Published: Jun 20, 2005 SHIKMA PRISON, Israel (AP) - A badly burned Palestinian woman was alternately defiant and tearful Monday after Israeli soldiers caught her trying to enter Israel with 22 pounds of explosives hidden on her body.
Posted on 06/20/2005 1:39:34 PM PDT by TheOtherOne
Palestinian Woman Heading for Treatment at Israeli Hospital Caught Carrying Explosives
Published: Jun 20, 2005 SHIKMA PRISON, Israel (AP) - A badly burned Palestinian woman was alternately defiant and tearful Monday after Israeli soldiers caught her trying to enter Israel with 22 pounds of explosives hidden on her body.
The woman, who suffered serious burns on her hands, feet and neck in a kitchen explosion five months ago, had been granted permission to cross into Israel from the Gaza Strip for medical treatment when she raised the suspicion of soldiers at the Erez checkpoint.
Video released by the military showed 21-year-old Wafa al-Biss taking off articles of clothing on the orders of soldiers searching for explosives, and rubbing her disfigured neck with her burned hands and screaming.
The military said she tried to blow up the explosives Monday but failed and was not injured.
At the Shikma Prison in Israel's Negev Desert, where the Shin Bet security service allowed Israeli TV reporters to interview her, al-Biss said she was determined to carry out a suicide attack against Israel because of its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
"My dream was to be a martyr," she said, adding that she was recruited by the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a violent offshoot of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement. "I believe in death."
Sitting calmly across from an Israeli TV interviewer, the young woman with large brown eyes and curly dark hair pulled back in a ponytail said her decision had nothing to do with her disfigurement, which might make her less desirable as a bride.
"Don't think that because of how I look I wanted to carry out an attack," said al-Biss. "Since I was a little girl I wanted to carry out an attack."
However, her story grew more contradictory as the interview progressed. After more than an hour, she began to lose her composure and changed her story.
In a separate interview with foreign reporters, she asserted that she had undergone treatment at a Gaza hospital for her burns, where someone apparently planted the explosives on her body without her knowledge.
"I did not intend to carry out an attack," she said, at which point Israeli security officials told reporters she was lying.
"I didn't kill anyone. Do you think they will forgive me? Do you think they will give me any mercy?" she asked. "I hope they show me mercy. I didn't kill anyone."
Then al-Biss terminated the interview, saying she was exhausted.
Israeli military spokeswoman Maj. Sharon Feingold expressed outrage that Palestinian militants used a humanitarian case as a suicide bomber.
"These terror organizations are not only the enemies of the Israelis, but also of the Palestinian people themselves, who suffer as a result of this abuse of the young, the sick, the wounded," she said.
At one point al-Biss agreed with a reporter that she might have been a victim of the militants, breaking down and sobbing, "Forgive me, mother."
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Send her to the dungeon.
Imagine these savages with the machinery of a state.
You mean like Iran, Syria, N. Korea?
Gee, I wonder how her kitchen exploded five months ago.
Probably a faulty George Foreman Grill.
And Libya, and Zimbabwe, and Cuba.
Palestinians are demented parasites.
"Israeli military spokeswoman Maj. Sharon Feingold expressed outrage that Palestinian militants used a humanitarian case as a suicide bomber."
Only when the love their children more than they hate the Jews....
As I've posted before, it's so much easier to teach their children to hate the Jews, to divert their people away from the misery of their lives and rise up in unified hatred rather than trying to improve their minds and lives.
A sad commentary on their existence. It will not survive another twenty years.
So if she was successful she would get 72 male sluts?
This is so pathetic. There have got to be better options for these people. Send in armed Gideons or something.
Througout human history that has been the case. It's far easier to provoke a fight with your neighbors than it is to set your own house straight. Remember the Falklands War?
And Israel is expected to make peace with these people. I don't think so.
Regards, Ivan
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The following are excerpts from an interview with Syrian historian and author Dr. Georgette 'Attiyya. Syrian TV aired this interview on June 15, 2005. Dr. Attiyya: The Palestinian woman's womb is a factory for the conflict; it produces fighting children. After this fighting child is produced, he is taught: "This is your land, this is your country, you will fight for it, stand on it, and die for it." Therefore, a very important connection exists between motherhood, land, and blood. |
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I think Palestinian moms want their children to grow up in peace just like American moms want their children to grow up in peace."
George W Bush
Someone is lying.
Forward her credentials to NARAL; they're always trying to replenish their thinning ranks.
Sorry, didn't mean that specifically for you.
>>>The woman, who suffered serious burns on her hands, feet and neck in a kitchen explosion five months ago>>>
Ummm, yeah. I believe this.
An error in setting bombing devices most likely.
Oh, knock it off, and get a grip. You know damn well that the president is using such language in an attempt to call all people to their highest and best. It serves no one any good to have the American president running around telling the world that he thinks all Palestinians are pigs. I, for one, don't want my president to run around telling everyone that we hate all Muslims. But you, are free to do that all you want. Just don't go about insinuating that the president a liar. We already have enough Leftists doing that.....
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