Tuesday, September 21, 2004

UNDERWEAR BOMBER PLANNED TO ATTACK SOCCER STADIUM

Underwear bomber planned to attack soccer stadium
The would be suicide bomber caught at the Erez crossing on August 31 wearing an explosive belt sewn into his underpants planned to blow up at the Bloomfield Stadium in Jaffa during a football match three days later. In an interview on Channel 10, Mohammed al Razak said he had been approached by Hamas terrorists in Gaza who asked him to carry out the attack and had received two payments of $200 but said he was not a member of the Hamas. Razak - who lived for over thirty years in Jaffa and worked in Bat Yam, a Jaffa bakery and the central bus station in Tel Aviv - said that he was glad he had been caught, as he doubted he could have detonated the bomb when the time came.

He refused to divulge the reason why he agreed to go ahead with the plan but cited family reasons. He said that he had walked two or three meters past the checkpoint at Erez when a female soldier called out to him to stop. Undergoing an inspection he told the soldiers he was wearing explosives when they questioned the bulky pants.

WHEN A FEMALE SOLDIERS NOTICED HE HAD "BULKY PANTS," SHE "CALLED OUT TO HIM TO STOP." HE ADMITTED HE WAS GOING TO EXPLODE. IS IT JUST ME, OR CAN THIS STORY BE READ IN TWO WAYS?

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