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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 (4462)	5/20/2002 2:54:36 AM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Suicide bomber kills self near junction in north By Jalal Bana, Ha'aretz Correspondent, and Ha'aretz Service Rescue workers search the scene of a suicide bombing in the Netanya market Sunday. (Photo: Reuters) A suicide bomber killed himself early Monday near the Ta'anachim junction in northern Israel after Border Police troops approached him, a police official said. The incident came a day after a suicide bomber killed three people and wounded at least 56 in Netanya's open-air market. The incident occurred at about 7:20 A.M near a bus stop at the Ta'anachim junction when a man tried to get on a bus picking up workers who were going to a nearby factory. When told it was a private bus, he disembarked but suspicious passengers alerted the police by mobile phone, police said. The blast occurred when two members of a police patrol approached the man and asked for his identity papers. "We spoke to him and asked him who he was. He began to move back and then exploded," patrolman Nayef Ghanem told Army radio. Therewere no other injuries in the incident. Police believed the bomber was on his way to the nearby town of Afula, which has been a target of previous attacks. As Palestinians braced for possible retaliation for the Netanya explosion, IDF forces carried out searches overnight for suspected terrorists in the West Bank town of Tul Karm and Israeli armored vehicles entered part of the West Bank city of Ramallah, but there was no indication Monday of a large-scale Israeli military response. An army spokeswoman said a force including armored personnel carriers, but no tanks, entered Ramallah after shots were fired at an Israeli motorist traveling to a nearby West Bank settlement. The driver was unhurt, she added. The troops withdrew a short time later, without any contact with Palestinians, the spokeswoman said. "This campaign of terror continues unabated and so does Israel's daily battle against these terrorists. Israel will know how to respond as it deems fit," said David Baker, an official in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office. The Netanya explosion was the 12th terrorist bombing in the town in recent years. Yosef Haviv, 70, and Arkadi Wiselman, 39, a Russian immigrant, were identified as two of the dead in Netanya. The two will be buried Monday afternoon in Netanya. The name of the third victim has not yet been released. A suicide bombing in which 29 people died at a Passover seder in a Netanya hotel on March 27 triggered Israel's West Bank offensive two days later. Early in May, Israel called off a Gaza Strip offensive planned following a Palestinian suicide bombing that killed 15 Israelis near Tel Aviv. On Sunday the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said it carried out the Netanya attack. The militant Islamic Hamas also claimed responsibility. U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said in Washington the Netanya attack "underscores the importance of reform of the Palestinian Authority...of getting a unified security apparatus that can be accountable and can deal with issues of terrorism and breaking up terrorist networks".

To: Scoobah who wrote (4462)	5/20/2002 10:12:09 AM
From: art slott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

I wonder what Mr. Galloway thought of the IRA when they killed those 26 Irish Protestant men, women, and children. Or when they blew up civilians in England. After all they are fighting for freedom from British oppression. As were people all over the world at one time or another. >>Pro-Palestinian activists have received logistic and financial support from left-wing organizations, as well as encouragement from some Labor Party MPs, including George Galloway, who is married to a Palestinian, and Jeremy Corbyn. At a discussion at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies on May 2, Galloway was reported as saying: "The suicide bombers are freedom fighters, not terrorists. I salute all of the fighters and all of the martyrs of Palestine ... Children throwing stones and becoming suicide bombers are heroes ... we must support the PLO and assist them in wiping out the Zionist entity." <