ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON HAS VOWED TO RETALIATE FOLLOWING A...

World | May 8, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has vowed to retaliate following a suicide bomb attack near Tel Aviv that killed 16 people. Before flying home for an emergency cabinet meeting, Mr Sharon told a news conference in Washington that Israel would not surrender to what he called blackmail. He blamed the Palestinian Authority and its leader for the attack on a crowded social club in the town of Rishon Letzion on Tuesday - the first in nearly a month. It came as Mr Sharon was having talks with his host, US President George W Bush. Mr Bush expressed disgust at what he called "the wanton taking of human life".

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