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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2002
Police blame Israelis for blast
The Associated Press
HEBRON, West Bank Israeli police and Palestinian officials in the West Bank said they believed extremist Jewish settlers planted two bombs in a Palestinian school yard yesterday. One device exploded, injuring five children.
Yehoshua Mor-Yosef, spokesman for the Jewish Settlers' Council, said the bombing was an "immoral and illegal act."
Israeli military officials said the explosion occurred near a water cooler in the courtyard of the Ziff junction secondary school south of Hebron. The second bomb was found and safely detonated. The Israeli military controls the junction, a remote region populated mainly by Bedouins.
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres' office, meanwhile, said the government had rejected a Palestinian cease-fire proposal during a meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York.
The proposal by Palestinian Cabinet Minister Nabil Shaath
called for an end to Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians in a first phase and an end to all attacks in the second. Peres' office said the plan was unacceptable because it would allow attacks on those not classified as civilians during its first phase. That was taken to mean Jewish settlers and soldiers in the West Bank and Gaza.
Shaath said the cease-fire also called for an Israeli commitment to stop killing suspected Palestinian militants and destroying houses. "If Israel will do that, then this will pave a way for a comprehensive cease-fire, but unfortunately Mr. Peres said that he rejects it," the Palestinian minister said.
In other developments, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected a petition by the families of two Palestinian suicide bombers to prevent the destruction of their homes by Israeli forces. Army Radio reported. The two bombers carried out a Dec. 1 attack in which 11 Israelis were killed. Relatives denied they knew of the suicide attackers' plans.
Israeli troops entered the Khan Younis refuge camp in Gaza earlier yesterday and blew up metal workshops where the Israelis say Palestinians are making weapons, the latest in a series of almost nightly raids by Israeli forces in Gaza.
Last night, Israeli forces destroyed a house in the Gaza-Egypt border, residents said. The area is the scene of frequent clashes, and Israeli forces often uncover hideouts there used for smuggling contraband into Gaza.
The school yard bomb went off just after recess ended at 9:45 a.m. A 6-year-old boy was among the five injured children.
On July 26, Palestinians killed an Israeli couple, their 9-year-old son and a soldier from Hebron in an ambush at the same junction.
Palestinian Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat said he held the Israeli government responsible for yesterday's bombing. Israel "failed to bring any of those who kill Palestinians in cold blood to justice," he said.
E-mail preceded Times Square shootings
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — An insurance executive who killed two coworkers and himself had recently received an e-mail from one of the victims ending their relationship, investigators said yesterday.
The shootings took place at Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield's offices near Times Square, where the health insurance company temporarily relocated after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The employees found dead had escaped from the World Trade Center.
John Harrison, a former FBI
agent and assistant vice president at Empire Blue Cross, called subordinates Vincent BiLaianca, 34, and Isabel Munoz, 36, into his office Monday morning, before most employees had arrived.
Wielding two pistols, Harrison, 53, fired more than a dozen shots before killing himself.
Police said Harrison had been in a relationship with Munoz. Shortly before Monday's violence, Munoz sent Harrison an email saying she did not want him to leave his wife and that she wanted to end their affair, investigators said.
Investigators said Harrison
had recently moved out of his family's New Jersey home and into an apartment so he could continue the affair with Munoz.
A police official speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity said yesterday that detectives had found no evidence suggesting Munoz and LaBianca had any romantic connection.
Unable to find any evidence to support the love-triangle theory, Harrison's motive for killing Bianca remained unclear, the police source said.
The three colleagues worked in the company's fraud investigation unit.
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