Chapter 3. Security Is the Mother of Invention
Southern Tel Aviv, February 6, 2003…
A month after a double suicide bombing savagely disrupted six weeks of relative quiet—killing 23 people and wounding another 120 near Tel Aviv's old central bus station—Israel's security forces closed off a busy section of Highway 57 that stretches between the coastal city of Netanya and the West Bank town of Nablus. On high alert, the army had received what it called "very accurate" intelligence reports warning of possible suicide bombers in the area, and the IDF closed in, setting up a surprise roadblock near the village of Talusa, just north of Nablus. Caught in the clot of traffic that ensnared travelers for hours late into that Thursday afternoon was a taxi ...
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