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Dimona, Israel - Two dead in suspected suicide bombing
Reuters (excerpt) ^ | February 4, 2008

Posted on 02/04/2008 12:51:52 AM PST by HAL9000

TWO DEAD IN SUSPECTED SUICIDE BOMBING IN SOUTHERN ISRAELI TOWN OF DIMONA - ZAKA EMERGENCY SERVICE


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cafe; dimona; globaljihad; hamas; homicidebomber; humanbomb; israel; jihad; suicidebomber

1 posted on 02/04/2008 12:51:53 AM PST by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000
Haaretz.com - Possible terror attack causes casualties in Dimona
2 posted on 02/04/2008 12:53:04 AM PST by HAL9000
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ON THE INTERNET:

http://www.ynetnews.com
http://www.jpost.com


3 posted on 02/04/2008 12:57:00 AM PST by Cindy
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UPDATE:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202064575658&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Feb 4, 2008 10:47 | Updated Feb 4, 2008 11:00
“At least three dead in Dimona suicide bombing attack”
By JPOST.COM STAFF

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The police said the attack was a suicide bombing and said there may have been two suicide bombers.

The head of the Beersheba firefighting station told Israel Radio that at least three people were killed in the blast.”


4 posted on 02/04/2008 1:03:02 AM PST by Cindy
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To: HAL9000

Hmmm... this can’t be good for Barak and Daddy Olmert. They’re going to have to do something. If there’s a new wave of bombings I can see Israel having to reoccupy Gaza.


5 posted on 02/04/2008 1:03:39 AM PST by ketsu
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UPDATE:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202064575658&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Feb 4, 2008 10:47 | Updated Feb 4, 2008 11:06
“At least three dead in Dimona suicide bombing attack”
By JPOST.COM STAFF

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Multiple casualties were reported in a blast in a Dimona commercial center.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Rosa Elberg, a resident of the town said that the bomber detonated his explosives inside a café.”


6 posted on 02/04/2008 1:11:44 AM PST by Cindy
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READ THIS (especially if your are in Israel):

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/140933

AM
28 Shevat 5768, February 4, ‘08

“Dimona: Police Fear Second Bomber Prepared To Attack”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “(IsraelNN.com) Police fear that a second suicide bomber may be hiding in Dimona. At 10:30, a suicide bomber set off a blast at the old commercial center in Dimona and killed four people. It is not known if the bomber was among the dead, and initial reports indicated he was among three people critically wounded.

Police said there was no specific warning of an attack in the Negev delopement city, but Voice of Israel government radio reported there have been specific warnings of a terrorist attack in the Negev.”


7 posted on 02/04/2008 1:15:15 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy

SP= you’re


8 posted on 02/04/2008 1:19:27 AM PST by Cindy
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To: All; SJackson; yonif; ganeshpuri89; iso; Alouette; Selene; American in Israel; Godzilla

UPDATE:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202064575658&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Feb 4, 2008 10:47 | Updated Feb 4, 2008 11:17
One Israeli killed in Dimona suicide bombing attack
By JPOST.COM STAFF

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “One Israeli was killed and several more were wounded in a suicide attack in a Dimona commercial center.

Police said the attack was a suicide bombing carried by two attackers, but only one succeeded in detonating his explosives. The other terrorist was killed by a police officer seconds before exploding.

Magen David Adom ambulances were treating several more wounded on the secene.

Rosa Elberg, a resident of the town said that the bomber detonated his explosives inside a café.”


9 posted on 02/04/2008 1:22:13 AM PST by Cindy
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UPDATE:

Note: The following news brief is a quote:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3502426,00.html

Police commissioner raises alert level across Israel

Published:
02.04.08, 11:22 / Israel News

Police Commissioner Dudi Cohen on Monday raised the police’s alert level across Israel, focusing on the Seam Line, the Jerusalem vicinity and southern Israel, following the Dimona terror attack.

Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter briefed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on the attack. (Roni Sofer)


10 posted on 02/04/2008 1:36:13 AM PST by Cindy
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Some articles have updated to 3 dead — unknown if this is 1 victim + 2 terrorists dead. Fyi.


11 posted on 02/04/2008 1:47:41 AM PST by Cindy
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UPDATE:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202064575955&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Feb 4, 2008 11:31
“MK Kahlon: Dimona attack the direct result of Rafah border breach”


12 posted on 02/04/2008 1:48:24 AM PST by Cindy
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To: All; SJackson; backhoe; piasa; Godzilla

UPDATE:

QUOTE:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3502445,00.html

3 terror organizations claim responsibility for Dimona attack
Published: 02.04.08, 11:44 / Israel News

The al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, Fatah’s military wing, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian’s military wing, and the National Resistance Brigades have claimed responsibility for the terror attack in Dimona on Monday, Hizbullah’s television station al-Manar reported.

According to the report, the first suicide bomber was a Fatah member, while the second one was sent by the other two organizations. It was also reported that the two terrorists were residents of the Gaza Strip. (Roee Nahmias)


13 posted on 02/04/2008 2:09:53 AM PST by Cindy
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To: HAL9000

Quagmire. The Jews need to pull out of Israel. < \Democrat>


14 posted on 02/04/2008 2:14:34 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat ((I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!))
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Quagmire: You need to ‘pull out’ of your delusions!


15 posted on 02/04/2008 2:22:37 AM PST by unienglish26 (I'm for Curry!)
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UPDATE - QUOTE:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3502465,00.html

Dimona attack: Soroka Medical Center opens information hotline
Published: 02.04.08, 12:14 / Israel News

The Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba has opened an emergency hotline for information regarding Dimona attack causalities – 1255177.

One woman was killed and 11 others were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt in a Dimona shopping center, earlier Monday. (Meital Yasur-Beit Or)


16 posted on 02/04/2008 2:29:32 AM PST by Cindy
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To: unienglish26

can’t recognize sarcasm? ;-)


17 posted on 02/04/2008 2:29:58 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat ((I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!))
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To: Cindy; All

Scene of Arab terror attack (Photo: Yonat Atlas)

18 posted on 02/04/2008 2:38:26 AM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is never 'free')
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To: Cindy
Police said the attack was a suicide bombing carried by two attackers, but only one succeeded in detonating his explosives. The other terrorist was killed by a police officer seconds before exploding.

This is bad, but it sounds like it could have been even worse were it not for the quick reaction of the officer; too bad he couldn't have sent both of these agents of the devil to Allah's firey pit before detonation.

19 posted on 02/04/2008 2:40:41 AM PST by browardchad
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To: browardchad

Yes.


20 posted on 02/04/2008 2:44:09 AM PST by Cindy
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To: M. Espinola

Thank you for the photo/ping M. Espinola.


21 posted on 02/04/2008 2:45:25 AM PST by Cindy
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To: HAL9000

Dimona, Israel - Two dead in suspected suicide bombing...

and condi rice wants to give these f’n pali muzzie terrorists more US taxpayer money!!!!!!


22 posted on 02/04/2008 3:25:47 AM PST by nyyankeefan
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UPDATE:

Quote:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3502508,00.html

Dimona attack carried out by PLFP operative
Published: 02.04.08, 13:18 / Israel News

One of the bombers who carried out the Dimona bombing Monday was identified as Musa Arafat, a resident of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis.

Arafat was a member of the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades – the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian’s military wing. (Ali Waked)


23 posted on 02/04/2008 3:43:24 AM PST by Cindy
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24 posted on 02/04/2008 5:02:50 AM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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25 posted on 02/04/2008 5:23:15 AM PST by SJackson (If 45 million children had lived, they'd be defending America, filling jobs, paying SS-Z. Miller)
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26 posted on 02/04/2008 6:15:29 AM PST by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

I did. I got a little chuckle from your post.


27 posted on 02/04/2008 6:19:45 AM PST by F15Eagle (1Tim 1:4; Gal 1:6-10; 1Cor 2:2; Matthew 22:30; Mark 12:25; Luke 20:34-35; 2Thess 2:11; Jude 1:3)
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To: Diogenesis

When I hear something like this, my first thought is: “I hope the U.S. gives these terrorists more of our tax money. And demands that Israel cut up the land and hand it over so Fatah will have an easier time lobbing rockets.”


28 posted on 02/04/2008 7:12:56 AM PST by Cinnamon Girl (I'd rather win with McCain than lose with Romney)
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To: nyyankeefan

But doesn’t her boss tell us that “islam is a religion of peace”?


29 posted on 02/04/2008 9:49:20 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: ketsu
They’re going to have to do something.

Probably not. I don't think that this time will be any different.

30 posted on 02/04/2008 9:59:40 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: HAL9000

Dimona - isn’t that where the Israelis have a plutonium-producing nuclear reactor? Coincidence?


31 posted on 02/04/2008 11:04:18 AM PST by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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UPDATE:

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964807/posts

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claim suicide attack in Israeli town
al Bawaba ^ | Februari 04 2008
Posted on 02/04/2008 10:42:46 AM PST by knighthawk

A suicide bomber blew himself up in the southern Israeli town of Dimona on Monday, killing an Israeli woman, medical sources said. At least seven other people were injured in the attack.

Israeli reports said that there were two bombers, although only one managed to detonate his explosives belt; the other was shot in the head by an Israeli police officer before he could blow himself up.

A Fatah sources said the “Army of Palestine” wing of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades carried out the attack along with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Fatah sources were quoted as saying that 2008 would be a year of suicide attacks. A spokesman for the Al-Aqsa Brigades told AFP the bombers came from Gaza Strip, while a statement from the group said they had left for their mission from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

However, the two bombers were identified as residents of the Gaza Strip. One of them was identified as Luay Laghwan. The other bomber was named as Musa Arafat, 23.

In Gaza, Hamas spokesman Ayman Taha said the attack was justified. He also rejected suggestions that the bombing would hurt Hamas’ chances of reopening the border with Egypt. “The suicide bombings were there before the closures and the resistance used every opportunity to make these glorious acts,” he said. “They show the Palestinians can respond to the enemy and their crimes.”

The Islamic Jihad hailed the attack as a blow against “Israeli occupation.”

Dimona is the site of Israel’s nuclear reactor. However, Israeli government officials dismissed the notion that the reactor was the suicide attackers’ target. The explosion took place in a shopping area about six miles from the reactor site.

According to the AP, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Arye Mekel said, “the terror organizations have shown again who they are and what they are.” “Their goal was and continues to be to kill Israeli citizens in their homes and their schools and in their shopping centers,” he added. “Israel will continue to fight against this murderous terror.”


32 posted on 02/04/2008 2:14:52 PM PST by Cindy
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Note: The following news brief is a quote:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3502793,00.html

Published: 02.04.08, 22:52 / Israel News

Hamas’s armed wing claimed responsibility for a Palestinian suicide bombing that killed a woman in southern Israel on Monday, the first such attack inside Israel claimed by Hamas since 2004, a Hamas source told Reuters.

Other Hamas officials denied the report. (Reuters)


33 posted on 02/04/2008 2:17:53 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Diogenesis

Yep, another day in the Middle East “peace” process.


34 posted on 02/04/2008 2:18:27 PM PST by Cindy
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Thanks to Ali Veritas for this interesting thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1964560/posts


35 posted on 02/04/2008 2:23:30 PM PST by Cindy
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Yep, another day in the Middle East "peace" process.

Wonder what the great "peacemaker" Abbas will have to say about this with one of his Fatah subgroups claiming responsibility.

Time and again, it's been amply demonstrated that Fatah and Hamas are equal culprits in terror against Israel and the West. Acting as if Abbas is a "peace partner" is based upon delusional thinking.

36 posted on 02/04/2008 3:19:11 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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“The other terrorist was killed by a police officer from an elite unit seconds before he could detonate himself,”

They just showed video of this on the BBC World News. The “other terrorist” was largely incapacitated by the blast of the first. WARNING, WHAT HAPPENED NEXT IS GRAPHIC. The second bomber was lying on his back on a sidewalk still trying to manipulate an explosive belt with his left arm. An Israeli security officer approaches, kneels with a pistol at a distance of about 20-25 feet, here the video freezes, but you hear shots. Later the Israeli security officer states to the camera he shot the “other terrorist” in the head five times. Obviously the other bomb never goes off.

Praise be to willing security personnel!!!


37 posted on 02/04/2008 3:42:11 PM PST by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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Video:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7220000/newsid_7226300/7226313.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1&ms3=54&ms_javascript=true&bbcws=2


38 posted on 02/04/2008 4:10:06 PM PST by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: HAL9000

Dimona is the site of Israel’s nuclear facilities.

Is anyone talking about that?


39 posted on 02/04/2008 6:48:32 PM PST by dervish (Pray for the peace of an UNDIVIDED JEWISH Jerusalem)
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UPDATE:

JPOST.com: "WOMAN KILLED, 38 WOUNDED IN DIMONA SUICIDE BOMBING" (February 4, 2008)

40 posted on 02/05/2008 1:25:46 AM PST by Cindy
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Note: Photos included.

Blog:

http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003969.html

February 5, 2008
“Israel: Gaza Muslims Celebrate Suicide Bombing With Flowers And Candy”


41 posted on 02/05/2008 2:44:28 PM PST by Cindy
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Note: Photos included.

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/ct_040208e.htm

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)

“Suicide bombing attack in the Dimona commercial center kills one city resident and wounds many. Although a number of terrorist organizations claimed responsibility, it was apparently carried out by a Hamas terrorist squad from Hebron.”

February 5, 2008


42 posted on 02/05/2008 2:53:57 PM PST by Cindy
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If it’s open warfare on civilians, then I suspect Israel could, if desired, inflict a bit more pain on Palis than the other way around...


43 posted on 02/05/2008 2:58:10 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

Actually, if I may, I would like to expand your statement.

OPINION:

The global jihad hates Jews and Christians.
The global jihad wants the disbelievers dead
or converted to Islam.
The global jihad is just that — the GLOBAL jihad.

Something for all of to think about and that is why
I follow the global jihad and the gwot on the internet.


44 posted on 02/05/2008 3:04:47 PM PST by Cindy
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To: 2harddrive
"Dimona - isn’t that where the Israelis have a plutonium-producing nuclear reactor? Coincidence?"

Dimona is where their research reactor is. And I believe their bomb making facilities are. I'm sure this fact not lost on the pali terror-bombing murder squads. Perhaps they are testing the security of the town?

45 posted on 02/05/2008 3:13:37 PM PST by StormEye
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1963607/posts?page=217#217


46 posted on 02/05/2008 5:43:15 PM PST by Cindy
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=dimona

UPDATE:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019860.php
(ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS)

February 8, 2008

“Peace-loving, moderate Abbas regime says Dimona murderers were “holy martyrs””


47 posted on 02/08/2008 2:12:47 PM PST by Cindy
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