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| Border Police: "We are Israel's armor" |
| 2004-09-24 |
| Our prayers go out to the Israeli victim's families of yesterday's terror attack by a female Arab, jihadist homicide bomber. Border Police Chief Cmdr. Hasin Faris has had a difficult two days. On Wednesday, two of his officers were killed after a female suicide bomber blew herself up next to a checkpoint at the entrance to the French Hill hitchhiking post in Jerusalem. On Thursday, he skipped from one funeral to the next, mourning together with his subordinates and the families of the dead. But Faris, the first Druse commander of the Border Police, says that his officers prevented with their bodies what could have been a more severe attack, and that he remains confident that his force will not lose its strength and will continue to serve as the nation's "armor and barbed wire fence." "The Border Police sits at the tip of Israel's spear," Faris told The Jerusalem Post Thursday following the funeral of officer Mamoya Tahio in Rehovot. "We are Israel's spear and its armor. The officers work very hard and are very determined, and we will not be deterred by Wednesday's deadly attack." For Faris, this is the second suicide attack he has experienced since taking the Border Police by its reigns in June. Last month a similar attack to Wednesday's was carried out at the Kalandiya Checkpoint north of Jerusalem when an explosive device detonated next to a Border Police force. Three Border Policemen were seriously injured in the attack and one Palestinian was killed. Also then, chief of Jerusalem District Police Cmdr. Ilan Franco said that the officers prevented with their bodies a much greater attack. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |