The kid won? well thats just my opinion… what do you think, personally?

Amid mounting concern that Israel may unleash pre-emptive strikes against Iran to attack its nuclear facilities, some Israeli commentators are preaching restraint.

They warn that Israel does not have the firepower to deliver a knockout blow to Iran’s perceived drive for nuclear weapons and faces a potentially withering Iranian retaliation the likes of which they have never endured before.

“It must be stated plainly: Israel does not have independent strike capability against Iran — not in the broad sense of the term,” Amos Harel wrote in the liberal daily Haaretz Wednesday.

“The air force is capable of delivering a certain amount of explosives to a given target and bringing most of its aircraft back home intact.

“But it is doubtful whether Israel can allow itself to act against the wishes of the United States — to stand alone against an Iranian response and begin an open-ended operation against a nation of 70 million people,” Harel wrote.

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A Somali man is in custody in Mogadishu, suspected of trying to take explosives onto a plane in November, officials have revealed.

He had chemicals, liquid and a syringe – materials similar to those used by the Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a plane on Christmas Day.

The Daallo Airlines plane was due to fly to the northern Somali city of Hargeisa, then to Djibouti and Dubai.

The airport is in one of the few areas controlled by the Somali government.

Much of the country is in the hands of radical Islamist groups, accused of links to al-Qaeda.

‘Red-handed’

But this is the first time that an attempt to blow up a commercial flight in Somalia has been reported.

“We don’t know whether he’s linked with al-Qaeda or other foreign organisations, but his actions were the acts of a terrorist. We caught him red-handed,” police spokesman Abdulahi Hassan Barise told the Associated Press news agency.

Despite the lack of law and order in Somalia, there are daily flights to neighbouring countries such as Djibouti and Kenya.

The African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia works with the government on security in the Mogadishu airport.

US officials have learned about the Somali case and are investigating any possible links with the attempted attack in Detroit, AP reports.

Somalia has not had an effective national government for almost 20 years.