Bomber Called His Mother Before Blowing Himself Up

(Washington Post/AP) - Just before blowing himself up near an ice cream parlor in Petah Tikva, killing a grandmother and her baby granddaughter and wounding over 50 including 13 children, Jihad Titi called his mother. Haleema Titi told the Associated Press: "I said, 'Oh, son, I hope your operation will succeed.'" Her husband, Ibrahim, said he wished his son had carried a nuclear bomb. The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a terrorist group linked to Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the bombing.


2002-05-29 00:00:00

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