In another raid, the (Israeli) army arrested a 14-year-old Palestinian boy who told his interrogators that militants from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades which has ties to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement pressured him to carry out a suicide bombing after he quarreled with his father.
Militant groups have increasingly turned to youths to carry out attacks in recent years, hoping the army would be less suspicious of them. The boy, identified by militants and his parents as Salah al Jitan, would have been one of the youngest Palestinian suicide bombers.
Salah’s parents, who confirmed their son is 14, said that after they quarreled with him about a month ago, five armed Al-Aqsa militants came to their house to tell them to leave the boy alone. Last week, they came again, this time to take him away for a suicide bombing, said his father, Moussa al Jitan.
The father said Salah did not want to go, adding that he would not let them take him. The teenager did not leave the house until Israeli forces arrested him Monday, a move his parents welcomed.
Terrorists, geez. I hate those guys.
(H/T to Smash for the link)
Update: Looks like there’s not a whole lot of job security in the terror business either:
BEIRUT, Oct. 12 — Syria’s interior minister was found dead Wednesday in his office in the Syrian capital, Damascus, in what the government described as a suicide. The death of Maj. Gen. Ghazi Kanaan came just days before the planned release of a U.N. report on suspected Syrian involvement in the car-bomb assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister.
Kanaan, 63, who for two decades was Syria’s top intelligence official here in neighboring Lebanon, fatally shot himself, according to a statement issued by SANA, the official Syrian news agency. The statement gave no further details, saying only that an official investigation had been launched.
Brig. Gen. Ghazi Kenaan, the Syrian minister of interior. Syria’s interior minister, one of several top officials caught up in a U.N. investigation into the slaying of Lebanon’s former prime minister, died Wednesday Oct. 12, 2005.
Brig. Gen. Ghazi Kenaan, the Syrian minister of interior. Syria’s interior minister, one of several top officials caught up in a U.N. investigation into the slaying of Lebanon’s former prime minister, died Wednesday Oct. 12, 2005. (Sana – AP)
Syria and Lebanon“The Syrian government was shocked by this death,” Syrian Ambassador Imad Moustapha said in Washington.
Shocked, do you hear? Shocked!
“That [state] which separates its?ɬ
“That [state] which separates its’ scholars from its’ warriors will have its’ thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools.” Thucydides
Have fun stormin the castle, boys.