Plan to disguise female bomber as Israeli ambulance volunteer foiled

[Herschel]

The General Security Service (GSS) has recently foiled a triple suicide bombing planned by the military wing of the mainstream Palestinian Fatah movement. The plot featured a female suicide bomber that was to dress up as a volunteer of Magen David Adom (MDA, Israel's emergency medical service).

The plan was thwarted after the would-be female bomber gave herself up to security forces. She revealed that two other members of her cell in Nablus were planning to board a bus in central Israel and blow themselves up. The female would-be bomber was instructed to wait, dressed in a MDA uniform, for the arrival of rescue forces and set off her explosive belt among them.

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http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=4282

Well done. I am curious as to how the life saving information on the other killers was extracted.

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[Herschel]

2. Giving herself up

does not mean she did so from a sudden burst of morality.

[lefty_mcduff]

3. Never claimed it did.

Probably more from 'self-preservation' - so what's you point?

[Herschel]

4. Perhaps I was mistaken

You seemed to imply in your original post she gave the information on the others voluntarily because she had "given herself up." If we agree her act was simply one of self-preservation after being discovered, we do not know how the information on the others was then extracted.

[lefty_mcduff]

5. I would assume

that someone who acts out of self-preservation would also be less likely to require torture. But you're right - we don't know how the information was extracted. Perhaps she was tortured.

Fantasize away.

[Herschel]

6. Indeed

Or perhaps the reputation of the Israeli authorities regarding methods of obtaining information was enough to compel her.

[Forkboy]

8. You two

stop before I get aroused.

[drdon326]

7. Nice story of no deaths...

I would like to think her "morality" led her to do this
as evidenced by her turning in the other two people.

I noted she was arrested and given what she did, one
hopes they are understanding with her.