Скачать или смотреть Teenage boy gets caught wearing explosive vest

(24 Mar 2004)

1. Wide shot, Hawara checkpoint, outskirts of Nablus
2. Boy standing with hands on his head, bomb vest visible around his chest and waist
3. Wide shot, scene
4. Bomb disposal robot approaching boy
5. Israeli soldier standing well back
6. Boy - following instructions - picking up cutting device and cutting the straps of the bomb vest
7. Various, boy standing with straps cut, turning around so Israeli personnel can see the vest
8. Various, boy taking off his T-shirt
9. Boy - following instructions - pushing his trousers down
10. Wide shot, scene


STORYLINE:

A Palestinian teenager approached a crowded West Bank checkpoint wearing a suicide bomb vest on Wednesday in what Israel said was an effort to kill soldiers there.

Soldiers jumped behind concrete barricades and sent a yellow robot to hand scissors to the 16-year-old boy so he could cut off the vest.

They then ordered him to strip to his underwear.

Sappers detonated the bomb.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the incident.

The family of the boy, Hussam Abdo, said he was mentally slow.

"He doesn't know anything, and he has intelligence of a 12 year old," his brother, Hosni, said.

The incident was the latest in a series of what Israel says are foiled militant attacks involving young Palestinians.

Soldiers at the Hawara checkpoint outside Nablus said they received intelligence that there was an imminent attack planned there, shut down the crossing and began searching people there.

Suddenly Abdo, wearing an oversized red jersey, approached them in a suspicious way, said Lt. Tamir Milrad, an officer at the checkpoint.

The soldiers retreated behind concrete barricades, pointed their guns at him and told him to stop.

They ordered him to take off his jersey, revealing a large grey bomb vest underneath.

"He told us he didn't want to die. He didn't want to blow up," he said.

The soldiers then sent a small yellow robot to hand scissors to the boy so he could cut off the vest, an incident captured in exclusive Associated Press Television News footage.

After he dropped the vest, soldiers ordered him to take off his undershirt and jeans, to ensure he had no other weapons on him.

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