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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (9461)	12/2/2001 4:06:15 PM
From: ajs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Palestinians on suicide bomber: 'We are proud of him' By Mohammed Daraghmeh, The Associated Press NABLUS, West Bank – The suicide bomber who blew himself up on an Egged bus in Haifa today was a 21-year-old plumber who had gotten engaged six weeks ago and was preparing for his wedding, his stunned father said. Muhiy Habashi, 65, said he had no idea his son, Maher, had been recruited by the Islamic militant group Hamas. One of the assailant's younger brothers broke down in tears and had to be restrained while his mother sat in a room surrounded by grieving women, clinging to one of her four daughters. Outside, Hamas members fired in the air in celebration. Maher Habashi boarded a bus in Haifa around noon today, paid the fare of five shekels and within seconds set off the nail-studded explosives strapped to his body. The blast killed Habashi and 15 bus passengers and bystanders, police said. About 40 people were wounded. The elder Habashi, a municipal worker in Nablus, got word of his son's death after he returned home from evening prayers to join the family for the sundown meal that breaks the daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan. Habashi was stunned as neighbors and friends came to congratulate him. "He got engaged one-and-a-half months ago and we were getting ready for his wedding," Habashi said, crying and holding on to relatives for support. Hundreds of Palestinians filled Habashi's home and spilled out into the street, most coming to offer their congratulations and others, their sympathies. "Everybody feels bad when they lose their son," said Habashi's cousin Adel, 45,a school teacher. "But we are proud of him, you should be proud of him," he said to Habashi. jpost.com

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (9461)	12/2/2001 4:08:16 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

The Wailing Wall, as every historian knows, is the western retaining wall from the Herodian building program, which encased the Temple Mount in retaining walls, creating a 35-acre plaza for the Temple. (Due to Biblical strictures, Herod was not allowed to increase the actual size of the Temple, so he settled for expanding the plaza). It is the only surviving structure of the Herodian-era Temple. When the Romans destroyed the Temple in 70CE, they obliterated the Temple itself. The Romans did that sort of thing quite thoroughly. The Wailing Wall has a remained a sacred spot to Jews ever since in Jerusalem, which always has been and remains the most sacred city to Jews. Moslems, on the other hand, only care deeply about any part of Jerusalem when it is contention. During periods when Muslims have had uncontested control of Jerusalem, it has been a backwater town inhabited mostly by Jews and Christians. As it was in 1867, when Mark Twain visited, when he remarked that it had 14,000 inhabitants and a fast walker could walk around the walls in an hour.