Sunday, March 5, 2006

Explosive Baby

Friday night 3 Israelis set off fire crackers during a service at the Roman Catholic Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth in northern Galilee. This is said to be the church where Gabriel told Mary that she would deliver Jesus. Haim Eliyahu Habibi, his wife Violet, and their 20 year old daughter entered the church with a baby carriage full of fire crackers and small gas cans. The family then interrupted the Lent prayer by throwing fire crackers and gas cans everywhere. Right away people of course tried to attack them, but the family was oddly defended by the police. Many threatened to lynch the family. When the police arrived, many people blocked the entrance of the church and blocked the family in. The family was eventually able to get out of the church disguised as police; they were then taken to a local hospital for mental questioning. Out of all the people at the church, only about 24 were injured and only two vehicles were attacked by rioters. After the incident there was a riot outside of the church because people believed that it was the governments fault or this because they should have known about this attack. This statement was partially based on the idea that this was not a terrorist attack. The family claimed that this only supposed to be to get attention and not harm any one. In my opinion it seems like this is not a terrorist attack as much as it is a mental issue because if it were meant to be a terrorist attack then there would have been more explosives.

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