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Middle East
Jerusalem boomer kills six, fifty wounded
2002-04-12
  • A woman suicide bomber blew herself up near Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market. There are at least six dead, and over 50 wounded, eight critically and 11 seriously, in the wake of the blast, according to Magen David Adom officials. The terrorist apparently tried to get on a bus in the vicinity of the market area, which was packed with pre-Sabbath shoppers. She stood close to a parking lot and then detonated the charge she was wearing outside of the vehicle, according to Jerusalem police chief Mickey Levy. There are a number of bodies strewn in the street and dozens of the wounded have been transferred to local hospitals. Police have closed off the area as sappers check for other terrorists or explosives.
    FoxNews General Geraldo Rivera The Palestinianist was on the terriblevision this morning discussing how this is a police problem instead of a military problem. He pointed out, as I have lots of times, that for every suicide bomber, for every other crazed killer, there's a support network. The Israelis should be whacking very hard at the network behind the killers; every time one explodes a half dozen to a dozen runners, controllers, co-members of the cell, and the clerics and/or political operatives associated should all either be rounded up and jugged for, oh, six or seven thousand years, or have "tragic accidents." Where His Excellency the General and I disagree is the utility of the military. Since the Palestinocops were, shall we say, useless, due to their off-duty habits of dispatching the boomers, bombers and crazed killers, that leaves the IDF to aid in getting to the infrastructure. Sad that they have to drive tanks through walls to get to the Bad Guys, but the premise is rightly that it's not worth expending the Good Guys to get to the thugs. There are only so many Good Guys in the world, but the supply of exploding fanatics appears to be unlimited.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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