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Jerusalem News 821
2 December 2008 5 Kislev 5769
Contents:
1. Study: 292 Arab Children Killed in
Terrorist Role
2. Indian Terrorists Concentrated on Torturing Jewish Victims
3. Obama
Aide Wants the USA to Invade Israel
1. Study: 292 Arab Children Killed in
Terrorist Role
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128576
by Maayana Miskin
(IsraelNN.com) Almost 300 children have been killed while taking part in
terrorist attacks over the past eight years, a new study conducted by
Palestinian Authority researcher Mahdi Jaradat has revealed. A total of 3,973 PA
Arabs died in the past eight years while committing acts of terrorism, he found.
Fatah had the most fatalities, with a total of 1,437 terrorists, 128 of them
children, killed since September 28, 2000. Hamas was in second place with 1,410
killed in the same time period, 96 of them minors. Fifty-three children were
killed while taking part in Islamic Jihad operations, five were killed as
members of the PFLP, four died with the DFLP, and three with PRC.
Women, too
Women were increasingly numbered among terrorists as well. A total of 95 women
were killed while carrying out attacks, Jaradat found. Thirty-four women were
killed working with Hamas, and 30 with Fatah. Islamic Jihad, which had a much
lower casualty rate than Hamas and Fatah overall, counted 24 women among its
casualties.
Hamas carried out more suicide bombings than any other group over the past eight
years, with a total of 72. Islamic Jihad was next with 48 suicide bombings, and
Fatah was third with 42. Each of the three groups used women as suicide bombers,
a move that was initially controversial due to traditional Muslim views that saw
warfare as out of bounds for women.
According to the IDF, 29 suicide bombers were PA youths under the age of 18.
Several youths as young as 14 and 15 have been caught attempting to approach
checkpoints with bombs. One such would-be bomber told soldiers that terrorists
offered him NIS 100 to transport explosives; another said terrorists had
threatened him and told him they would accuse him of providing information to
Israeli security forces?a capital offense in PA-controlled areas?if he did not
do as they said. A third youth arrested while wearing a bomb belt was mentally
disabled. He was safely disarmed.
Incitement
Israeli and American researchers have warned that many PA youths are encouraged
to die as terrorists. While more blatant incitement to murder and death as a
terrorist can be found in media outlets such as Hamas' TV station for children,
another common source of incitement and hate is PA textbooks, which often leave
Israel off of Middle East maps and hail slain terrorists as ?martyrs.?
Respect for child suicide attackers can be found within the PA parliament as
well: Legislator Maryam Farhat, more commonly known as Umm Nidal, sent three of
her sons to commit suicide attacks. One was only 17 when he took part in a
suicide attack in the town of Atzmona in which five Israeli teens were murdered.
2. Indian Terrorists Concentrated on
Torturing Jewish Victims
Doctors: Terrorist Torture of Jewish Victims 'Beyond Words'
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128629
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Extracts:
(IsraelNN.com) Mumbai doctors who examined the bodies of the victims of the
Muslim terror massacre said the victims were tortured before being slaughtered.
"Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks," a
doctor who performed a post-mortem told the Indian news website Rediff.com.
"Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks.
"It was clear that they were killed on Wednesday. It was obvious that they were
tied up and tortured before they were killed. It was so bad that I do not want
to go over the details even in my head again," he said.
Another doctor commented, "It was very strange. I have seen so many dead bodies
in my life, and was yet traumatized. A bomb blast victim's body might have been
torn apart and could be a very disturbing sight. But the bodies of the victims
in this attack bore such signs about the kind of violence of urban warfare that
I am still unable to put my thoughts to words," he said.
Intelligence officials confirmed the doctors' observations. Ajmal Kamal, the
only terrorist who was not killed after he and his gang had managed to murder
nearly 200 people and wound hundreds others, told officials that the terrorists
"were specifically asked to target the foreigners, especially the Israelis."
Intelligence Bureau sources were quoted as estimating that the terrorists did
not want to keep them alive in order not to attract international attention.
"They also might have feared the chances of Israeli security agencies taking
over the operations at the Nariman House," otherwise known as the Chabad House,
he reasoned.
3.
Obama
Aid Wants the USA to Invade Israel
Samantha Power
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Power
Extracts:
Born September 21, 1970 (1970-09-21) (age 38)
Ireland
Residence United States
Nationality American
Irish
Fields Public policy, human rights
2008 Obama presidential campaign
Known for Work on genocide and human rights
Samantha Power (born September 21, 1970, in Ireland) is an Irish American
journalist, writer, and academic.
She is currently affiliated with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at
Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Power has been a winner of
the Pulitzer Prize and was a senior adviser to U.S. Democratic Party
presidential candidate Barack Obama until March 2008 when she resigned, later
rejoining the Obama State Department transition team in late November 2008.
Power was born and raised in Ireland before emigrating to the United States in
1979.
In 2004, Power was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 top scientists and
thinkers of that year.[3]
In fall 2007, she began writing a regular column for Time.
Power spent 2005-06 working in the office of U.S. Senator Barack Obama as a
foreign policy fellow, where she was credited with sparking and directing
Obama's interest in the Darfur conflict[4]. She served as a senior foreign
policy adviser to Obama's 2008 presidential campaign until she was forced to
resign for referring to Hillary Clinton as "a monster". Power apologized for the
remarks made in an interview with The Scotsman in London, and resigned from the
campaign shortly thereafter.
Regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Power said in 2002, that if she were
an advisor to the U.S. President she would recommend investing "billions of
dollars, not in servicing Israel's military, but actually investing in the new
state of Palestine, in investing the billions of dollars it would probably take,
also, to support what will have to be a mammoth protection force [in Palestine],
not of the old Rwanda kind, but a meaningful military presence", even though
this may alienate "a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial
import".
After the 2008 presidential election, Power returned to Obama's team, and
currently is a member of the transition team. She is working on Department of
State. It is unclear if Power will get a position in department.
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