Wednesday, February 06, 2008

A caffeine boost

Dimona Suicide Bomber Had Coffee First -Laurie Copans

Revital Biton, owner of Revital's World Class Pizza in Dimona, said she wished she had called police when the jittery Arab man came in. Her customer was the bomber.

"Coffee, quick!" the bearded young man in a red coat demanded, Biton recounted. "He was tense, his eyes darting back and forth with worry....He looked strange to me."
(AP)

UPDATE:

The Israeli Lesson -Editorial

The news about Monday's suicide bombing in the Israeli town of Dimona is that it's the first in more than a year. This didn't happen by accident, or because Palestinian radicals have somehow become less hostile to Israel.

Key to Israel's increasingly successful antiterrorist efforts has been the construction of its ostensibly "illegal" security fence, its equally "illegal" targeted assassinations of key terrorist leaders, its "disproportional" attacks on terrorist enclaves in Jenin and elsewhere, and other actions that saved innocent lives.

As Israel put pressure on terrorist leaders, they were forced to spend their time running for their lives rather than planning the next attack. As Israel set up physical obstacles to terrorism, the need for large-scale military incursions declined...
(Wall Street Journal)

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