Interesting interview. A FOX reporter meets with an aspiring terrorist.
Rafat Moussa Turkouman has a face you don’t want to forget.Yeah, I'll be on the lookout for him if I'm ever in Tel Aviv.
He looks like your average 20-year-old, but this young Palestinian from Jenin was a member of the Islamic Jihad with dreams of becoming a homicide bomber and plans to blow up a bus in Tel Aviv.How does one "dream" of blowing oneself up? The dream doesn't get past that point does it? Kind of a short dream. I'd dream about all the cool stuff I'd have to do before then.
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In the interview among tombstones in a local graveyard, the boyish, clean-cut young man with an easy laugh said he was willing to kill himself and others “because of the Israeli aggression against our people, the violence we watch on TV of them killing our children, assassinating our people.”So are you aware that you've been completely brainwashed? Did they tell you about the 72 goats, too?
But the recent ceasefire in the region put Turkouman’s plans on hold.Man, that's gotta be traumatic.
"Rafat, what you got goin' on this afternoon?"
"Well, Abdullah, I was gonna blow myself up, but this stupid cease-fire, man. Sucks. Let's go to the mall."
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FOX News asked Turkouman whether he was glad the brigade convinced him not to carry out a homicide bombing. He didn’t understand the question, but replied “yes” after some members whispered to him.So he's a puppet (I would guess most suicide bombers are) and he lets others do his talking. What an influential guy.Turkouman didn’t seem able to think for himself. He barely understood FOX’s questions, even in his native Arabic, and the brigade commanders told him what to say. He appeared extremely vulnerable to peer pressure.
But to the Israelis, Turkouman is a ticking bomb and should be diffused.No kidding.
In the past, when the Israelis had intelligence about a bomber, they’d storm his hiding place in the West Bank to pre-empt the attack.I love FOX. Reuters would've written that sentence like this:
"In the past, when the spies at Mossad thought some random Palestinian might be dangerous one day, the invading Israeli army would bomb his mosque, shell his town, rape his wife and murder his children. Then they'd arrest him."
Sorry. Just seemed like a good time to take a shot at the MSM. Moving on...
[snip] blah blah blah some terrorists are waiting to find out when they can kill women and children again blah blah blah [snip]
But what is particularly troubling is that Turkouman says he hasn’t abandoned his plan of conducting a homicide bombing if he gets the chance.Well, the Israelis should put out an APB on this guy and demand that the Paleswinians arrest him and hand him over. It really is too bad they can't just shoot him right now, but a cease-fire is a cease-fire. What's really surprising is the terrorists are actually upholding it.“If the ceasefire collapses, I will go for it again,” he told FOX News, laughing.
Well, if the Israelis can't shoot him yet, maybe somebody else can. FOX should've sent Melinda Hawkish. She'd have done the job.
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