YNET Published: 10.12.08, 22:59 / Israel News
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Female soldier prevents attack: The IDF nabbed three Palestinians carrying
nine pipe bombs at a roadblock west of Nablus Sunday evening, apparently
averting a planned terror attack in Israel.

The attack was foiled as a result of the alertness and insistence of a
female soldier at the checkpoint. No injuries were reported in the incident.

The three Palestinians arrived at the roadblock from the direction of
Nablus. The female soldier asked one of them for an identification
card, but remained suspicious even after he showed her his ID.

At that point, the soldier asked the suspect to open his bag, yet he
refused. The soldier insisted, prompting the Palestinian to remove a shirt
and pants from the bag before closing it again. However, the soldier was not
satisfied, opened the bag herself, and found three pipe bombs inside it.

At that point, troops at the checkpoint activated a special emergency
procedure. The Palestinians suspect's two friends were also searched and
were found to carry three pipe bombs in each of their bags.

Sappers dispatched to the scene blew up the explosive devices in a
controlled detonation. Meanwhile, the three detainees were taken in for
interrogation.

A similar attack was thwarted at a different roadblock near Nablus last
week. A Palestinian who arrived at the checkpoint with a plastic bag aroused
the suspicions of Golani troops and members of the IDF's crossings' unit.
The soldiers dispatched a sapper, who discovered two small pipe bombs in the
bag and blew them up.