ANALYSIS: WHY NO RECENT SUICIDE BOMBINGS?
by WebToday Editor Lawrence J. Joyce Pharmacist/Attorney-at-Law author of LESSONS FROM DUGWAY: What I Learned About Surviving Germ Warfare At The U.S. Army Proving Grounds (www.germwarfarebook.com)
(WebToday, April 9, 2002)-- A couple of weeks ago I was talking to someone about the fighting in the Middle East. "Have there been any more suicide bombings?" she asked. "What time is it now?" I replied in grim humor.
More than a week has gone by since the latest suicide bombing, however---the one in Haifa on Sunday, March 31 (Easter Sunday). So what gives? Don't the terrorists even care anymore about the intifada?
More than likely they're as rabid as ever---even more, so, I would suspect, now that Chairman Yasser Arafat is completely surrounded by Israeli troops and completely cut off from communication with the rest of the world. Yet therein may lie the very key to why we have seen no suicide bombings recently.
Arafat was surrounded on Friday morning, March 29th. His cell phone was still working for at least two days after that, but then died out. Now he is unable to talk to anyone outside of the rooms in which he and his fellow Palestinian leaders are entrapped.
Whether there is in fact a connection between the fact that
Arafat suddenly can no longer communicate with his friends and
the fact that the suicide bombings have suddenly stopped may be
entirely a coincidence. But one other possibility for the sudden
end to suicide bombings must be considered: Yasser Arafat's approval
is needed for every suicide bombing. And now his followers are
unable to get it.
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