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December 27, 2004
A former terrorist speaks
Walid Shoebat is an alias.
[H]e was a terrorist, Shoebat said. He and friends tried to lynch an Israeli soldier. Once he was recruited to carry a bomb to destroy a Jewish bank and should have died when it exploded. His life was spared because he disobeyed his instructions, Shoebat said, explaining that he had seen Palestinian children playing in front of the institution and didn't want to harm them. Instead of putting the bomb in a wastebasket at the bank's entrance, as he had been ordered, he put it on the roof.
"It exploded at 6 p.m. exactly," Shoebat said, explaining that he had been told not to part with the bomb until that time.
As a college student in Chicago, he surreptitiously raised funds for the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
Shoebat was born of a palestinian father and an American, Christian mother. He moved to America and he is now an evangelical Christian. He was interviewed by the St. Petersburg, Florida Neighborhood Times before speaking at a Jewish synagogue in St. Petersburg.
Posted by LindaSoG at December 27, 2004 08:25 PM