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

To: Sojourner Smith who wrote (2851)	4/19/2002 12:44:19 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 32591

Miracles In Gush Katif Today's attempted terrorism in Gush Katif included a 100-kg. explosive, a car bomb, and would-be infiltrations: IDF sappers dismantled a huge bomb found on the road to Netzarim this morning. The powerful bomb, placed there by terrorists during the night, contained no less than 100 kilograms of explosives... Shortly before 10 AM this morning, a carbomb exploded outside an IDF position in southern Gaza, on Israel's southern Mediterranean coast, killing only the Palestinian terrorist sitting inside. The soldiers noticed the suspicious car, signaled it to stop - and then it exploded, lightly wounding two soldiers... IDF forces shot and killed a terrorist armed with a pipe bomb from infiltrating the community of Dugit in the northern Gaza Strip... Terrorists also shot at IDF soldiers in Gaza in another incident today... Near Netzarim, in northern Gaza, two Palestinian terrorists dressed as IDF soldiers were killed early this morning on their way to an attack. IDF soldiers noticed them carrying a ladder and armed with Kalachnikov rifles. Terrorist attempts continued in other areas as well. In the Arab village of Fajar, south of Efrat, a 17-year-old girl was apprehended this morning shortly before she was about to set off for a suicide attack against Israelis. The girl who carried out last Friday's suicide attack in Machaneh Yehuda, murdering six people in the process, was a relative of today's would-be terrorist, and the two are from the same village... At the entrance to the Israeli-Arab town of Taibe, between the PA-controlled cities of Tul Karem and Kalkilye, a bomb exploded this morning. No one was hurt, and police are investigating… A terrorist tried to stab a Border Guard police officer near the Israeli-Arab city of Um el Fahm this morning; he was shot before he could carry out his plot...