Judge in Israel Acquits Student of Failing to Prevent Suicide Bombing

An Israeli Arab student accused of failing to prevent the suicide bombing of a bus in August 2002 was acquitted in Nazareth magistrate's court last month.

Yassera Bakri, a student at Safed College at the time, was riding in a bus from her home to the college.

According to the charges, a man warned her to get off the bus, implying that he was about to blow himself up. Bakri disembarked with a friend, and the suicide bomber blew up the bus soon afterward. Nine people were killed,

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