Sounds to me like itwas targeted at Americans directly... Don't know why anyone would want to pull us in, but apparently someone does.....
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...el_palestinians
After the first two cars — including the police escort — went by, the third car had just passed when the blast went off near a gas station, said Mohammed Radwan, a Palestinian taxi driver who was at the station at the time.
U.S. diplomatic sources said the people in the targeted car were security guards for the U.S. diplomats traveling in the other vehicles. Palestinian officials said the diplomats were U.S. monitors.
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U.S. convoys travel in Gaza almost daily, and are easily identifiable and usually take the same route on the main north-south road in the strip.
Several hours after the bombing, U.S. investigators arrived at the scene and photographed the mangled van. About a dozen Palestinian youths threw stones at the investigators as about 200 Palestinians looked on.
As the angry crowd chanted "Allahu Akbar" — "God is great" — the Americans rushed back into their cars, surrounded by nervous Palestinian security officers with rifles raised. Palestinian police beat some people in the crowd while pushing the spectators back, and the cars sped away under a hail of stones.