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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (952)	12/2/2001 7:35:05 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 32591

Suicide bombers' relatives arrested By Etgar Lefkovits JERUSALEM (December 3) - Jerusalem was once again a city in mourning yesterday, as the 10 victims of the triple bombing late Saturday night were laid to rest. Meanwhile security officials worked to uncover those behind the bombings before they strike again. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement broadcast on Hizbullah's al-Manar television station in Lebanon yesterday, confirming the assessment of security officials. The victims of the bombing ranged in age from 14 to 20, and eight were Jerusalem residents. It was the second most deadly attack in the city in the 14 months since the current violence erupted, surpassed only by the August 9 suicide bombing at the nearby Sbarro pizzeria, in which 15 people were killed. Of the 175 people wounded, 84 remained in Jerusalem hospitals last night, including 10 in serious to very serious condition at Jerusalem's Hadassah- University Hospital, Ein Kerem. One of them was a newly demobilized soldier who suffered severe head injuries and shrapnel wounds all over his body. Jerusalem police announced last night that the two suicide bombers were Osama Muhammad Bahar, 25, and Nabil Mahmoud Halabiyeh, 24. Security officials arrested nine residents of Abu Dis on the outskirts of the city, all relatives of the suspected suicide bombers. Palestinian security officials confirmed that the bombers came from Abu Dis, and said one was close to Hamas, while the other had recently resigned from a Palestinian security service. The two disappeared from their homes a few days ago. Security forces carried out a number of military operations in the village yesterday, but Jerusalem Magistrate's Court has placed a gag order on all details of the investigation of the attack. As the victims of the attack were buried, those wounded in the attack wondered why they had been spared. Erez Cohen, 23, was lightly wounded in the attack by shrapnel, and said he could not understand why he had escaped death, even though he was at a coffee shop just meters away from the bombers. His brother, Hanan, 28, narrowly escaped death five years ago in a bombing on Egged's No. 18 bus. Noting that his older brother is afraid to visit him in the hospital because of the memories of his own trauma, Erez said: "He was 23 when he was wounded, and now I am 23." He said that he had just ordered his food when the suicide bombers blew themselves up. Then three bloody bodies fell on him, and Cohen started "running, running, and running." "I don't understand why I made it," he said. "God must love me."