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| Middle East |
| Israel sez five boomers in the works... |
| 2002-06-17 |
| Defense Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer said early Monday the authorities had picked up intelligence that five Palestinian bombers were preparing new assaults in Israel. "We know the preparations are well along and these attacks could happen at any moment," the minister told Israeli state radio. The Yediot Aharonot newspaper said the would-be assalants comprised three men and two women. The army stepped up its surveillance of Palestinian towns it has surrounded while police were on a state of alert on the "green line" separating Israel and the West Bank, military sources said. The police, meanwhile, said they had thwarted three attempted bombings since May in Jerusalem, which has not seen a suicide attack since a Palestinian killed herself and six others near a crowded market on April 12. Get some good booms goin', with lotsa civilian casualties, and that goads the Israelis into hitting the PA infrastructure. Then... Well, then something will happen, and it won't be peace. If peace were to come, why, think of all the gunnies who'd have to get jobs! Then the donations would drop off from the the Soddies and the Iraqis, and Iran might cut funding. The Paleostinian mullahs would see their incomes dry up... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |