Monday, June 20, 2005
No good deed goes unpunished. Also, more Koran flushing.
YNet: Palestinian woman tells interrogators she intended to blow up at southern hospital
...Gaza resident Wafa Samir Ibraim Bas, 21 was carrying more than 10 kilograms (more than 22 pounds) of explosives and was picked up thanks to electronic anti-terror means utilized at the crossing.
Army officials said the woman surrendered only after attempting to detonate the charge at the crossing itself.
The woman was scheduled to arrive at Soroka hospital in the Southern town of Be’er Sheva for some tests Monday, and was hoping to take advantage of the medical appointment to carry out a suicide attack.
During her interrogation, the would-be bomber said she was sent by the Fatah’s al-Aqsa Brigades. The group sought to utilize the humanitarian permits issued to the woman and instructed her to carry out the attack at the hospital, she said...
I wonder what the excuse will be (the horrors of roadblocks, the humiliation of having a brother who's a terrorist?).
Also, more copy-cat Koran flushables. At least Koran pages don't expand when they get wet and clog the pipes. This one's at Jewish Telegraphic Agency. I can't figure out how to do a permalink for it.
A Palestinian woman jailed in Israel was caught flushing pages of the Koran down her toilet.
Sunday's incident at Shikma Prison, which comes as the Prisons Service says Palestinian charges that guards desecrated prisoners' Korans are fabricated, ended when a guard fished the torn pages out of the water and confiscated them. Reports of Koran abuse at U.S. prisons have been linked to deadly global protests by Muslims.
