Document: Official PA Website Calls Suicide Bomber "Resistance Activist"

[IMRA: The International Press Center (IPC) is one of the PA's State
Information Service (SIS) main departments. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is part
of Yasser Arafat and Abu Ala's Fatah. It is important to note that since
the PA considers suicide bombers "resistance activists" rather than
"terrorists" photo opportunities in which PA officials announce that they
will fight terror are meaningless.]

Palestinian Resistance Activist Killed , Israeli Troops Wound Several
Civilians, Jewish Settlers Take over Lands
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2003/2003-11/010.html

PALESTINE, November 4, 2003 (IPC+ Agencies)[Official PA website]-- Sobaih
Abu S'aud, 18, of the West Bank city of Nablus, has been killed Monday,
after having been attempted to carry out a resistance operation against
Israeli soldiers stationed at the military checkpoint of near the Azoun area
of Nablus, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades statement, reported by Aljazeera.net,
said.

"Sobaih, loaded with explosive devices around his body, rushed towards a
number of Israeli soldiers, manning a military checkpoint on the entrance of
Azoun town, and blew himself up."

Israeli sources said the explosion left no injuries among the soldiers.

The statement made clear that such an operation, which took place in an
occupied Palestinian territory against an Israeli military checkpoint, is a
part of a series of resistance operations against the Israeli occupying
forces which continue to grip military control over Nablus city and other
areas of the Occupied Palestinain Territories OPT.
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