# Using an 11 year old as a Human Bomb **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 16, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-an-11-year-old-as-a-human-bomb/234693 "2004-03-16T19:45:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-an-11-year-old-as-a-human-bomb/234693/81 "2004-03-26T19:37:33Z")
\*\* Mehitabel\*\*, I thought something [like this](http://www.biologia.pl/nowosci/schizo.jpg). Do you think he chain-smokes as well? Oooo, that’s bad. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-an-11-year-old-as-a-human-bomb/234693/82 "2004-03-26T19:47:25Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I sawe an article in today’s _Times_ about Palestinians _finally_ starting to protest suicide bombings, after the two recent children were sent out and was somwhat heartened . . . Till I read some of the quotes: > > _“No one the age of my son should be used to commit such acts. This was a total shock to me,” said Tamam Abdo, 50. Hussam is the youngest of her six children. “Maybe if he is 20, then perhaps I could understand,” she said of her own son. “At that age, they know what they are doing, they are fighting for their homeland.”_ > > Ah. So it’s only adults who should go out and murder innocent people. You beat me to the punch on this one. I saw that gem in the paper this AM and was going to post it. Sick. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-an-11-year-old-as-a-human-bomb/234693/83 "2004-03-27T09:12:20Z")
**Aldebaran** , your source is al-Jazeera? That’s like citing the National Enquirer. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-an-11-year-old-as-a-human-bomb/234693/84 "2004-03-27T13:55:39Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > **Aldebaran** , your source is al-Jazeera? That’s like citing the National Enquirer. why would you think so? I’m not vouching for the point of view espoused in the article linked, but why the doubt of the veracity of al-Jazeera? ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-an-11-year-old-as-a-human-bomb/234693/85 "2004-03-27T15:44:58Z")
Another boy killed. 6 years old, this time. Both parties blame each-other. [Here’s the link](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3574059.stm) _A BBC article. I hope that’s biased towards the Palestinians enough?_ I feel sorry for the parents, but I heartily condemn them too. Who leaves a 6 year old standing in front of an open window, when there’s a shooting going on? I saw on TV [believe me, our news is just as pro-palestine as the BBC] dozens of little kids throwing rocks and molotov cocktails at the Israeli tanks. What parent let his child do that? Are they insane? ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-an-11-year-old-as-a-human-bomb/234693/86 "2004-03-27T17:29:08Z")
> [@gum](#): > > Another boy killed. 6 years old, this time. Both parties blame each-other. [Here’s the link](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3574059.stm) > > _A BBC article. I hope that’s biased towards the Palestinians enough?_ > > I feel sorry for the parents, but I heartily condemn them too. Who leaves a 6 year old standing in front of an open window, when there’s a shooting going on? > > I saw on TV [believe me, our news is just as pro-palestine as the BBC] dozens of little kids throwing rocks and molotov cocktails at the Israeli tanks. What parent let his child do that? Are they insane? Circumstantial evidence only, from Ha’Aretz (but quoting AP sources). It appears [that the Israeli version may have credence](http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/409142.html) From the link: > [@Ha'Aretz](#): > > Associated Press Television News footage shows a line of jeeps being pelted by stones as troops drive through one of the camp’s alleys. At one point, a bullet hits the top right fender of the lead jeep, and moments later, screaming is heard and several people carry a boy into the street. Whichever way it happened, it is terrible no matter how he got shot ☹ Dani ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-an-11-year-old-as-a-human-bomb/234693/87 "2004-03-27T19:03:38Z")
Thanks, **Noone Special** I’m afraid to quote from the Ha’Aretz. Because, you know, it’s an _Israeli_ newspaper. People might think they’re biased. :rolleyes: The fact that they’re mostly correct doesn’t change that. I have the feeling - mark my words; I said ‘feeling’ - the BBC and their likes are still on the overtaken “palestinians are victims” theory. As long as they are, it’s safe to quote them on this message board. But I agree with you: It’s terrible. No matter how he was shot. ---
**Author:** ![Necro\_Romancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/50afbb/32.png) [@Necro\_Romancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necro_Romancer)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-an-11-year-old-as-a-human-bomb/234693/88 "2004-03-27T23:12:58Z")
Why doubt the veracity of al-Jazeera? > [@National Review Online](#): > > Months before the U.S. engagement began, two audiotapes were aired by al-Jazeera in which Osama bin Laden called on Muslims to fight for Baghdad as the “second capital of Islam” ? not as the center of Saddam’s Baath. al-Jazeera was to use the term repeatedly, slowly building up the illusion that such a jihad would be fought for Iraq, not for Saddam. Interviews with religious fundamentalist leaders multiplied. The pressure eventually led al-Azhar, the Vatican of Sunni Islam, to call for jihad if Baghdad were to be attacked. That call, now “news,” in turn was broadcasted by al-Jazeera. Call it an electronic fatwa. By the time allied forces invade Iraq and the region’s fundamentalist masses explode, al-Jazeera has not merely reported the fact ? it has created it. [From here](http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-phares032603.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Necro\_Romancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/50afbb/32.png) [@Necro\_Romancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necro_Romancer)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-an-11-year-old-as-a-human-bomb/234693/89 "2004-03-27T23:19:58Z")
If anyone has any reason to believe Ha’Aretz reports the news incorrectly, let them show their proof. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-an-11-year-old-as-a-human-bomb/234693.md?page=4)