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Police: Bat Yam Bus Bomb Was a Terror Attack
Arutz Sheva ^ | 22/12/13 | David Lev

Posted on 12/22/2013 7:34:57 AM PST by Eleutheria5

Passengers on a bus in Bat Yam where a bomb exploded Sunday afternoon attributed the fact that no one was killed to a miracle. Police said that based on their initial investigation, the explosion on the number 240 bus from Bnai Brak to Bat Yam was due to a bomb placed by Arab terrorists.

One person – a police bomb squad officer – was injured as he approached a suspicious package on the bus. A spokesperson for the Dan Bus Company said that there twelve passengers on the bus when a passenger alerted the driver that there was a suspicious object on board. The object was in a bag, which one of the passengers opened. Noticing there were wires coming out of the bag, the passenger alerted the driver, who immediately evacuated the passengers.

Witnesses said that there was a gaping hold in the back third of the bus, indicating that the explosive device was a large one. “Imagine if the bus had been full, or if the driver had not taken everyone off the bus, or if everyone had ignored the bag,” said one witness. “It was a miracle everyone was saved.”

The police officer who was hurt when the bomb went off was lightly injured, police said. The device exploded as he went on the bus, and he was injured by flying shrapnel which hit him as was entering the bus.

The driver of the bus, Michael Yoger, told reporters that “a woman told me that there was an unattended bag on the bus. I asked who it belonged to, but no one answered, and when I realized that it had just been left there I took all the passengers off the bus. Within ten minutes the bomb exploded.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: batyam; bneibrak; busbomb; miracle
More "good" news. They can't find anyone dumb enough to strap it on. Apparently breaking 72 consecutive cherries has lost its allure.
1 posted on 12/22/2013 7:34:58 AM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Terror attack? Hmmmm....sounds more like a workplace accident.

Well, that’s how the administration would classify it.


2 posted on 12/22/2013 7:41:43 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

A McPoem

The Amish are frustrated again.

Piece process goes forward, and bombs explode.

John Kerry’s a despicable toad.


3 posted on 12/22/2013 7:44:39 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5


4 posted on 12/22/2013 9:02:09 AM PST by Iron Munro (Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Let me guess the ideology of the one who did it.


5 posted on 12/22/2013 9:05:51 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: Eleutheria5

God bless this bus driver for getting everyone off the bus!


6 posted on 12/22/2013 9:36:09 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

Oddly enough, they targeted a bus from Bnei Brak, a hotbed of anti-Zionists and ultra-Orthodox Charedim. Not the first time, either. They fear the proficy of Sura 17, and therefore fear the People of the Book, who might come into their own quite soon. For the same reasons, Montezuma feared Cortez, not despite Quetzelcoatl’s prophecy of his coming, but because of it.


7 posted on 12/22/2013 9:58:12 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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