NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams had a segment Thursday night on a Palestinian ninth grader who was caught attempting to smuggle a pipe bomb across an Israeli checkpoint.
Reporter Martin Fletcher focuses responsibility on the Al Aqsa Martrys’ Brigade, whom both the boy and his mother blame for his thwarted mission. See the video here (in Explorer browser only) — click on ‘Video: Teen suicide bomber speaks’
The Jerusalem Post had a similar report on the boy, Mohammed al-Nadi, noting:
This is the fifteenth incident in the past two months in which Palestinian youths under the age of 18 have attempted to detonate explosive devices at checkpoints or smuggle weapons via the crossings.
