Posted on 12/01/2001 12:57:22 PM PST by asa9
Blast that rocked downtown Jerusalem a short time ago was the result of one or two suicide bombers in the are of Zion Square. It appears that there are many dead and injured.
That and wrapped up with a few other bad habits
like not bathing
wearing a tent
and sacrificing your own children to the party ideology
Way past time...the question is, how serious is Pres. Bush with his war on terror?
Totally.
Naw, how about pork BBQ shops?
Those who stayed are now citizens. Those who fled were squatters anyway. End of story.
An injured Israeli is evacuated to an ambulance after a suicide bomb-attack in the center of Jerusalem.
December 1, 2001-- Suicide Bombers Blast Jerusalem Mall /By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/ Filed at 5:58 p.m. ET [Full Text]
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Two suicide bombers detonated explosives in a crowded pedestrian mall in downtown Jerusalem late Saturday, killing themselves and at least one person and wounding more than 130, police and paramedics said.
Witnesses said they saw several bodies lying on the ground.
``There were lots of limbs and dead bodies,'' said Michael Perry, 37, who ran out of a bar along the Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall after hearing the back-to-back blasts just before midnight. ``I saw three dead and what looked like the remains of the suicide bomber. It was just a lump of something,'' Perry said.
Another bystander, Eli Shetreet, 19, said he saw bodies being hurled in the air. ``A lot of people were crying, falling, and there was the smell of burning hair,'' he said.
After the blasts, cafe doors were closed and patrons huddled inside. A young man and woman sitting in the corner of one cafe held on to each other.
Shortly after the suicide bombings, an explosion went off in a car parked near the mall, said Police Chief Mickey Levy. Apparently no one was hurt in that explosion. At the sound of the third explosion, pedestrians ran up the street in a panic.
Paramedics said at least 130 people were wounded, many in their late teens and 20s. The Ben Yehuda mall is usually packed with young Israelis on Saturday evening. The mall has been the target of suicide attacks in the past, including in 1997.
Just up the block, on the corner of King George and Jaffa streets, a suicide bomber blew himself up last summer in a crowded pizzeria, killing himself and 15 diners.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Saturday's blasts.
However, the militant Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups have threatened to avenge Israel's targeted killing in November of Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, the leader of the Hamas military wing in the West Bank. Abu Hanoud was killed in an Israeli missile attack.
The suicide bombings came only two days after an Islamic Jihad militant blew himself up on an Israeli bus, killing three passengers and himself.
The attacks come at a time when a senior U.S. envoy, retired Marine Corps Gen. Anthony Zinni, is trying to secure a cease-fire. However, since Zinni's arrival last week, there has been an upsurge in violence, especially by Palestinian militants trying to derail his mission. Zinni has said he would not be deterred by violence, and would stay in the region as long as it takes. [End]
Needed to be repeated.
Never interfere with an enemy while he is destroying himself.
Radical Islam will force mainstream Islam to change - or the entire religion will be destroyed. (along with a big black rock sitting in the middle of the Arabian desert)
The Bible makes it clear that the line of Ishmael would be blessed but it is the line of Isaac from which the Salvation of the World was to come.
[Ishmael's line] Arabs then developed their own religious doctrine [Islam] that circumvented the Blessing of Abraham and said they [the line of Ishmael] would be the line that brings salvation to the world.
The Arab concern isnt for Palestinian welfare. On the contrary, Palestinians are looked down upon within Arab ranks as a form of "arab trash".
The concern is the fact that an actual "nation" called Israel now exists....confirming the Bible and the Old testament assertion that it is the line of Isaac that brings forth the savior[The actual capture and reinstalment of Jerusalem as it's capital is another confirmation/thus the warfare over handing over Jerusalem or parts there of to the Palestinians].
Point blank...bottom line...that is the warfare.
Everything else...no matter the claim or source...is subordinate to this.
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