Militant waited 24 years to shoot Westerners

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September 7, 2006

BY JAMAL HALABY


RUSAIFA, Jordan -- A gunman waited for his children to grow up before he opened fire on tourists in Jordan, killing one, to avenge his brothers' deaths in an Israeli strike on Lebanon in the 1980s, the Jordanian government said Wednesday.

A neighbor said gunman Nabeel Ahmed Issa Jaourah may have ''hastened'' because of distress at the just-ended war in Lebanon, and recent images of children killed there and in the Gaza Strip.

''The images of kids killed in Lebanon and Palestine were painful to his eyes,'' said the neighbor of the Palestinian refugee, known to many in his poor community as an observant Muslim but not a militant. snip

Government spokesman Nasser Judeh said the gunman waited 24 years to carry out his attack ''because he wanted to have his children grow up.''