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(IsraelNN.com) ZAKA Rescue & Recovery organization Chief Yehuda Meshi-Zahav is confirming reports that Egyptian officials are not giving the green light to move ahead with their work – seeking to tend to the tens of bodies at the scene of the Taba Hilton Hotel. Meshi-Zahav describes the scene at the hotel as unorganized and chaotic, explaining Egyptian officials do not even have a line to speak directly with government officials in Cairo. Reports indicate the Egyptian tourism minister is expected on the scene, hopefully to permit recovery efforts to get underway.

Zayneb Abu Salem, 18, of the Askar refugee camp in Nablus was the eighth female suicide bomber to blow herself up since the outbreak of violence four years ago, and the 41st female recruited by terror organizations to perpetrate attacks. Wednesday's bombing occurred despite the general closure imposed on Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip imposed two weeks ago. Security officials said that no specific warning of plans by a suicide bomber to blow up in Jerusalem was received. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz held consultations on the phone with military and security officials following the attack, but security officials said...

WASHINGTON - Fatal traffic accidents increase sharply in Israel on the third day after a terrorist attack, and researchers are searching for an explanation why. An 18-month study found no notable change in fatal accidents on the day of an attack or the first or second day after. But fatalities jumped 35 percent on the third day, or a startling 69 percent after a terror attack that killed 10 people or more. "Why traffic fatalities increase on the third day after a terror attack remains a puzzle," Guy Stecklov of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Joshua R. Goldstein of...

AMMAN (AFP) - Two Jordanians were charged here with planning to carry out attacks on diplomats in the country, according to their charge sheet. In a separate case, another man was accused of having links with fellow Jordanian Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, considered to be the leader in Iraqof Osama bin Laden 's Al-Qaeda terror network. Student Khaled Abdelrahman Jibran, 20, and shop employee Abdelhamid Ezzat Mahmoud Yassin, 31, were charged by the state security court prosecutor with "conspiracy to carry out terrorist acts." They were also charged with planning "military operations against foreign diplomats as revenge on their countries for...

I don't think anyone with a conscience will ever forget where they were and what they were doing when the events of 9/11 unfolded. Me, I was in the American politics chatroom. I didn't have to work that day until 2pm and I woke up about 9:20 and the first thing I did was light a cigarette and log into chat. When I got there, one of the chatters said "Billy, did you hear about the plane that just crashed?" - I said No... and then i turned on FOX - just moments after I turned it on, I heard...

Translation from Hebrew to English by me: snip Over 100 casualties, including 15 murdered, 4 critically, 21 medium, and 47 lightly. All evacuated to Saroka Hospital in Beer Sheva. First reports indicate Hamas, harbored by the Palestinian Authority terrorist regime in Hebron, committed the attack. The site of the terror attacks shows, from first reports, the bodies of the two suicide terrorists.

What John Kerry's America will look like Ben Shapiro townhall.com July 14, 2004 This week, I began to think for the first time about what I would write if Sen. John Kerry were elected president in November. But then, I realized I should write that column now. What good would it do to awaken people to the dangers of a Kerry administration after that administration had been elected? Here, then, are a few predictions of what will transpire in the unlikely event that John Kerry becomes the most powerful man on Earth. Major terrorist attacks will occur in the United...

SARASOTA, Fla. -- Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" criticizes President Bush for listening to Sarasota second-graders read a story for nearly seven minutes after learning the nation was under attack on Sept. 11, 2001. But Gwendolyn Tose'-Rigell, the principal at Emma E. Booker Elementary School, says Bush handled himself properly. "I don't think anyone could have handled it better," Tose'-Rigell told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in a story published Wednesday. "What would it have served if he had jumped out of his chair and ran out of the room?" "Fahrenheit 9/11," which won the top honor at last month's Cannes Film...

The radical left group Gush-Shalom has a catch-phrase about the security fence: No Separation, No Security, Just a Land Grab. They're also fond of saying, along with their comrades from around the world and Saeb Erekat, that there is no military solution to terrorism. And although I agree that military solutions alone will not solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, I think it's hard to escape the efficacy of the fence and the military solution (a.k.a. Operation Defensive Shield). Check it out:

Jerusalem police have arrested three Palestinian teenagers suspected of carrying out two lethal shooting attacks in the city over the last month, and planning a series of other attacks against Jews, police announced Sunday. The three suspects were caught red handed in their vehicle on Friday night as they planned to shoot another Israeli in the city's Ramat Eshkol neighborhood. A court gag order which was in place on the case at police's request was lifted late Sunday afternoon, after the suspects reenacted the crimes. The three men, Sajid Abu-Alous, 18, and his cousin Amar Abu-Alous, 19, from the Jerusalem...

Translation from Hebrew to English by me: Explosions were heard at 3 different police stations in Basra, which is in Iraq. A police spokesman in the city said that there are many injured people.

Police: Shin Bet, security forces prevented five terror attacks in Jerusalem over past two weeks

An Open Letter to the People of Spain by Laura Mansfield, Analyst The terrorist attack that massacred 200 of your countrymen, and injured over a thousand, was a horrific act. The world grieves with you. We all know it could have happened to our people in our countries just as easily as it happened in Madrid last Thursday. But no matter how tragic and horrible that act was, it was not a victory for the terrorists. The victory for the terrorists in Spain came on Sunday. The professed goal of the attack, according to numerous Al Qaeda communiques, was to...

UNITED NATIONS, March 11 (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Thursday condemned the Basque separatist group ETA as the perpetrators of the deadly bombings in Spain, although members had no way of determining the veracity of the charge. Despite some hesitations over the resolution, members voted 15-0 to accept the word of the Spanish government, which immediately blamed the ETA for the simultaneous explosions that killed 190 people and injured more than 1,200 on packed trains in Madrid. The resolution "condemns in the strongest terms the bomb attacks in Madrid, Spain, perpetrated by the terrorist group ETA on 11...

Israel News Agency Honors Terror Victims, IDF with Hatikva By Israel News Agency Staff Jerusalem----February 29....The Israel News Agency, the first Internet source for breaking news from Israel since 1995, again is revolutionizing the Internet as Israel steps up it's PR and information campaign. "We have a very potent tool which Israel has kept in it's arsenal since 1948, it's called 'Hatikva', and it's about time we start using it," said Joel Leyden, publisher of the Israel News Agency and CEO of Leyden Communications (Israel). "The national anthem of Israel provokes Zionist thought and stirs deep emotional feelings among us...

The bombed No. 19 bus, which killed 11 Israelis only three weeks ago, pulled up in front of the Peace Palace Monday morning, where the International Court of Justice resides. The court's three-day oral proceedings over the legality of the disputed West Bank security fence began at 11 a.m. Monday, with thousands of people from all over the world demonstrating on the streets of The Hague, in the Netherlands. While members of Zaka were taking the covering off the bus, dozens of protesters were holding up a large poster with photographs of many of the over 900 Israeli victims of...

<p>Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Germany faces an ``immediate threat'' of terrorist attacks, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper said, citing a report by Western secret services.</p> <p>Germany is ``within the spectrum of targets of Islamic terrorism and not just a retreat anymore'' for members of terrorist groups, the newspaper cited the report as saying.</p>

The US embassy has warned of a "particularly high" risk of terror attacks in Indonesia over Christmas and the New Year. "The potential for additional bombings of places where Americans and Westerners are known to live, congregate, shop, or visit... is particularly high during the weeks around Christmas through the New Year," the embassy said in an advisory to Americans. It recalled a bombing campaign against churches and priests which killed 19 people nationwide on Christmas Eve 2000. The Al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terror group is blamed for the Christmas Eve blasts and a series of others, including the...

Two key suspects in the series of suicide bombings in Istanbul that killed 61 people met with and took instructions from Osama bin Laden's right-hand man, newspapers reported Tuesday, a day after the government made its strongest statement linking the bombers to al-Qaida. Hurriyet newspaper, quoting from the testimony of one of the suspects, said main suspects Habib Aktas and Azad Ekinci met with bin Laden's top surviving lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, several times. The two Turks are suspected of hatching the plans for the Nov. 15 suicide bombings against two synagogues and on the British Consulate and a British bank...

The heightened threat of suicide bombings was last night forcing UK embassies around the world to re-evaluate their defences against what an al-Qaida statement described as its "cars of death". The explicit warning of fresh "martyrdom operations" was published as police in Istanbul detained seven suspects in connection with the devastating blasts at the British consulate and the HSBC bank. All are understood to be Turkish passport holders. Two of them, tentatively identified by the Turkish media as Azad Ekinci and Feridun Ugurlu, were close friends of Mesut Cabuk and Gokhan Elaltuntas, the men who carried out the suicide bombings...