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    http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...=1061262865507

    Aug. 20, 2003
    At least 18 dead, including 3 children, in Jerusalem bus bomb
    By THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF

    A stroller left at the site of a suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem on Tuesday, August 19th, 2003.

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    A suicide bomber blew himself up on board a bus in Jerusalem at about 9:15pm on Tuesday, killing at least 18 people and wounding scores, many of them children.

    One two-year-old died in hospital.

    A second bus nearby was also hit by the blast, which took place on Road One near Shmuel Hanavi St., near many yeshivot and close to the point where the Arab east and Jewish western sides of the city meet. Rescuers had to use blow torches to evacuate some of the wounded from the second bus.

    Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the attack.

    Israel has frozen all diplomatic talks with the Palestinians and the handover of the four Palestinian West Bank cities agreed upon last week.

    Jerusalem police chief Mickey Levy said the explosives charge was particularly large; Avi Zohar, head of Israel Medical Relief Services, said this was the biggest bus explosion in the past three years. 103 wounded persons have been evacuated to hospital.

    Hadassah Hospital, Mount Scopus received 28 injured, among them 13 children, Channel One reported. One child is severely wounded. Many of the injured children were burned during the fire that erupted after the bomb went off.

    Sha'arei Tzedek Hospital received 39 wounded.

    A 1-month-old baby is being treated at Hadassah Hospital, Ein Kerem, his identity unknown.

    In its claim of responsibility for the attack, Islamic Jihad said the bomber was one Raed Nisak of Hebron and that the attack was a response to the killing of one of its operatives last week.

    But Hamas members also faxed claims of responsibility to the Hezbollah station; Hamas' Abdel Aziz Rantisi denied the organization's involvement.

    Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas was meeting with Islamic Jihad leaders in the Gaza Strip at the time of the explosion, in a renewed attempt to persuade them to halt attack.

    Abbas condemned the bombing as a "terrible act" and said he ordered Palestinian security forces to investigate.

    Dore Gold, an Israeli government spokesman, said "Israel will have to protect its population."

    The bus was making its way from the Wall to the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood.

    Hospitals phone numbers:


    Bikur Holim Hospital: 125-5123

    Hadassah Hospital, Ein Kerem: 125-5122

    Hadassah Hospital, Mount Scopus: 125-5121

    Sha'arei Tzedek: 125-5125

    Jerusalem Municipality: 106 (02-531-4600)
    No area code is necessary when calling these numbers. Overseas callers need to dial Israel's country code 972.
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    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95150,00.html


    Homicide Bomber Blows Apart Jerusalem Bus

    Tuesday, August 19, 2003

    JERUSALEM — A stretch bus with two full passenger sections was torn apart by an explosion in Jerusalem Tuesday evening, killing at least 20 people, including three children, a rescue service said.

    Israeli police said a homicide bomber blew himself up on the packed bus at about 9 p.m. local time. The blast, which injured at least 100, took place on a main thoroughfare in West Jerusalem.

    Islamic Jihad called journalists in the West Bank and claimed responsibility for the bus attack, saying it was to avenge the killing of Jihad area leader Mohammed Sidr last week.

    However, Fox News was faxed a letter from Hamas in which the group also claimed responsibility, and said it was avenging the deaths of some of its members in the last few weeks.

    Dore Gold, senior adviser to Ariel Sharon, said both organizations are “very active.”

    “They have slightly different goals but both are working together and want to destroy Israel,” he told Fox News.

    Rescuers had to use blowtorches to pry some of the wounded from the wreckage. Paramedics treated the wounded on the sidewalk, and body parts were strewn about.

    Survivors with burned and blood-smeared faces were being led away from the scene by paramedics. A small girl and a crying boy were among those taken off the bus.

    The bus, badly damaged with its windows blown out, had started out at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest shrine, in the walled Old City.

    One report said among the passengers were members of a family who had celebrated a Bar Mitzvah, the Jewish rite of passage into adulthood for boys, at the Western Wall.

    A second bus passing nearby when the explosion went off was also badly damaged, with windows blown out.

    "What is clear is that it was a very big bomb," Jerusalem fire chief Amnon Amir said.

    Fox News' Jonathan Hunt reported seeing six people carried away from the scene by emergency workers and a large trickle of blood running into the street from the wrecked bus, which he described as a "folding" type with a rubber flexible connector halfway along its length.

    Hunt reported that 15 people suffered serious injuries, 10 of which were children.

    He said while the explosion took place some 200 yards from American Colony Hotel, where a lot of foreign journalists stay, this was most likely coincidence, and the more telling factors in the explosion are it was the No. 2 bus that runs to an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood and it occurred right outside a synagogue.

    The bombing threatened to restart the cycle of attacks and retaliation that could derail a U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan to Palestinian statehood.

    In a first move, Israel called off the planned handover of the West Bank towns of Jericho and Qalqiliya to Palestinian control. The handover was to have taken place later this week.

    Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas condemned the bombing as a "terrible act."

    The explosion went off as Abbas was in a meeting with Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip to persuade the group to halt attacks on Israelis.

    Abbas said he has asked Palestinian security forces to investigate.

    In Washington, the White House deplored the bombing and offered sympathies to the victims and their families.

    "We condemn this vicious act of terrorism," said Sean McCormack, a spokesman on national security issues. "We call on the Palestinian Authority to dismantle terrorism."

    Over the weekend, Israel and the Palestinians had reached agreement on the handover of four West Bank towns to Palestinian control. That deal was likely to be put on hold.

    The militants had declared a unilateral truce on June 29 but have said they would continue taking revenge for Israeli killings of their operatives.
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    • #3
      the response to this on pakdef is disgusting:

      http://www.pakistanidefenceforum.com/index.php?showtopic=17317

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      • #4
        Dont know how to say this; but an all out war is needed, we gave them concessions and this is what they give you instead of peace.

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        • #5
          ...here we go again

          Can't say I am surprised, by either, the terrorist attack or the pacdeffence reaction...
          so, the thing is what is goign to happen now.
          personally I never saw with much hope the roadmap, after all Abbas is not exactly a pure maiden or anything, and the core of the problem is that the west keeps rewarding the palestinian terrorism...

          I wonder what sort of political repercusions this is going to have in the west.

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          • #6
            If the world got pissed off when the Israeli DEFENSE Forces shot a 14 year old who was brandishing a weapon and threatening soldiers, than obviously it won't care one bit about a one month old baby or a two year old baby who's only crime was to ride the bus in Israel. It disgusts me that by tomorrow it will all be blamed on Israel, and no-one will care less. Except for the parents, orphans and widows, that is.

            And fuck all those at PakDefense.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by bigross86
              If the world got pissed off when the Israeli DEFENSE Forces shot a 14 year old who was brandishing a weapon and threatening soldiers, than obviously it won't care one bit about a one month old baby or a two year old baby who's only crime was to ride the bus in Israel. It disgusts me that by tomorrow it will all be blamed on Israel, and no-one will care less. Except for the parents, orphans and widows, that is.

              And fuck all those at PakDefense.
              i care, im sick of seeing innocent Israelis killed, the Palestinians you kill are attacking the soldiers, the 5 year old kid the Palestians bitch to the world about was really shooting an AK-47 at them.

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              • #8
                Yeah, but hey, it's the f**king Middle East, $hit like this is supposed to happen. Nobody gives a f**k anymore.
                Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

                Abusing Yellow is meant to be a labor of love, not something you sell to the highest bidder.

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                • #9
                  Its the Anti-Semitism that causes people to be mad at Israel for striking back, like any sane nation on Earth wouldent do anything after they just got attacked by demented madmen.

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                  • #10
                    No, it's the fact that most of the free world are hypocrites. How can they claim to be part of the free world if they don't support the actions of the rightful government, yet they support the actions of mass murderers who blatantly claim responsibility for the murders in front of all the world to see. That and the elixer of life, otherwise known as oil.
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                    • #11
                      justice will be achived by Israeli tanks driving through the gates of the Presidential Palaces in Beirut and Damascus

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                      • #12
                        No it won't. Not yet, anyway. First we got to use the Merkava's to drive through the gates of the Palestinian Authority and kick ass!!!
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by bigross86
                          No it won't. Not yet, anyway. First we got to use the Merkava's to drive through the gates of the Palestinian Authority and kick ass!!!
                          You already did that on March 29th 2002

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                          • #14
                            Yeah, but we didn't kick ass. Not too much anyway. Plus, this time we've got to stay in and shoot on sight, shoot to kill.
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                            Abusing Yellow is meant to be a labor of love, not something you sell to the highest bidder.

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                            • #15
                              ...well that might be a tad extreme, but it just might work, only if the western hemisphere stop showing support (or at least paying lipservice) to the 'poor' palestinians.

                              on any case I agree with you, most of the world are a bunch of hipocrites. I still remeber the Leftist protests during the US led war against the world's favorite despot and all arround bastard, Hussein.

                              Still trying to figure that one out.

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