In Suicide Bombings, the Taxi Man Got Away
In a land where ethnic and religious identity is worn like a badge or a brand, Ibrahim Sarahne was a blur.

He is a Palestinian who lived in a refugee camp in the West Bank. But he drove Israel's streets with yellow Israeli license plates, carrying identification as a Jerusalem resident and passing, he said, as an Israeli Arab. He married a Ukrainian Christian, but forged her a new identity as a Russian Jew so that she could move even more freely than he did.

This March, Mr. Sarahne said, he decided to put his ability to pass Israeli checkpoints and fade into the Israeli population to a lethal use: finding accessible places crowded with civilians, and taking suicide bombers to them.

"They never suspected me," he said today with a proud, if fleeting, smile.

Saying he was not particularly religious, he denied that he was paid or forced to help the bombers. He blamed Mr. Sharon for motivating him, by sending Israeli forces across the boundary into the West Bank. He said he was responding by crossing the same line to kill.

"If he made a mistake when he went into the territories and killed a lot of people," he said, "then I made a mistake by bringing people in."

Asked if he regretted helping kill civilians, Mr. Sarahne said, "There are also Arabs who are innocent who died."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/13/international/middleeast/13DRIV.html