Sheikh Tantawi, leader of Sunnite Islam in Cairo condemns attacks against all innocent civilians. This comes after a spate of suicide bombings in Haifa and Jerusalem.

For details of these suicide bombings please see the previous 5 dispatches, the last one was named, Palestinian school teachers celebrate (December 2, 2001).

Though he did not specifically refer to Israeli innocent civilians this comes after suicide bombings in both Jerusalem and Haifa killed many innocent Israeli civilians.

-- Tom Gross