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Posted on 10/10/2002 7:47:41 AM PDT by 1bigdictator
Suicide Bomber Slips, Major Attack Averted
Ten minutes before 8AM this morning, a crowded Dan Company bus number 87 stopped to pick up northbound passengers on the Geha Highway opposite Bar-Ilan University, near Ramat Gan, when - unknowing to the bus driver – an Arab passenger trying to board the bus through the back doors, slipped and fell on the pavement outside as the doors closed. When the bus began to pull away several passengers alerted the driver as to what happened. The driver stopped the bus and along with a doctor on board, went to attend to the fallen passenger. After approaching the man laying on the ground the two caught a glimpse of something suspicious wrapped around the Arab’s body, which turned out to be an explosives belt. The driver and the doctor then grabbed the bomber’s arms preventing him from detonating his device and screamed for everyone on the bus to flee.
When the bus was cleared the two men let the Arab go and started running away. Seconds later, the bomber ran towards a group of people nearby and detonated his explosives killing himself along with an Israeli woman. Eleven others were lightly wounded in the attack. The victims were transported to nearby hospitals. Eyewitnesses say that had the Arab succeeded in boarding the bus, the tragedy would have been catastrophic.
Easy for you to say.
Not to mention that his family's prolly gonna get their hovel bulldozed.
Or not. I think it's reasonable to assume that the guy was fighting like crazy to blow himself up. An arm could get free at any moment.
We can certainly wish that somebody had actually incapacitated the dirtbag (a bullet would have been nice), but I'm not going to fault anybody for not rushing into the killing radius of a demented bomb.
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What the--- these idiots are complicit in the murders!
An Israeli woman was killed and twelve people were injured, one seriously, when a suicide bomber detonated himself this morning outside a passenger bus underneath a bridge on the Geha highway, east of Tel Aviv. The bomber attempted to board the bus through its back door, and when the driver closed the door, the bomber fell to the ground. Coming to aid the fallen man, the driver saw the explosive belt and told his passengers to flee.
The woman killed in the bombing was identified as Saada Aharon, 71, of Ramat Gan. She was critically wounded in the attack and rushed to Petach Tikva's Beilinson Hospital where she died after unsuccessful attempts to resuscitate her.
The blast occurred just before 8 a.m. Thursday morning at the Coca Cola junction between Bnei Brak and Bar-Ilan University. The driver of Dan bus number 87 on its way from Petach Tikva to Tel Hashomer closed the back door of the bus as the suicide bomber was attempting to board. Seeing the man fall to the ground, and assuming he was an injured passenger, the driver and one other person went to the person's aid.
When the two discovered the man was wearing an explosive belt, they gripped his hands to prevent him from detonating the bomb, Ha'aretz reported. They called to the fifty some passengers on the bus, many of them soldiers, to get off and flee the scene. Only then did they release the bomber's hands and distance themselves as well.
Tel Aviv Police Chief Yossi Sedbon said the bomber then got up and moved forward some 30 meters before detonating his explosives. Apparently many of the wounded were people standing outside the bus.
A "major disaster" was averted, Sedbon said. "If the bomber had blown himself up on the bus there would have been a disaster with lots of people injured."
Deputy Tel Aviv Police Chief David Krause said police were closing off the area in attempts to round up additional suspects. "There were no specific warnings of an impending attack in this area," he said.
"We pinned down his arms," said bus driver Baruch Neuman. "There were lots of people at the bus stop. After everyone fled, we released him and he blew up."
Neuman, who was unarmed, said he let go of the bomber because he feared for his own life. He said the assailant was beginning to struggle. "We made the decision together to let go of the arms, and to flee together," he said.
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