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Poll shows sharp drop in Palestinian support for suicide bombings |
| By: Associated Press |
| Published: April 13, 2005 |
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| Israeli soldiers hold a Palestinian boy at Hawara checkpoint near Nablus in Samaria Tuesday April 12, 2005. The 15-year-old boy was arrested when he was carrying five pipe bombs according to a Israeli military spokeswoman. He appears to have wet his pants. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh) |
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The Israeli army on Tuesday arrested a 15-year-old Palestinian boy who was carrying five pipe bombs at a busy West Bank checkpoint, a military spokeswoman said.
The spokeswoman said the boy, who was not identified, raised the suspicions of soldiers at the Hawara checkpoint outside Nablus when he appeared in a heavy winter coat on a day that temperatures exceeded 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit).
The spokeswoman said when soldiers isolated the boy and searched him, they found that he was carrying five pipe bombs.
The boy was detained for questioning, the spokeswoman said.
In April 2004, soldiers arrested a 16-year-old Palestinian boy with a suicide bomb strapped to his body at the same checkpoint. That boy, Hussam Abdo, later told an Israeli newspaper he was on a mission to kill Israeli soldiers. |
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