Peres Theory Fails: Palestinian Bombing For Sex - Not Occupation and Poverty

[IMRA: Labor MK Shimon Peres lectured this week that suicide bombers are
motivated by the occupation and poverty. the latest bombing attempt was
motivated by a 14 year old Palestinians desire to have sex.]

Palestinian boy, 14, captured wearing explosives vest
Margot Dudkevitch The Jerusalem Post Mar. 24, 2004
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"Blowing myself up is the only chance I've got to have sex with 72 virgins
in the Garden of Eden," a 14-and-a-half-year-old Palestinian boy told his
Israeli investigators after being caught wearing an 8kg explosives belt.

Husam Muhammad Bilal Abdu from Masahiya neighborhood in Nablus was captured
Wednesday afternoon by IDF troops near the Hawara roadblock near Nablus, the
same place an 11-year-old boy was caught with a bomb last week.

"They told me that this was the only way, and they promised that my mother
would get one hundred shekels if I did this," Husam told his captors.

The Fatah Tanzim claimed responsibility for sending the would-be bomber,
Channel One reported Wednesday night.

The boy aroused suspicions when he reached the Hawara roadblock. Soldiers
from the Paratroopers 202 Brigade aimed their weapons at him, and he
panicked.

Seeing that the boy was "unusually swollen" around the chest area, he was
checked by soldiers at the roadblock, who ordered him to lift his t-shirt,
where they discovered a large gray suicide bomb belt on his chest with a
detonation device attached to it. Soldiers immediately jumped behind a
concrete barrier and trained their weapons on the boy again.

The area was shut down and sappers were brought in to neutralize the
explosives belt. A remote- controlled robot was sent out with a pair of
scissors to the would-be suicide bomber, who was instructed by sappers to
begin cutting the belt off of his chest.

He cut off part of it and struggled with the rest. "I don't how to get this
off," he said.

After he dropped the vest, soldiers ordered him to take off his undershirt
and jeans, to ensure he had no other weapons on him.

The belt contained 8kg of explosives, and was detonated in a controlled
explosion after it was taken off the Palestinian child.

Lt. Tamir Milrad, an officer at the checkpoint said, "We saw that he had
something under his shirt."

"He told us he didn't want to die. He didn't want to blow up," Milrad added.

Channel Two news reported that the boy received 100 NIS for carrying the
belt and exploding near Israeli targets.

Following the incident, IDF erected a blockade around Nablus. Channel 2
reported that security services have warnings of a wave of terror attempts
emanating from Nablus, a hotbed of Fatah Tanzim activity.

The boy's brother, Hussam Abdo, said he was mentally slow.

"He doesn't know anything, and he has intelligence of a 12 year old," his
brother, Hosni, said.

The incident was the latest in a series of foiled terrorist attacks
involving young Palestinians.

"No matter how many times Israel learns of the use of children for suicide
bombings, it is shocking on each occasion," said Dore Gold, an adviser to
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

"Israelis do not understand how Palestinians are willing to sacrifice their
own children in order to kill ours."

Last week, Fatah Tanzim terrorists in Nablus sent an 11-year-old boy to
smuggle a bomb through an IDF roadblock on Monday, and tried to detonate the
bomb when soldiers stopped him.

The men gave the boy a bag containing a seven-to-10 kilogram bomb stuffed
with bolts. They promised him a large sum of money if he would carry it
through the roadblock and hand it to a woman waiting on the other side.

Since 2001, more than 40 other minors who were involved in planning suicide
bombings have been arrested by security forces. Since May 2001, 22 shootings
and bombings were perpetrated by minors.