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Thursday, May 30, 2002

Palestinian woman tells of changing her mind, calling off planned suicide attack
[...] In recounting the episode, she said she was uncomfortable when her handlers told her to dress like a modern Israeli woman, with her hair loose, makeup, sunglasses and tight-fitting trousers.

"I didn't want to do this because it was against my religious beliefs," she told the newspapers.

Her disillusionment with her handlers grew when she was told that she should blow herself up before she reached the target if she thought she was going to be caught.

"Blow up for nothing? What is this -- trading in the blood of martyrs only so that my handlers can say that they executed the operation?" she said. [...]
What to say? Something is wrong when it's a greater sin to have your hair down than to commit murder. At least it appears Tawriya Hamamra thought long enough to come to the conclusion that possibly, just maybe, her handlers were not quite the righteous men she believed them to be.


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