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| Suicide Bomber Kills 20 on Israeli Bus | |
| 2003-08-19 | |
| A They are fighting over the privilege. The blast on the extra long bus, which had two passenger sections that were full, went off shortly after 9 p.m. Another bus nearby also was hit by the explosion. The bus had started out at the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest shrine, in the walled Old City, and was headed to an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood, radio reports said, making it likely that many of the passengers were ultra-Orthodox. The vermin probably dressed like one to hide the bomb. The bus was badly damaged, with its windows blown out, and rescuers had to use blow torches to pry wounded from the wreckage. "What is clear is that it was a very big bomb," Jerusalem fire chief Amnon Amir said. Shocked survivors, including several crying children with blood-smeared faces, were led away from the scene. A paramedic cradled a little girl in his arms, and two others led away an older woman. Islam, Religion of Peace... Paramedics treated wounded on the sidewalk, and body parts were strewn about. A rescue service said at least 20 people, including three children, were killed. Israeli officials don’t include the bomber in the death toll. The bombing threatened to restart Restart? They never stopped! the cycle of attacks and
Too busy toasting one another The explosion went off as Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas was meeting with Islamic militants in the Gaza Strip to persuade them to halt attacks on Israelis. Right... The militants had declared a unilateral truce on June 29 but have said they would continue taking revenge for Israeli killings of their operatives. Israel should just delare their own Dire Revenge and see how they like it. Hamas said it was not involved. "We are commited to the truce. I don’t know who carried out this action," said Abdel Aziz Rantissi, a Hamas leader. He said with a snicker... | |
| Posted by:Laurence of the Rats |
| #11 Pick up all the pieces of the suicide bomber and wrap them in pig hide before burying them. Get a C-130 fire fighting plane, fill its tanks with pig grease and spray both Gaza and the West Bank. Find Arafat and shove a hog's pizzle up his butt. Get the wives of all of the Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad leaders and make them ride buses in Isreal. Kidnap all of their children, put them on a boat and go out into the Med and tell the leaders that when the next bomb that goes off in Isreal, the kids will be fed to the sharks, one at a time and a video tape will be made and sent to them. I cannot think of anything rational to say, I am intensely outraged at this crap. Can some one stand up and PLEASE call a spade a spade, Yasser Arafat is a terrorist, he is calling the shots and he is in charge of the entire thing. |
| Posted by: SOG475 2003-8-19 8:29:47 PM |
| #10 Rantisi was on the tube a bit ago, with his usual rant about how "Hamas (or IJ, can't remember his affiliation) will respond to all provocations", etc., etc., etc. -- I longed for a 50 mm slug to cross his mind whilst he was talking. Israel ought to give Abbas 8 hours to get the civil war between the PA & Hamas/IJ he fears underway, before they start it for him. And that ought to include Yassin and the entire crowd of militants. |
| Posted by: snellenr 2003-8-19 7:10:11 PM |
| #9 No, Paul. Any population sick enough not to lynch the bastards who do this kind of thing has excused itself from the ranks of humanity. They ALL deserve Shock and Awe™. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-8-19 6:04:47 PM |
| #8 Any organization stupid enough to claim responsibility for that atrocity ought to get one collectively between the eyes in a Shock and Awe™ fashion. They will learn that claiming responsibility means consequences. It breaks my heart that ordinary Israelis must be cannon fodder to pursue a political end to show the EU or someone that the Paleo leadership is not worth a flying f--k. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-8-19 5:50:46 PM |
| #7 Please,please turn the IDF loose.Let them clean out Gaza.Ship all the assh*&^s to the West Bank andf seal it off noone in or out. |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-8-19 5:14:50 PM |
| #6 Time to hunt down the Paleos and dispose of them--sooner rather than later. |
| Posted by: Flaming Sword 2003-8-19 5:11:18 PM |
| #5 For a good explanation of how the Paleo "Refugee" game has been playing everyone for suckers, (and why the CAIR, et al hate Daniel Pipes so much, because he speaks the truth) see NYPost Column by Daniel Pipes |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-8-19 5:10:46 PM |
| #4 CNN.COM has a picture of rescue workers attempting to resuscitate a small child about my son's age. More than ever, I am convinced that Israel should pave the West Bank and Gaza and let Egypt, Jordan, et al. deal with the Paleos. |
| Posted by: Tibor 2003-8-19 5:07:42 PM |
| #3 Drudge says now that Hamas is also now claiming responsibility, which makes me think (if they both are indeed claiming responsibility) that both of them have a jackass out there with a bomb and only one of them has gone off (and they don't know if it was "theirs" or not). |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2003-8-19 4:52:36 PM |
| #2 Islamic Jihad is claiming responsibility. |
| Posted by: Raj 2003-8-19 4:41:24 PM |
| #1 I understand IJ is claiming credit, but see no reason to limit Israel's congratulatory reply to that one group. Why deny the ululating to the other sick bastards? Little red dots on foreheads for all! Predators and Blackhawks in celebratory flight! Enjoy paleos...the end is nigh |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-8-19 4:41:23 PM |