A system intended to protect buses from palisplodians suicide bombers will be installed in the coming three weeks on a number of buses to check the applicability of the system. Within a number of months, the system will be installed on many buses across the country.
Officials expect world condemnation for this blatant infringement of the basic human right to blow Israelis up.
The new system, which was developed by Israeli Military Industries and the Transportation Ministry, allows the driver to block anyone he deems suspicious from entering the bus by hitting a red button which closes a turnstile. Electronic gates will be installed at rear entrances, which have been used by bombers to sneak on without the driver knowing. A sheet of armor is also mounted on the front of the bus below the window to block shrapnel if a bomber detonates right outside. The system still depends on the driver being able to see through the would-be bomber’s disguise, but later versions will be built using electronic explosives detectors that trigger an alarm and let the driver shut the door. "Public transportation has been a preferred target of terrorists," said Transportation Minister Avigdor Lieberman at the Ramat Hasharon headquarters of IMI. "Now we have developed the technology to confront this problem." |