operations"? Has the world gone insane? Even assuming one doesn't know that in most street battles with the IDF there are no "civilians" and those "bystanders" who get killed are often actively shielding the "militants," why would anyone pretend that these scum place any value on any human life (other than their own, despite their claims to love martyrdom and seek death)?
Posted by: brian at March 17, 2004 3:18 PMDavid,
Alas, there are only two realistic ways to "solve the Israeli/Palestinian problem".
One involves large quantities of bullets and/or JDAMs.
The other involves large numbers of people-movers (buses, trucks, etc.) shuttling back and forth between Gaza and the middle of the Sanai desert.
The way things are going, I'm truly afraid that the former is what's eventually going to happen.
Posted by: fred at March 17, 2004 4:10 PMDavid,
Alas, there are only two realistic ways to "solve the Israeli/Palestinian problem".
One involves large quantities of bullets and/or JDAMs.
The other involves large numbers of people-movers (buses, trucks, etc.) shuttling back and forth between Gaza and the middle of the Sanai desert.
The way things are going, I'm truly afraid that the former is what's eventually going to happen.
Posted by: fred at March 17, 2004 4:11 PM