Israelis arrest 14-year-old 'suicide attack boy'
12/10/2005 - 10:10:11The Israeli army today said it had arrested a 14-year-old Palestinian boy who allegedly was to be forced by militants to carry out a suicide bombing.
The boy, a resident of the West Bank city in Nablus, told interrogators that militants pressured him to carry out the attack after the youth quarrelled with his father.
He said the militants threatened to kill him and distribute a statement claiming he was a collaborator with Israel if he didn’t carry out their orders.
It was not immediately clear how the attack was thwarted.
The attacker would have been one of the youngest suicide bombers during five years of conflict.
Militant groups have increasingly turned to youths to carry out attacks in recent years because teenagers are likely to raise less suspicion with the army.
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