The Palestinians hit a new low

As if the endless anti-semitic enticement and encouragement directed a Palestinian children wasn't enough, they're now using kids as unwitting suicide bombers. (An astronaut will walk on Planet Sedna before the UN gets around to condemning this.)

Troops at a West Bank checkpoint arrested a 12-year-old boy today as he unknowingly tried to smuggle a bomb out of the West Bank city of Nablus, the army said.
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Palestinians said the boy, from the poverty-ridden Balata refugee camp on the southern edge of the city, worked as a porter at the nearby Huwwara checkpoint, helping to carry the belongings of Palestinians forbidden to drive through.

The officials said that the militants planned to explode the device as the boy passed through the checkpoint, but failed because of a technical fault. The explosion would have killed the boy and nearby soldiers.

The Israeli army is hardly an unbiased source, so it's possible this story is just propaganda. But it's certainly believable.

Boy used as bomb dupe [17mar04]