The Jew-Hating Press

Israeli forces today prevented a 14 year old from detonating a homicide bomb near a checkpoint. Only good intelligence and "the quick thinking of paratroopers" saved the boy's life--they "aimed their weapons at him, and he panicked."

In a tense scene captured in exclusive Associated Press Television News footage, soldiers jumped behind concrete barricades and sent a yellow robot to hand scissors to the 16-year-old boy [later determined to be 14] so he could cut off the vest. They then ordered him to strip to his underwear. Experts later detonated the bomb.

The AP video (click here, scroll part-way down the page, link on the left) shows the boy, the belt, the boy stripping and the (safe) explosion. So what's AP writer Ali Daraghmen's lede?

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

Is the boy's intent truly at issue? If so, why not accept the teen's confession?:

"Blowing myself up is the only chance I've got to have sex with 72 virgins in the Garden of Eden," Abdu said his handlers had told him.

Let's see: we have a Palestinian boy, seeking martyrdom, at a checkpoint, wearing a suicide vest, containing eight kilos of explosives, which later is detonated. What does AP suspect, an over-excited frat party?

It gets worse: AP published a vivid and clear photo of the boy wearing the belt. AP's caption identifies the teen as "member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine." Still, AP absurdly attempts to down-play the sickening scene:

Palestinian teenager Hussam Abdo, identified by neighbors as a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, stands isolated at a Israeli checkpoint south of the West Bank town of Nablus Wednesday March 24, 2004, while wearing an explosive-packed belt in this image from television. Israeli troops on high alert since the assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin stopped the youth and later disarmed the device. It was unclear if Abdo was being sent as a suicide bomber or was acting as a courier.

Unclear? AP's own video and photo plainly demonstrate that nothing's "unclear" about this event. Why the uncertainty?

Watch AP's tape and examine the photo. They're images of attempted murder. That's horrible. Worse still is AP's distortion of truth. Worst of all is the reason for the bias--because the intended victims were Jews. (via LGF.)