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Je 17 Mar 2007 21:03:10 -0700, Jimmy_Ray@hotmail.com skribis:

>Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for
>decades - some of them American citizens.
>
>While organizations that focus on Israel-Palestine have long been
>aware that Israeli border officials regularly strip search men and
>women, If Americans Knew appears to be the first organization that has
>specifically investigated the policy of strip searching women. In the
>course of its investigation, If Americans Knew was astonished to learn
>that Israeli officials have also been strip searching young girls - as
>young as seven and below.

It's a sad piece of news.  But what's worse:  being strip-searched or
being blown up?

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6473359.stm

[U.S.] Gen Michael Barbero said a vehicle stopped at a checkpoint was
waved through because two children were seen in the back, but was then
detonated.

Militants were changing tactics in response to tighter security, he
said.

Five people including the children died and another seven were injured
in the attack, in Baghdad on Sunday.

Gen Barbero said there had been also two adults in the car. They
parked it near a market, abandoned it with the children inside and
apparently detonated it.

The two children died, along with three civilians in the vicinity,
officials said. 


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