Israeli troops caught a 14-year-old Palestinian would-be bomber at a West Bank checkpoint. Wednesday’s arrest at the Hawara checkpoint near Nablus followed the discovery last week of a bomb that had been slipped into the bag of a 10-year-old Palestinian porter there.
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