Four American soldiers died Saturday in the first suicide attack of Operation Iraqi Freedom. "The bomber struck at a U.S. checkpoint on the highway north of the city of Najaf," the Associated Press reports. "A taxi stopped close to the checkpoint, and the driver waved for help. The soldiers approached the car, and it exploded, Capt. Andrew Wallace told Associated Press Television News."
The Iraqi regime identified the killer as Ali Jaafar al-Noamani, "a noncommissioned army officer and father of several children." Those kids may have lost a father, but their father gained 72 virgins.
Palestinian Arabs wasted no time in lionizing Noamani. The Jerusalem Post reports Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority changed the name of the main square in Jenin from Mosque Square to Noamani Square:
"We want to honor the brave Iraqi officer who carried out the first suicide attack against the American and British occupiers," a senior Palestinian official in Jenin told The Jerusalem Post.
"We hope there will be more suicide operations in the coming days."
Arafat won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994.
The Iraqi regime identified the killer as Ali Jaafar al-Noamani, "a noncommissioned army officer and father of several children." Those kids may have lost a father, but their father gained 72 virgins.
Palestinian Arabs wasted no time in lionizing Noamani. The Jerusalem Post reports Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority changed the name of the main square in Jenin from Mosque Square to Noamani Square:
"We want to honor the brave Iraqi officer who carried out the first suicide attack against the American and British occupiers," a senior Palestinian official in Jenin told The Jerusalem Post.
"We hope there will be more suicide operations in the coming days."
Arafat won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994.
