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Israeli Troops Roll Into Nablus, Jenin
This was unexpected. Heh.
Israeli troops and tanks moved into the West Bank towns of Nablus and Jenin early Thursday, searching for Palestinian militants in the wake of a devastating suicide bombing earlier in the week. Shots rang out in Jenin after some 20 tanks, personnel carriers and other vehicles entered, but there were no immediate reports of casualties in either town. A curfew was imposed in central Nablus after more than 30 vehicles — mostly trucks and a few tanks — entered the town. Troops were carrying out searches for bomb laboratories and wanted Palestinians, an Israeli military source said. No arrests were made in the latest raids, though on Wednesday night six wanted Palestinians were arrested in the area of Jenin, the source said.
"Moshe, we ready back there?"
"Yep, Ari, got the giggle juice and the pliers."
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved a series of ``pinpoint’’ military strikes in response to a suicide bombing that killed 20 and injured more than 100 in Jerusalem on Tuesday. On Wednesday night, Israeli troops shot and killed one Palestinian 16-year-old and wounded at least five others in the northern West Bank town of Tulkarem, Palestinian witnesses said. An Israeli military source said the troops came under fire while seeking to arrest wanted Palestinians and fired back. Palestinian witnesses, however, said the teenager was unarmed. The troops later left.
And we all know how reliable Paleo witnesses are!
"They wuz just standin' there, mindin' they own bidnid, when these Zionists, they starts shootin' fer no reason!"
In a village just outside Jenin, troops early Thursday also demolished the home of a suicide bomber who blew himself up last month, killing one Israeli woman. The army regularly destroys the homes of suicide bombers in an effort to dissuade others from attacks.
Next time put his handler inside the house before you blow it.
The Israeli military maintains security responsibility in Tulkarem, Jenin and Nablus, among other West Bank towns. As part of the current U.S.-backed ``road map’’ peace plan, Israeli soldiers pulled out of parts of the Gaza Strip and Bethlehem in the West Bank in July. The plan requires a gradual Israeli withdrawal to positions held before the outbreak of fighting, and a Palestinian crackdown on militants.
I think I know the spin on this one, and it isn’t going to be ’cause and effect.’
Posted by: Steve White 2003-08-21
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=17825