Wednesday, July 2, 2008
A predictable reaction to years of hate indoctrination. Shocking. An email states:
Among his innocent victims is an infant, who was injured in the attack and taken to hospital. Eyewitnesses told police that the murdered mother saved her baby, by throwing the child out the car window, just before the bulldozer crushed her to death.
JPost: Bulldozer driver shot dead after going on rampage in capital
Three people [I've heard it's four now] were killed and 57 were wounded - one seriously, one moderately and the rest lightly - on Wednesday afternoon when a bulldozer driver went on a rampage in downtown Jerusalem.
The attack, at the junction of Jaffa Road and Sarei Yisrael St., set off a panic in the area and left a large swath of damage in the heart of the capital. Traffic was halted, and hundreds of people fled through the streets in panic as medics treated the wounded.
A car was dragged several meters by the bulldozer before being crushed under the vehicle. A baby was treated in Sha'arei Tzedek Hospital and his parents were yet to be tracked down. The indication was that the baby was thrown out of the car by one of his parents before the vehicle was crushed.
Three Palestinian terror groups took responsibility for the attack, but police referred to the attacker as a "terrorist" acting on his own. The attack took place in front of a building housing the offices of several media outlets.
An off-duty soldier took a gun from an elite policeman at the scene and shot the terrorist dead. The soldier, Moshe Klessner, 18, is the brother-in-law of IDF officer David Shapira, who killed the terrorist in the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva attack on March 6.
Klessner was assisted in neutralizing the attacker by another elite policeman.
A third policeman was lightly wounded by gunfire, indicating that the terrorist was armed.
Police said the incident was definitely a terror attack, but stressed that they had no specific warning.
Police added that the terrorist, Jabr Duwait, a 32-year-old father of two from Jebl Mukaber, was carrying an Israeli identity card. The Mercaz Harav attacker was from the very same east Jerusalem town...
Also: A7: Terrorist Bulldozer Rampages in Jerusalem, Murders Three
Richard Landes: Sudden Jihad Syndrome in Jerusalem?
YNet: Olmert: Work toward demolishing Jerusalem terrorist's home
Excellent post from Dave: Jerusalem Terror Attack
AP has a story here with more photos, including of the saved infant: Palestinian goes on rampage in Jerusalem; 3 killed
Honest Reporting: Caught: BBC's Shocking First Response to Terror Attack
Photos below:
Courtesy of Noa Landes:
From Israeli MFA:
From the Government Press Office:
Via One Family Fund:
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The headline later today at the BBC website: "Jewish vigilante assassinates Palestinian construction worker".
BHG
Suggestion for BBC headline: Members of Israeli security forces lynch Arab construction worker.
We are all pleased to hear that the allegedly wounded policeman is safe and sound and was not wounded at all. He was interviewed today by Israeli TV and it is my impression that he fainted when the off-duty soldier shot the terrorist literally over the policeman's shoulder. Today he told Israeli TV that his uniform became stained with blood while he wrestled the wounded terrorist, trying to keep him away from the wheel or kill the bulldozer engine, that's why he was believed wounded.
The death toll is three. Two baby girls were slightly wounded in this attack: one was quickly reunited with her mother who had been evacuated to another hospital. Both mother and daughter are doing fine.
Unfortunately, the second baby's mother is dead, and her story reminds me of the Holocaust. Remember Jewish parents who threw their children off Nazi trains while on their way to the death camps? Well, seconds before the bulldozer crushed her and the car she was driving, this brave mother managed to throw her daughter out of the car and by doing so she saved her life.
The terrorist's father was also interviewed and has the nerve to claim that this was a traffic accident, and his son became scared when people present at the scene drew their weapons. That's why he attacked several cars time and time again, and also after overturning the bus he bashed it twice actually trying to squash it against the wall. Arab logic!
The second Holocaust reminder is in samir kuntar's attack. While this beast was attacking her husband and daughter, Smadar Haran had to smother her second daughter whom she had managed to drag into a a small storage space, for fear that the toddler might cry or make some other noise. Again, Jews hiding from the Nazis had on occasion had to kill her own babies for fear they would be found out. The beast is still upon us.
Muslims Against Sharia unequivocally condemn murderous attack in Jerusalem.
We call for swift extermination of all terrorist groups that claimed responsibility for this attack.
We implore Israeli government not to provide financial help for the family of the murderer. Any such help will be an open invitation for future attacks.
http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/07/terror-group-claims-jerusalem-attack.html