Terrorist armed with a Catarpillar…
Since this blog was offline all day yesterday, here’s the one post I wanted to make but couldn’t. Until now.
JERUSALEM - A Palestinian laborer driving a construction vehicle rammed into packed buses, tossed cars into the air and rolled over pedestrians in a deadly rampage Wednesday that killed three people and wounded dozens in Jerusalem.
The attacker’s unusual weapon — a yellow Caterpillar front loader transformed into a deadly assault vehicle — threatened both Israelis’ sense of security and Palestinians’ fragile status in the city.
Hundreds of panicked people were sent running for cover before the attacker was shot dead by security forces. Three Palestinian militant groups claimed responsibility for the onslaught, the first major attack in Jerusalem in four months.
However, Israeli police said the assailant, a 30-year-old Palestinian from Arab east Jerusalem, apparently acted alone. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the man was working on a railway project in Jerusalem.
That was the CBS News censored version. If you are a Youtube registered user, you can access many other versions where you see the actual end of the terrorist.
Below, a roundup of the incident from CNN.
July 3rd, 2008 at 19:02
Don’t you think the ‘terrorist’ label is more to do with where the event occurred? Every city has it’s fruitloops, whether it’s the college gunmen in America or the people sending 1080 poison to our members of parliament in misguided attempts at protest. Maybe he is/was just a schizo who forgot to take his meds?
July 4th, 2008 at 6:14
You are correct about the context. No, I don’t think it’s the wrong label.
The man entered a busy street with a front-loader, killed people and would have continued killing until he was stopped. This is, in fact, exactly what happened.
This is the second arab from East Jerusalem to kill Jews this year. He’s a terrorist according to the location, that’s true, but you can’t ignore the fact that an arab killed Jews.
Last March, an arab Muslim entered a school and shot kids in the library. Jewish kids.
The day a Bedouin goes off to kill Jews inside Israel, I’ll consider the “schizo off his meds” label. Until then, this guy was a terrorist.
July 4th, 2008 at 14:19
You never know when…You never know where…You seldom know why unless you call it what it is: irrational hatred.