"Le Mod Pol" <mod_pol@usa.com> wrote in message
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"On this difficult day for Israel, in which innocent
Israelis are murdered on the streets of its capital,
there is no room for concessions to the Palestinian
public."

*YAWN*

Subject: 10 KILLED IN JERUSALEM TERROR BOMBING
From: Le Mod Pol

"On this difficult day for Israel, in which innocent
Israelis are murdered on the streets of its capital,
there is no room for concessions to the Palestinian
public."

I never see you post when Palestinians are killed.

I never see you post when Palestinians are killed. So I thought this was
going to end with the fence the United States provided probably hundred
million dollars to build.

And my prediction that the Zionazis did this now to try to provoke a
suicide bombing in order to give them an excuse to cancel the prisoner
release arrangement with Hizbullah was CORRECT............except that
the US must have pressured them NOT to cancel the prisoner release.

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:20:43 +0200, "Abu-Alwafa"
<almared_alarabi@yahoo.com> wrote:

Israel Kills 13 Palestinians In Gaza Raid

By Mostafa Al-Sawaf, IOL Correspondent

GAZA CITY, January 28 (IslamOnline.net) - At least 13 Palestinians were
killed at dawn Wednesday, January 28, in a new Israeli incursion into the
southern outskirts of Gaza City.

Witnesses told IslamOnline.net that Israeli armored vehicles and tanks
mounted a bloody raid on Al-Zeitun suburb, opening fire intensely and
randomly at houses and destroying a Palestinian security post.

Palestinian medics identified six of the dead as Moussa Daloul, 27, Iyaad
Al-Raai, 35, Ahmad Ali Abu Rekab, 30, Marwan Attiyah Basal, 30, Othman
Mohammad Jindiyah, 19, and Sameh Toutah, 22.

Director of emergency cases at Al-Shefaa Hospital, Dr. Goma Al-Saka, said
the death toll might rise, adding that ambulances raced through the

carrying the victims, with one of them taking Israeli fire.

Palestinian resistance fighters stood up to the Israeli raid, firing
rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and opening fire at the occupation

witnesses said.

The latest deaths bring the overall toll since the start of the

Intifada in September 2000 to 3,719, including 2,787 Palestinians and 865
Israelis, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) count.

Meanwhile, an Israeli special unit backed by armored vehicles stormed the
southern district of the West Bank city of Tulkarm and arrested a number

Palestinian youths, including 28-year-old Malik Saada Saleh Al-Jallad, a
leader in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

Dressed in civvies and traveling in a Ford with Palestinian plates, the
Israeli soldiers stormed Jallad's house, witnesses told IOL.

"Jallad tried in vain to make an escape as the occupation troops were
tightly surrounding the house," his brother, Muhannad, said.

He added that the Israeli troops forced his family, including women and
children, to leave the house and held them in a neighboring one.

Witnesses said dozens of employees at Tulkarm's education directorate

their offices under Israeli duress, adding that the occupation troops

fired stun bombs at nearby schools.

http://islamonline.net/

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:02:21 -0500, Le Mod Pol <mod_pol@usa.com>
wrote:

"On this difficult day for Israel, in which innocent
Israelis are murdered on the streets of its capital,
there is no room for concessions to the Palestinian
public."

10 KILLED IN JERUSALEM TERROR BOMBING

By BRET STEPHENS

A suicide bomber exploded inside a bus on the corners
of Gaza and Arlozorov streets, near the Prime
Minister's residence in Jerusalem's Rehavia
neighborhood at about 8:45 Thursday morning.

At least 10 people have been killed and 50 wounded.
Twelve people are listed in very serious condition in
three Jerusalem Hospitals.

All the wounded have been evacuated to hospitals. [See
bottom of story for Hospital telephone numbers].

Assistant director general of Hadassah Ein Kerem Prof.
Shmuel Shapira said 10 wounded had arrived at the
hospital. Five were seriously wounded, and five others
moderately wounded. Most of those brought to the
hospital were in their early twenties, Channel 1
reported.

Prof. Shapira said most of the wounded were suffering
from lesions caused by metal shards and from the impact
of the explosion. "They put in metal balls, nails and
bolts into these bombs," Shapira said.

Police and Magen David Adom arrived minutes after the
attack, and the area was cordoned off.

Jerusalem Police chief Mickey Levy said there were a
large number of fatalities. "The bomb was very big, the
entire back end of the bus was ripped apart," he said.
He said police had no specific warning for the attack.

Levy said police still had no leads but were
investigating. He said police think they know where the
suicide bomber mounted the bus.

"Jerusalem Police have recently managed to stop several
attacks, including the seizure of three explosive
belts. All of these planned attacks are still being
investigated. Today," he said, "we had no specific
warning of this attack and we couldn't stop it."

"The explosive was a large one," Levy continued, and
"we will investigate with the Egged bus company why
there was no security person on the bus," Levy said.

Half the roof of the bus was lifted 12 meters in the
air and was visible hundreds of meters away back part
of the bus. On the bus itself every window had been
blown out. There were three entire human corpses inside
the bus and two others lying outside.

There was a moped that was hit by the explosion, but it
was not clear whether the moped driver was amongst
those murdered or injured.

Keren, 14, an eyewitness who was waiting for the bus,
told Army Radio that the bus blew up meters before it
arrived at the station. People began running towards
the bus, she said, and then police arrived followed by
ambulances. "I remained rooted to the spot, crying,
until I was taken to hospital."

Police and security service said they receive between
50 and 60 general terror attack warnings per day.

Islamic Jihad and Hizbullah welcomed the bombing but
did not accept responsibility.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the
attack. Arab media reports a female suicide bomber
carried out the attack. Abdel Aziz Rantissi, a Hamas
leader in Gaza, stopped short of claiming
responsibility but said, "It's not important who
carried out this operation. The only thing which is
very important is that we are resisting occupiers who
came ... to occupy our land and to kill our people," he
said.

US ambassador to Israel Dan Kurtzer expressed his
horror and shock at the murder of innocent Jews and
reiterated US belief that "the Palestinians must take
all steps to make this stop. To stop incitements and
assistance to this murder of Jews and to take very
specific action to uproot terrorism from their midst."

In Strassbourge, the Council of Europe condemned the
deadly suicide bombing as a "mindless and
indiscriminate act of violence."

Walter Schwimmer, secretary general of the 45-nation
organization, said, "Every mindless and indiscriminate
act of violence such as this is an attack not only on
innocent human beings, but also on the very values that
our organization strives to uphold - namely democracy,
human rights and the rule of law."

Israel's former ambassador to the UN Dore Gold said,
"Only the deployment of the Israeli army has prevented
more attacks and only the final completion of the
security fence will prevent more attacks in the
future."

Cancelling a trilateral meeting between Israel, the
Palestinian Administration and US envoys John Wolf and
David Satterfield, the Israeli foreign ministry and
Prime Minister's ofice issued a joint statement saying,
"On this difficult day for Israel, in which innocent
Israelis are murdered on the streets of its capital,
there is no room for concessions to the Palestinian
public."

Shalom said that the PA must do all it has pledged to
do - to fight terror; otherwise there will be no
advance in the process.

Wolf and Satterfield have already met with the both
sides, and were to host the trilateral meeting Thursday
to re-ignite the stalled US road map.

PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, who Thursday agreed to
meet PM Ariel Sharon without preconditions, condemned
the suicide bombing in Jerusalem

According to police reports, a suicide bomber managed
to enter the bus, then explode at the back of the bus,
ripping off its roof. The bus driver said he did not
notice any suspicious-looking person enter the bus,
Israel Radio reported.

The explosion occurred moments after the bus pulled
away from its last station. The bus starts its route in
Hadassah Ein Kerem and makes its way to Hadassah Mount
Scopus.

Following the explosion, disoriented people were seen
milling around, some were seen at the scene walking
around with pieces of human flesh on them. A great deal
of blood was seen on the ground, and broken glass
littered the streets.

There was a ghostly silence immediately after the
attack; the silence one feels in Jerusalem on Shabbat.

Many of the people had managed to get off and make
their way to the corner of Arlozorov and Gaza Streets.
Some were sitting there in silence. Some of them had
pieces of flesh on their jackets.

One person seems to have had his ear torn in half.

Another women was bleeding profusely, her face covered
in blood.

Police chief Insp.-Gen. Shlomo Aharonishky said, "This
takes us back to the difficult days of the past. There
is no change in strategy on the other side. They are
always trying to carry out attacks. The thin line of
defense comprises the work of the security services,
the IDF, Police and Shin Bet. Even despite this we
cannot thwart every attack," Aharonishky said.

Aharonishky said the security fence being built around
the West Bank would help security forces thwart
attacks, but added that there was no fool-proof way to
stop terrorism. "Let me remind you that even the Great
Wall of China had holes in it," he said.

Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz will convene the heads of
the security establishment and other agencies to
discuss the implications of the bombing, and Israel's
response.

Road blocks have been set up by police at all major
exits from Jerusalem causing traffic jams at the Gush
Etzion Tunnel road.

Scores of Palestinians have been detained at the
roadside, and large vehicles are being searched.

Daniel Taub - a spokesman for the Israeli foreign
office told the BBC, "this particular attack took place
on a bus that runs between two hospitals and there is
no depth to which these terrorists are not prepared to
sink."

"The people whose job it is to stop these attacks, that
is the Palestinian leadership," he said, "is doing
nothing whatsoever. Their aim is to blow up every
single Israeli and Jew alive. In recent attacks entire
families have been murdered.

"We know that the only way forward is through
negotiations," Taub reiterated. "The problem is there
is no one with whom to conduct dialogue. We have a
Palestinian leader who has said he has no intention of
stopping terror. In a situation like that, dialogue is
not an option."

Knesset Security and Foreign Affairs committee chairman
Yuval Steinitz said the attack is aimed at
"embarrassing" Israel and making the release of 400
terrorists even more painful than it already is.
Israel's reaction, he said, should be to immediately
banish Yasser Arafat to Tunisia for his responsibility
for suicide attacks.

MK Ehud Yatom said the attack is a response by "Hassan
Nasrallah, Arafat, Yassin and the Iranian rulers to
Israel's weakness as evident in the prisoner swap."

Agriculture Minister Yisrael Katz said he had just
discussed with Ariel Sharon the need to banish Arafat,
in accordance with a cabinet decision from four months
ago.

Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski said "a day that should
have been a happy one started with many dead and
injured. We are one family, made of hard stuff, but
this kind of attack has implications for Jerusalem
after several months of quiet."

"Terrorists will always find excuses to kill us," he
continued. "There is no doubt that intentions exist.
I'm glad the fence is going up. I only wish it was
happening faster because we all know it protects us
all."

The Palestinian Administration condemned the attack.
Chief PA negotiator Saeb Erekat said they condemn any
attack upon innocent civilians, Israeli or Palestinian.

This is the second explosion near the prime minister's
residence, the first occurring on March 5, 2002 at the
Moment Cafe. The Prime Minister was not at his
Jerusalem residence at the time of the attack.

Diplomatic officials said the prisoner swap with the
Hizbullah would continue despite the attack.

jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=107534980

And my prediction that the Zionazis did this now to try to provoke a
suicide bombing in order to give them an excuse to cancel the prisoner
release arrangement with Hizbullah was CORRECT............except that
the US must have pressured them NOT to cancel the prisoner release.

Diplomatic officials said the prisoner swap with the
Hizbullah would continue despite the attack.

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:20:43 +0200, "Abu-Alwafa"
<almared_alarabi@yahoo.com> wrote:

Israel Kills 13 Palestinians In Gaza Raid

By Mostafa Al-Sawaf, IOL Correspondent

GAZA CITY, January 28 (IslamOnline.net) – At least 13 Palestinians were
killed at dawn Wednesday, January 28, in a new Israeli incursion into the
southern outskirts of Gaza City.

Witnesses told IslamOnline.net that Israeli armored vehicles and tanks
mounted a bloody raid on Al-Zeitun suburb, opening fire intensely and
randomly at houses and destroying a Palestinian security post.

Palestinian medics identified six of the dead as Moussa Daloul, 27, Iyaad
Al-Raai, 35, Ahmad Ali Abu Rekab, 30, Marwan Attiyah Basal, 30, Othman
Mohammad Jindiyah, 19, and Sameh Toutah, 22.

Director of emergency cases at Al-Shefaa Hospital, Dr. Goma Al-Saka, said
the death toll might rise, adding that ambulances raced through the streets
carrying the victims, with one of them taking Israeli fire.

Palestinian resistance fighters stood up to the Israeli raid, firing
rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and opening fire at the occupation troops,
witnesses said.

The latest deaths bring the overall toll since the start of the Palestinian
Intifada in September 2000 to 3,719, including 2,787 Palestinians and 865
Israelis, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) count.

Meanwhile, an Israeli special unit backed by armored vehicles stormed the
southern district of the West Bank city of Tulkarm and arrested a number of
Palestinian youths, including 28-year-old Malik Saada Saleh Al-Jallad, a
leader in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

Dressed in civvies and traveling in a Ford with Palestinian plates, the
Israeli soldiers stormed Jallad's house, witnesses told IOL.

"Jallad tried in vain to make an escape as the occupation troops were
tightly surrounding the house," his brother, Muhannad, said.

He added that the Israeli troops forced his family, including women and
children, to leave the house and held them in a neighboring one.

Witnesses said dozens of employees at Tulkarm's education directorate left
their offices under Israeli duress, adding that the occupation troops also
fired stun bombs at nearby schools.

http://islamonline.net/

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:02:21 -0500, Le Mod Pol <mod_pol@usa.com>
wrote:

"On this difficult day for Israel, in which innocent
Israelis are murdered on the streets of its capital,
there is no room for concessions to the Palestinian
public."

10 KILLED IN JERUSALEM TERROR BOMBING

By BRET STEPHENS

A suicide bomber exploded inside a bus on the corners
of Gaza and Arlozorov streets, near the Prime
Minister's residence in Jerusalem's Rehavia
neighborhood at about 8:45 Thursday morning.

At least 10 people have been killed and 50 wounded.
Twelve people are listed in very serious condition in
three Jerusalem Hospitals.

All the wounded have been evacuated to hospitals. [See
bottom of story for Hospital telephone numbers].

Assistant director general of Hadassah Ein Kerem Prof.
Shmuel Shapira said 10 wounded had arrived at the
hospital. Five were seriously wounded, and five others
moderately wounded. Most of those brought to the
hospital were in their early twenties, Channel 1
reported.

Prof. Shapira said most of the wounded were suffering
from lesions caused by metal shards and from the impact
of the explosion. "They put in metal balls, nails and
bolts into these bombs," Shapira said.

Police and Magen David Adom arrived minutes after the
attack, and the area was cordoned off.

Jerusalem Police chief Mickey Levy said there were a
large number of fatalities. "The bomb was very big, the
entire back end of the bus was ripped apart," he said.
He said police had no specific warning for the attack.

Levy said police still had no leads but were
investigating. He said police think they know where the
suicide bomber mounted the bus.

"Jerusalem Police have recently managed to stop several
attacks, including the seizure of three explosive
belts. All of these planned attacks are still being
investigated. Today," he said, "we had no specific
warning of this attack and we couldn't stop it."

"The explosive was a large one," Levy continued, and
"we will investigate with the Egged bus company why
there was no security person on the bus," Levy said.

Half the roof of the bus was lifted 12 meters in the
air and was visible hundreds of meters away back part
of the bus. On the bus itself every window had been
blown out. There were three entire human corpses inside
the bus and two others lying outside.

There was a moped that was hit by the explosion, but it
was not clear whether the moped driver was amongst
those murdered or injured.

Keren, 14, an eyewitness who was waiting for the bus,
told Army Radio that the bus blew up meters before it
arrived at the station. People began running towards
the bus, she said, and then police arrived followed by
ambulances. "I remained rooted to the spot, crying,
until I was taken to hospital."

Police and security service said they receive between
50 and 60 general terror attack warnings per day.

Islamic Jihad and Hizbullah welcomed the bombing but
did not accept responsibility.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the
attack. Arab media reports a female suicide bomber
carried out the attack. Abdel Aziz Rantissi, a Hamas
leader in Gaza, stopped short of claiming
responsibility but said, "It's not important who
carried out this operation. The only thing which is
very important is that we are resisting occupiers who
came ... to occupy our land and to kill our people," he
said.

US ambassador to Israel Dan Kurtzer expressed his
horror and shock at the murder of innocent Jews and
reiterated US belief that "the Palestinians must take
all steps to make this stop. To stop incitements and
assistance to this murder of Jews and to take very
specific action to uproot terrorism from their midst."

In Strassbourge, the Council of Europe condemned the
deadly suicide bombing as a "mindless and
indiscriminate act of violence."

Walter Schwimmer, secretary general of the 45-nation
organization, said, "Every mindless and indiscriminate
act of violence such as this is an attack not only on
innocent human beings, but also on the very values that
our organization strives to uphold - namely democracy,
human rights and the rule of law."

Israel's former ambassador to the UN Dore Gold said,
"Only the deployment of the Israeli army has prevented
more attacks and only the final completion of the
security fence will prevent more attacks in the
future."

Cancelling a trilateral meeting between Israel, the
Palestinian Administration and US envoys John Wolf and
David Satterfield, the Israeli foreign ministry and
Prime Minister's ofice issued a joint statement saying,
"On this difficult day for Israel, in which innocent
Israelis are murdered on the streets of its capital,
there is no room for concessions to the Palestinian
public."

Shalom said that the PA must do all it has pledged to
do – to fight terror; otherwise there will be no
advance in the process.

Wolf and Satterfield have already met with the both
sides, and were to host the trilateral meeting Thursday
to re-ignite the stalled US road map.

PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, who Thursday agreed to
meet PM Ariel Sharon without preconditions, condemned
the suicide bombing in Jerusalem

According to police reports, a suicide bomber managed
to enter the bus, then explode at the back of the bus,
ripping off its roof. The bus driver said he did not
notice any suspicious-looking person enter the bus,
Israel Radio reported.

The explosion occurred moments after the bus pulled
away from its last station. The bus starts its route in
Hadassah Ein Kerem and makes its way to Hadassah Mount
Scopus.

Following the explosion, disoriented people were seen
milling around, some were seen at the scene walking
around with pieces of human flesh on them. A great deal
of blood was seen on the ground, and broken glass
littered the streets.

There was a ghostly silence immediately after the
attack; the silence one feels in Jerusalem on Shabbat.

Many of the people had managed to get off and make
their way to the corner of Arlozorov and Gaza Streets.
Some were sitting there in silence. Some of them had
pieces of flesh on their jackets.

One person seems to have had his ear torn in half.

Another women was bleeding profusely, her face covered
in blood.

Police chief Insp.-Gen. Shlomo Aharonishky said, "This
takes us back to the difficult days of the past. There
is no change in strategy on the other side. They are
always trying to carry out attacks. The thin line of
defense comprises the work of the security services,
the IDF, Police and Shin Bet. Even despite this we
cannot thwart every attack," Aharonishky said.

Aharonishky said the security fence being built around
the West Bank would help security forces thwart
attacks, but added that there was no fool-proof way to
stop terrorism. "Let me remind you that even the Great
Wall of China had holes in it," he said.

Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz will convene the heads of
the security establishment and other agencies to
discuss the implications of the bombing, and Israel's
response.

Road blocks have been set up by police at all major
exits from Jerusalem causing traffic jams at the Gush
Etzion Tunnel road.

Scores of Palestinians have been detained at the
roadside, and large vehicles are being searched.

Daniel Taub – a spokesman for the Israeli foreign
office told the BBC, "this particular attack took place
on a bus that runs between two hospitals and there is
no depth to which these terrorists are not prepared to
sink."

"The people whose job it is to stop these attacks, that
is the Palestinian leadership," he said, "is doing
nothing whatsoever. Their aim is to blow up every
single Israeli and Jew alive. In recent attacks entire
families have been murdered.

"We know that the only way forward is through
negotiations," Taub reiterated. "The problem is there
is no one with whom to conduct dialogue. We have a
Palestinian leader who has said he has no intention of
stopping terror. In a situation like that, dialogue is
not an option."

Knesset Security and Foreign Affairs committee chairman
Yuval Steinitz said the attack is aimed at
"embarrassing" Israel and making the release of 400
terrorists even more painful than it already is.
Israel's reaction, he said, should be to immediately
banish Yasser Arafat to Tunisia for his responsibility
for suicide attacks.

MK Ehud Yatom said the attack is a response by "Hassan
Nasrallah, Arafat, Yassin and the Iranian rulers to
Israel's weakness as evident in the prisoner swap."

Agriculture Minister Yisrael Katz said he had just
discussed with Ariel Sharon the need to banish Arafat,
in accordance with a cabinet decision from four months
ago.

Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski said "a day that should
have been a happy one started with many dead and
injured. We are one family, made of hard stuff, but
this kind of attack has implications for Jerusalem
after several months of quiet."

"Terrorists will always find excuses to kill us," he
continued. "There is no doubt that intentions exist.
I'm glad the fence is going up. I only wish it was
happening faster because we all know it protects us
all."

The Palestinian Administration condemned the attack.
Chief PA negotiator Saeb Erekat said they condemn any
attack upon innocent civilians, Israeli or Palestinian.

This is the second explosion near the prime minister's
residence, the first occurring on March 5, 2002 at the
Moment Cafe. The Prime Minister was not at his
Jerusalem residence at the time of the attack.

Diplomatic officials said the prisoner swap with the
Hizbullah would continue despite the attack.

jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1075349808440

And my prediction that the Zionazis did this now to try to provoke a
suicide bombing in order to give them an excuse to cancel the prisoner
release arrangement with Hizbullah was CORRECT............except that
the US must have pressured them NOT to cancel the prisoner release.


On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:20:43 +0200, "Abu-Alwafa"
<almared_alarabi@yahoo.com> wrote:

Israel Kills 13 Palestinians In Gaza Raid

By Mostafa Al-Sawaf, IOL Correspondent

GAZA CITY, January 28 (IslamOnline.net) - At least 13 Palestinians were
killed at dawn Wednesday, January 28, in a new Israeli incursion into the
southern outskirts of Gaza City.

Witnesses told IslamOnline.net that Israeli armored vehicles and tanks
mounted a bloody raid on Al-Zeitun suburb, opening fire intensely and
randomly at houses and destroying a Palestinian security post.

Palestinian medics identified six of the dead as Moussa Daloul, 27, Iyaad
Al-Raai, 35, Ahmad Ali Abu Rekab, 30, Marwan Attiyah Basal, 30, Othman
Mohammad Jindiyah, 19, and Sameh Toutah, 22.

Director of emergency cases at Al-Shefaa Hospital, Dr. Goma Al-Saka, said
the death toll might rise, adding that ambulances raced through the

carrying the victims, with one of them taking Israeli fire.

Palestinian resistance fighters stood up to the Israeli raid, firing
rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and opening fire at the occupation

witnesses said.

The latest deaths bring the overall toll since the start of the

Intifada in September 2000 to 3,719, including 2,787 Palestinians and 865
Israelis, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) count.

Meanwhile, an Israeli special unit backed by armored vehicles stormed the
southern district of the West Bank city of Tulkarm and arrested a number

Palestinian youths, including 28-year-old Malik Saada Saleh Al-Jallad, a
leader in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

Dressed in civvies and traveling in a Ford with Palestinian plates, the
Israeli soldiers stormed Jallad's house, witnesses told IOL.

"Jallad tried in vain to make an escape as the occupation troops were
tightly surrounding the house," his brother, Muhannad, said.

He added that the Israeli troops forced his family, including women and
children, to leave the house and held them in a neighboring one.

Witnesses said dozens of employees at Tulkarm's education directorate

their offices under Israeli duress, adding that the occupation troops

fired stun bombs at nearby schools.

http://islamonline.net/

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:02:21 -0500, Le Mod Pol <mod_pol@usa.com>
wrote:

"On this difficult day for Israel, in which innocent
Israelis are murdered on the streets of its capital,
there is no room for concessions to the Palestinian
public."

10 KILLED IN JERUSALEM TERROR BOMBING

By BRET STEPHENS

A suicide bomber exploded inside a bus on the corners
of Gaza and Arlozorov streets, near the Prime
Minister's residence in Jerusalem's Rehavia
neighborhood at about 8:45 Thursday morning.

At least 10 people have been killed and 50 wounded.
Twelve people are listed in very serious condition in
three Jerusalem Hospitals.

All the wounded have been evacuated to hospitals. [See
bottom of story for Hospital telephone numbers].

Assistant director general of Hadassah Ein Kerem Prof.
Shmuel Shapira said 10 wounded had arrived at the
hospital. Five were seriously wounded, and five others
moderately wounded. Most of those brought to the
hospital were in their early twenties, Channel 1
reported.

Prof. Shapira said most of the wounded were suffering
from lesions caused by metal shards and from the impact
of the explosion. "They put in metal balls, nails and
bolts into these bombs," Shapira said.

Police and Magen David Adom arrived minutes after the
attack, and the area was cordoned off.

Jerusalem Police chief Mickey Levy said there were a
large number of fatalities. "The bomb was very big, the
entire back end of the bus was ripped apart," he said.
He said police had no specific warning for the attack.

Levy said police still had no leads but were
investigating. He said police think they know where the
suicide bomber mounted the bus.

"Jerusalem Police have recently managed to stop several
attacks, including the seizure of three explosive
belts. All of these planned attacks are still being
investigated. Today," he said, "we had no specific
warning of this attack and we couldn't stop it."

"The explosive was a large one," Levy continued, and
"we will investigate with the Egged bus company why
there was no security person on the bus," Levy said.

Half the roof of the bus was lifted 12 meters in the
air and was visible hundreds of meters away back part
of the bus. On the bus itself every window had been
blown out. There were three entire human corpses inside
the bus and two others lying outside.

There was a moped that was hit by the explosion, but it
was not clear whether the moped driver was amongst
those murdered or injured.

Keren, 14, an eyewitness who was waiting for the bus,
told Army Radio that the bus blew up meters before it
arrived at the station. People began running towards
the bus, she said, and then police arrived followed by
ambulances. "I remained rooted to the spot, crying,
until I was taken to hospital."

Police and security service said they receive between
50 and 60 general terror attack warnings per day.

Islamic Jihad and Hizbullah welcomed the bombing but
did not accept responsibility.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the
attack. Arab media reports a female suicide bomber
carried out the attack. Abdel Aziz Rantissi, a Hamas
leader in Gaza, stopped short of claiming
responsibility but said, "It's not important who
carried out this operation. The only thing which is
very important is that we are resisting occupiers who
came ... to occupy our land and to kill our people," he
said.

US ambassador to Israel Dan Kurtzer expressed his
horror and shock at the murder of innocent Jews and
reiterated US belief that "the Palestinians must take
all steps to make this stop. To stop incitements and
assistance to this murder of Jews and to take very
specific action to uproot terrorism from their midst."

In Strassbourge, the Council of Europe condemned the
deadly suicide bombing as a "mindless and
indiscriminate act of violence."

Walter Schwimmer, secretary general of the 45-nation
organization, said, "Every mindless and indiscriminate
act of violence such as this is an attack not only on
innocent human beings, but also on the very values that
our organization strives to uphold - namely democracy,
human rights and the rule of law."

Israel's former ambassador to the UN Dore Gold said,
"Only the deployment of the Israeli army has prevented
more attacks and only the final completion of the
security fence will prevent more attacks in the
future."

Cancelling a trilateral meeting between Israel, the
Palestinian Administration and US envoys John Wolf and
David Satterfield, the Israeli foreign ministry and
Prime Minister's ofice issued a joint statement saying,
"On this difficult day for Israel, in which innocent
Israelis are murdered on the streets of its capital,
there is no room for concessions to the Palestinian
public."

Shalom said that the PA must do all it has pledged to
do - to fight terror; otherwise there will be no
advance in the process.

Wolf and Satterfield have already met with the both
sides, and were to host the trilateral meeting Thursday
to re-ignite the stalled US road map.

PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, who Thursday agreed to
meet PM Ariel Sharon without preconditions, condemned
the suicide bombing in Jerusalem

According to police reports, a suicide bomber managed
to enter the bus, then explode at the back of the bus,
ripping off its roof. The bus driver said he did not
notice any suspicious-looking person enter the bus,
Israel Radio reported.

The explosion occurred moments after the bus pulled
away from its last station. The bus starts its route in
Hadassah Ein Kerem and makes its way to Hadassah Mount
Scopus.

Following the explosion, disoriented people were seen
milling around, some were seen at the scene walking
around with pieces of human flesh on them. A great deal
of blood was seen on the ground, and broken glass
littered the streets.

There was a ghostly silence immediately after the
attack; the silence one feels in Jerusalem on Shabbat.

Many of the people had managed to get off and make
their way to the corner of Arlozorov and Gaza Streets.
Some were sitting there in silence. Some of them had
pieces of flesh on their jackets.

One person seems to have had his ear torn in half.

Another women was bleeding profusely, her face covered
in blood.

Police chief Insp.-Gen. Shlomo Aharonishky said, "This
takes us back to the difficult days of the past. There
is no change in strategy on the other side. They are
always trying to carry out attacks. The thin line of
defense comprises the work of the security services,
the IDF, Police and Shin Bet. Even despite this we
cannot thwart every attack," Aharonishky said.

Aharonishky said the security fence being built around
the West Bank would help security forces thwart
attacks, but added that there was no fool-proof way to
stop terrorism. "Let me remind you that even the Great
Wall of China had holes in it," he said.

Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz will convene the heads of
the security establishment and other agencies to
discuss the implications of the bombing, and Israel's
response.

Road blocks have been set up by police at all major
exits from Jerusalem causing traffic jams at the Gush
Etzion Tunnel road.

Scores of Palestinians have been detained at the
roadside, and large vehicles are being searched.

Daniel Taub - a spokesman for the Israeli foreign
office told the BBC, "this particular attack took place
on a bus that runs between two hospitals and there is
no depth to which these terrorists are not prepared to
sink."

"The people whose job it is to stop these attacks, that
is the Palestinian leadership," he said, "is doing
nothing whatsoever. Their aim is to blow up every
single Israeli and Jew alive. In recent attacks entire
families have been murdered.

"We know that the only way forward is through
negotiations," Taub reiterated. "The problem is there
is no one with whom to conduct dialogue. We have a
Palestinian leader who has said he has no intention of
stopping terror. In a situation like that, dialogue is
not an option."

Knesset Security and Foreign Affairs committee chairman
Yuval Steinitz said the attack is aimed at
"embarrassing" Israel and making the release of 400
terrorists even more painful than it already is.
Israel's reaction, he said, should be to immediately
banish Yasser Arafat to Tunisia for his responsibility
for suicide attacks.

MK Ehud Yatom said the attack is a response by "Hassan
Nasrallah, Arafat, Yassin and the Iranian rulers to
Israel's weakness as evident in the prisoner swap."

Agriculture Minister Yisrael Katz said he had just
discussed with Ariel Sharon the need to banish Arafat,
in accordance with a cabinet decision from four months
ago.

Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski said "a day that should
have been a happy one started with many dead and
injured. We are one family, made of hard stuff, but
this kind of attack has implications for Jerusalem
after several months of quiet."

"Terrorists will always find excuses to kill us," he
continued. "There is no doubt that intentions exist.
I'm glad the fence is going up. I only wish it was
happening faster because we all know it protects us
all."

The Palestinian Administration condemned the attack.
Chief PA negotiator Saeb Erekat said they condemn any
attack upon innocent civilians, Israeli or Palestinian.

This is the second explosion near the prime minister's
residence, the first occurring on March 5, 2002 at the
Moment Cafe. The Prime Minister was not at his
Jerusalem residence at the time of the attack.

Diplomatic officials said the prisoner swap with the
Hizbullah would continue despite the attack.

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