A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up when Israeli troops tried to search him at a roadblock in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, killing an Israeli soldier and two other Palestinians. A passenger who had unwittingly shared the same taxi as the bomber said soldiers stopped the car at an impromptu roadblock near the city of Tulkarm and asked young men to get out. "The man got out slowly, closed his jacket and blew himself up," said Nafez Shahin, 48. The army said the roadblock had been set up in response to intelligence warnings that a bomber was heading to Israel to strike during the current Hanukkah holiday.... http://abcnews.go.com censor News |
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