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| Jerusalem driver wounds 15 Israelis |
| 2008-09-23 |
| Israel said 15 people were injured when a driver drove his car late on Monday into a group of people at a busy West Jerusalem intersection, wounding at least 15 people in what police described as a "terrorist" attack, before the Arab driver was shot dead, an Israeli police spokesman and medics said. One of those struck by the car was seriously injured, a spokesman for the Magen David Adom ambulance service said of the incident at Kikar Tzahal which overlooks to the Old City of Jerusalem. "A man in a vehicle struck a number of people in Kikar Tzahal," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. "We can confirm it was a terrorist attack. The man was shot and killed." It was not immediately clear who shot the driver. One Israeli television report said he was killed by a bystander. The area would have been busy on a warm evening with people going to the area's bars and restaurants in the heart of the Jewish western side of the city. The attack revived memories of two previous incidents in Jerusalem this year when Palestinians driving construction vehicles have attacked Israelis. |
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| Posted by: tu3031 2008-09-23 09:18 |
| #2 "My son was murdered, they killed him. He did not carry out a terrorist attack. This was a car accident." And your auto insurance company is....? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-09-23 09:16 |
| #1 The terrorist who rammed his BMW into a group of soldiers at a central Jerusalem thoroughfare late Monday, Qassem Mughrabi, 19, from Jebl Mukaber in east Jerusalem, was a member of Hamas, according to the Palestinian Ma'an news agency. Mughrabi, a resident of the same village as the Mercaz Harav terrorist who killed eight in March, wounded fifteen people before being shot dead by an off-duty IDF officer. The assailant had no previous security record, police said Tuesday. The 19-year-old had wanted to marry his cousin, and when she refused his offer, he decided to carry out a terror attack, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said. On Monday night he left his east Jerusalem home with the car that his parents had bought him and which was to be his when he got his driver's license, and went on the rampage. Jerusalem police chief Aharon Franco said Monday night that the attacker was shot dead "within seconds" by an off-duty IDF officer who was touring the city with his unit. He added that there was no intelligence information ahead of the attack, but noted that Jerusalem was under heavy security alert due to Ramadan. And the obligatory... The driver of the black BMW was identified as Qassem Mughrabi, 19. Mahmoud Mughrabi, 49, his father, said his son did not have a driving licence and apparently lost control of the car. "My son was murdered, they killed him. He did not carry out a terrorist attack. This was a car accident." |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-09-23 09:10 |