World News 05-09-2001 Schoolchildren See Suicide Bomber Blown Apart who: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) what: Blamed for suicide bombing at school where: Israel when: Yesterday snippet: "A Palestinian disguised as an observant Jew blew himself up at rush hour yesterday morning outside the French school in Jerusalem, wounding 15 people," reports The Telegraph. "My car was splattered with pieces of flesh and blood," says a Radio France journalist who was dropping off his 12-year-old daughter Ines at school. "My daughter was also covered with bits of flesh and blood. We saw the head of the suicide bomber rolling into the courtyard." It was the fifth bombing in Israel in 24 hours, reports The Independent, but the first time in the 11-month intifada that a bomber had used a disguise "to penetrate Israel`s tightening security net," says Phil Reeves. Hundreds of Israeli soldiers have been deployed in response. "There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack," says Stephen Farrell in The Times, "but it happened at 7.45am, the same time as bomb attacks the previous day by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [PFLP]." [... more]

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