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| Suicide Bomber Wounds 3 Israeli Troops | |
| 2003-05-19 | |
In the fourth Hamas suicide attack in two days, a Palestinian riding a bicycle detonated a bomb near an Israeli jeep in the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing himself and lightly injuring three soldiers. The spate of bombings by the Islamic militant group underscored how difficult it will be to carry out the U.S.-backed "road map" plan, a three-stage prescription for ending violence immediately and setting up a Palestinian state by 2005.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #7 We have been putting the heat on Syria to get Hez and Hamas out of that place and shut down. I do not think that this is really happening. To get rid of Hez and Hamas one will nead to cut off the money AND decapitate the leadership, and then see what else wiggles and needs a pop. The 'road map' (to hell) was an accommodation gesture to the Arab leadership. The time to negotiate with the Paleos is premature. The time to decapitate the terrorist leadership, both literally and figuratively, is now. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-05-19 18:23:11 |
| #6 mhw - The main purveyor of 'road map', is GWB. I'm not yet ready to call him an idiot. Agreed Bomb-o - Why is the Hamas leadership still taking air? They know who they are. (or they can check with Fred's Thugburg) In some cases they know WHERE they are. Why are they still alive? Why are the jihad preaching imams not in hiding for their lives (a la OBL)? How many more sheep get slaughtered, on both sides, before the shepherds are targeted? If no heads roll in Saudi, Syria and Pak, then we need to take the war to them. And I'm not talking about 4th division blunt force. That just kills conscripts and the occasional fanatic, while the power-brokers loot the antiquities and book it to Russia. If we don't start killing the roots, it's gonna be said that another Bush choked in the 4th quarter. |
| Posted by: Scott 2003-05-19 15:11:16 |
| #5 All the people involved in this need to realize that nothing is going to happen with Arafart and his cronies in any position of authority. Arafart and Co. need to be removed and the West Bank and Gaza cleaned out of "militants" and weapons before even thinking that any sort of plan for achieving any kind of peace between Paleos and Israelis is possible. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-05-19 11:41:26 |
| #4 ...which just goes to show you, even the donkeys (or, Asses) are smarter than the Paleos "Don't even THINK of strapping that pack on my back. I saw what what happened to eeyore a couple of months back... " |
| Posted by: Dripping sarcasm 2003-05-19 10:40:11 |
| #3 Hmm. I saw another report on this saying that the explosives weighed 60 pounds. With the roads as rough as they are I would think you would have to use a very stable compound for the explosives. |
| Posted by: mhw 2003-05-19 08:46:19 |
| #2 He probably intended to destroy the jeep by ramming it full speed with his bike; the explosives were only a back-up plan. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-05-19 08:06:00 |
| #1 Only idiots, State Dept drones or EU crats thought the 'road map' plan would be teneble in the first place. The most interesting thing about this is that the attempted murder used a bicycle. Using a bicycle probably reduces the amount of explosives you can carry. |
| Posted by: mhw 2003-05-19 07:18:50 |