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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (11310)	2/4/2002 10:13:06 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 23908

Hi Nadine. IMO a lot of these guys don't know that. Why would the USA want to try to control a world empire. And who the heck would they trade with if they own it all? Can you imagine trying to control a bunch of crazy arab muslims, That would be like...like...well like what's happening right now. Guys like " arafat the crazy " would be out of work. :o) Take care Lorne

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (11310)	2/4/2002 10:16:21 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 23908

She likely didn't even know she was about to die. "First woman suicide bomber" didn't mean to kill herself: Israeli police February 04, 2002, 08:17 PM JERUSALEM (AFP) - Wafa Idris, who has been called the first Palestinian woman suicide bomber, apparently had no intention of killing herself in the blast which rocked Jerusalem late last month, a senior Israeli police official said. "It is almost certain the bomb the young woman was carrying in a bag was supposed to be given to a man who was supposed to hide it or blow himself up with it," the official, who is close to the probe into the attack, told AFP, asking not to be named. Idris, 28, a former volunteer paramedic from Al-Amari refugee camp in Ramallah, West Bank, has been suspected of detonating a large explosive on Jaffa road, west Jerusalem's main street, on January 27. The blast also killed an 81-year-old Israeli and injured dozens of other people, and was subsequently claimed by a radical offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. Israeli police now suspect, according to the source, that Idris was prevented from transporting the bomb to its destination, possibly because of the many police deployed at that time in downtown Jerusalem. The explosion happened as she was rushing out of a shoe store, and investigators believe that was when she accidentally set off the bomb's sensitive trigger mechanism, the source said. A police spokesman, Inspector Gil Kleiman, told AFP it was "premature" to make such a conclusion, but stressed that "from the start, the police had serious doubts that the attack was a suicide operation." Unlike most of the Palestinian men who have traditionally carried out suicide attacks, Idris did not leave behind any documents or video testimony saying that she was going to kill herself. Family and friends who saw Idris hours before the Sunday morning blast have told interviewers that she gave no indications she would not see them again. A Fatah official from Ramallah who knew her personally also said he did not believe she had wanted to kill herself, according to the Israeli daily Haaretz. The attack put Israeli security on edge, wrecking their profile of the typical suicide bomber as a young Palestinian bachelor. Female border police reportedly began more vigorous screenings of Palestinian women entering Israel. Idris, a divorcee with no children, worked as a paramedic volunteer for the Red Crescent ambulance service. arabia.com