An Israeli Arab woman and her two teen-age sons suffocated while sleeping in a sealed room the family had prepared in case of a possible Iraqi attack. The woman, 37, and her 13- and 14-year-old sons died from lack of oxygen due Sunday night to a coal-run heater they used to warm the room.
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