Palestinian Militant Group Says It Will Limit Bombings
Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, a Palestinian nationalist group responsible for a number of suicide bombings in Israel this year and the only group to deploy women as bombers, said through a commander today that it would not send more bombers into Israel to kill civilians.

But the commander said suicide bombings were being planned against Jewish settlements and Israeli military targets.

The remarks were made by an Aksa leader hiding in Nablus, from which Israeli forces withdrew on Sunday after nearly three weeks of occupation. The commander agreed to an interview on condition that he be identified only as Abu Mujahed, his name in the organization.

Abu Mujahed said the group had survived the West Bank incursion and was planning for more war, but had decided to change tactics out of regrets about civilian casualties and concerns that continued attacks in restaurants, buses and clubs risked turning public opinion against the cause of a free Palestinian state.
"I am sorry for all the civilians that died in this intifada, both Israelis and Palestinians," he said. "I want to fight whoever is in charge of the government of Israel, not civilians."

He added, "What was happening is that we were delivering the wrong message to the world."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/23/international/middleeast/23BRIG.html