The 'engineer' (Bombmaker's account of Jenin battle)

Al-Ahram Weekly Online ^ | 18 - 24 April 2002 | Jonathon Cook

[d4now]

I sure hope the IDF is careful in Gaza tonight. The terrorists have had weeks to get ready.

[CrossCheck]

Omar didn't say whether the sniper was a Palie or an Israeli. He also didn't indicate as to whether the victim had booby-trapped himself. I've heard somewhere that the Palies are fond of suicide bombings.

[tet68]

OK Jonathon, lesson #1. Guys with one arm who make pipe bombs are not called "Engineers" they are called terrorist pipe bombers.

Lesson #2. Why were you talking to him when you should have told the IDF where he was?

[Torie]

Definitely relevant evidence. Obviously, one issue is whether or not everyone was a warrior. Once we get the body count of woman and children, and the testimony of the IDF, maybe we will get a better sense of this. I hope and trust the Israeli authorities will comment on their view of why the body count of woman and children.

[monkeyshine]

So has the IDF. And they've learned a thing or two.

[Big Dan]

BTTT

[Big Dan]

I have a running commentary trying to explain the goings-on in the Middle East while my girlfriend watches the VCR tape of Peter Jennings sigh and shrug through his reports.

It's really valuable for me to tell her exactly what he will and won't be saying. I used to shudder to watch that jerk, and still do, but now I stay informed so I can tell her what Jennings will ignore or forget to mention even before it shows up in my house.

He does have good diction, though.

Once we caught a glimpse of Carol Simpson arranging her hair when she came back from a commercial! LOFLMAO!

[Nam Vet]

Hell, I made a rocket when I was 11 or 12 (That's the '50's). A pipe bomb is nothing but a glorified M-80.( Cherry Bombs and firecrackers in the Jumbo size) Everyone acts like these terrorist sh*t-tricks are akin to rocket science. These a**hole pali's would surrender in a flash if if we turned our teens on them with NO limit to their shenagins. My Dad owned a Tool & Die Shop. I could have made their rockets as an apprentice in my first year.

Nam Vet