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Palestinian Arab terrorists driving two cars and a bulldozer burst through an Israeli army checkpoint in Samaria on Wednesday and attempted to run down the Israeli soldiers manning the position. The Israelis fired their weapons in the air, quickly convincing the Palestinian to halt the attack before anyone was injured. The four terrorists were all taken into custody and their vehicles confiscated. The incident comes less than 48 hours after an Arab teenager rammed his car into a group of Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem, wounding 17 people. Also on Wednesday, an Israeli soldier subdued and arrested a 16-year-old Palestinian after...

Sixteen people were wounded, one of them moderately, as a bulldozer driver went on a rampage in central Jerusalem Tuesday afternoon in an apparent attempt to recreate the terror attack in the capital earlier this month. The vehicle reportedly left a construction site near Yemin Moshe neighborhood and set off towards Liberty Bell Park (Gan Hapa'amon), near the corner of Keren Hayesod and King David streets. It drove a distance of approximately 160 meters, attempting to overturn a bus and crashing into four other vehicles - one of which it flipped over. The man was then shot dead by a...

Bulldozer driver rampages in Jerusalem, shot dead 22 Jul 2008 11:13:13 GMT Source: Reuters (Adds police spokesman's comments) JERUSALEM, July 22 (Reuters) - A bulldozer went on a rampage in Jewish west Jerusalem on Tuesday, in the second such attack this month, and rammed into cars before the bulldozer's driver was shot dead, police said. The attack occurred just down the street from the hotel where U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is due to stay during a visit to Israel scheduled for Wednesday.

In the aftermath of the bulldozer attack in downtown Jerusalem, Zuhier Hamdan, one of the mukhtars of the Jerusalem Arab village of Sur Bahir, home to the terrorist, was widely interviewed in the press. As reporters asked Hamdan for his reaction to the attack, I was reminded of the interview I conducted five years ago with the Israel-friendly village leader.

On Wed. July 2, 2008, an Arab started trying to kill people on a very packed busy street in Jerusalem with his work vehicle, a caterpillar type of huge bulldozer. He just drove it onto the adjacent packed street and started trying to crush cars. One of the first cars he attacked was ours. In our car were my husband in the front passenger seat, me the driver, and 3 of our girls in the back; we were on our way to meet visiting friends. As we drove toward the place, we were on the packed street called Sarei Yisrael,...

"We were on our way to the museum with the kids when we suddenly saw a bunch of construction workers run frantically out of the construction site," Rick Eissenstat said Thursday. The father of three who immigrated with his family from Baltimore, Maryland, four years ago, said God saved them from Jerusalem's bulldozer-driving terrorist. "The guy was driving about 30 miles an hour, probably the maximum speed that bulldozer could go," Eissenstat continued. "I tried to back up to get out of the way but cars behind me blocked me." "The right wheel of the bulldozer crushed a taxi cab...

Israel Border Police officials on Thursday ordered the family of an Arab terrorist who used his bulldozer to crush and maim Israelis on a main Jerusalem thoroughfare a day earlier to take down a mourning tent they had set up for the deceased killer. Husam Dwayat was himself killed by an off-duty Israeli soldier who leapt atop the rampaging bulldozer as it plowed into pedestrians, cars and public buses on central Jerusalem’s Jaffa Street on Wednesday.

This is the moment an off-duty Israeli soldier and a special anti-terror officer shot dead a Palestinian terrorist who had killed three Israelis and injured more than 40 by ramming a bulldozer into buses and cars on one of west Jerusalem's busiest streets. The off-duty soldier, seen in the foreground of the below photograph, climbed on the moving bulldozer and shot the man, who slumped over the steering wheel. 'Liquidated': An armed man clings to the bulldozer after shooting dead the terrorist The off-duty soldier, his gun clearly visible, climbs higher on the cab as the driver can be seen...

Three people were killed and 66 were wounded - one moderately and the rest lightly - on Wednesday afternoon when a bulldozer driver went on a rampage in downtown Jerusalem. The attack, at the junction of Jaffa Road and Sarei Yisrael St., set off a panic in the area and left a large swath of damage in the heart of the capital. Traffic was halted, and hundreds of people fled through the streets in panic as medics treated the wounded. A car was dragged several meters by the bulldozer before being crushed under the vehicle. The parents of a baby...

A policeman was being hailed as a hero Wednesday after he climbed up on the cab of the bulldozer driven by a terrorist and shot him dead. The terrorist - an Arab resident of East Jerusalem - had smashed the bulldozer into a series of vehicles, including a commuter bus-- (excerpted)

Today's terror attack in Jerusalem--a personal perspective.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The story of 23-year-old Olympia native Rachel Corrie gripped the Northwest in March 2003 when she was killed in the Gaza Strip by a bulldozer operated by the Israeli army as she tried to block demolition of a Palestinian family's home. The emotions around her death were tumultuous. A New York production of a play about her diaries was shut down after objections from pro-Israel activists. Indeed, the force of Corrie's convictions made her writing shimmer with urgency. On March 7, W.W. Norton published her diaries and poems under the title "Let Me Stand Alone." These excerpts are...

A new mini-bulldozer developed by the IDF has emerged as the latest in a series of new ways to combat Palestinian Authority terrorism emanating from Arab cities in Gaza, Judea and Samaria. The “Lioness” made its public debut in the pages of this week’s edition of “BaMachane,” the IDF weekly magazine. Although it looks like a cute little vehicle, however, the Lioness can be deadly. Unlike its predecessor, the new bulldozer was specifically designed for counter-terrorism operations in close quarters, according to IDF Col. Amir Kochavi, who was quoted in the report. “There are different combat requirements that we faced...

The IDF has developed a tiny bulldozer for combat operations inside Palestinian cities, a military publication reported. The little machine is designed for rumbling down narrow roads and paths in the closer quarters of Palestinian cities, where old sections are warrens of crowded alleyways between rundown concrete block buildings. In previous operations, Israeli forces have sent full-size bulldozers ahead of ground troops, causing considerable damage to buildings. The current edition of the soldiers' weekly Bamahaneh carries a picture of the new machine, called "Lioness." It looks like a toy - a vehicle higher than it is wide or long, painted...

TROY – A local man who said he had been harassed by police is in custody after allegedly driving a bulldozer through the front of the Troy Police Department early yesterday. Stanley Burt, 34, of 24 Colonial Drive was arraigned at Keene District Court yesterday on charges of criminal mischief, reckless conduct with a deadly weapon, and driving and probation violations. Authorities said Burt, who has a history of altercations with the police department, repeatedly hit the building with a stolen D3 Caterpillar bulldozer, causing severe structural damage and cutting the facility's power and phone lines.

NEW YORK--Politics makes artists stupid. Take "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," the one-woman play cobbled together from the diaries, emails and miscellaneous scribblings of the 23-year-old left-wing activist who was run over by an Israeli Army bulldozer in 2003 while protesting the demolition of a Palestinian house in the Gaza Strip. Co-written and directed by Alan Rickman, one of England's best actors, "Rachel Corrie" just opened off-Broadway after a successful London run. It's an ill-crafted piece of goopy give-peace-a-chance agitprop--yet it's being performed to cheers and tears before admiring crowds of theater-savvy New Yorkers who, like Mr. Rickman himself, ought...

MOSSVILLE, Ill., Sept 21 (Reuters) - Mark Pflederer dreams of dancing bulldozers. Pflederer, the chief technology officer at heavy machinery maker Caterpillar Inc. (CAT.N: Quote, Profile, Research), believes that, within a few years, his company's earthmovers will be able to operate without drivers, spinning around each other on worksites like dancers in a robotic ballet choreographed by onboard computers and satellite-based navigation systems. "Ten or 15 years down the road," he says, "it's not too much of a stretch to think that we could run multiple bulldozers, wheel loaders or trucks on a site and move the operators to a...

BAALBEK, Lebanon -- People in a village outside this Hezbollah stronghold used a front-end loader's scoop to carry away some of the dead Wednesday after a night of Israeli airstrikes and a commando raid inside Baalbek that residents said killed at least 15 civilians. It was the deepest thrust into Lebanon by Israeli troops since fighting broke out between Israel and Hezbollah on July 12. Israel said its soldiers killed at least 10 Hezbollah guerrillas and captured five. A crowd of about 50 people from the village of Al Jamaliyeh carried pictures of Hezbollah's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, during a...

LONDON - A Church of England body has reaffirmed its support for continued investment in Caterpillar Inc., despite concern over reports that Caterpillar tractors had been used by Israel to knock down Palestinian homes. The Ethical Investment Advisory Group said Monday in its annual report that it did not recommend disinvestment at this time because it had been informed that Caterpillar had made no sales to Israel in recent years, and because it did not wish to do anything to impede negotiations between Israel and Palestinian authorities. But the panel "was clear that, were sales to resume, the matter would...

The tornadoes that shattered schools in Oologah and Catoosa were acts of nature. What happened Sunday morning at Sequoyah High School was different -- an act of wanton destruction so calculated and methodical that it left authorities, administrators, teachers and students in shock. The first call to the Rogers County Sheriff’s Office reported what sounded like an explosion followed by “all the fire alarms going off.” But when Superintendent Terry Saul and Deputies Bryan Buchfink, and Mike Scott arrived, it was worse than they could have imagined. Vandals armed with a bulldozer had laid waste to Richelle Helbig’s family and...

The Nation -- So much for freedom of speech, let alone thought. The play My Name Is Rachel Corrie, directed in London by actor Alan Rickman and due to open in New York City in March, has been canceled for fear of controversy. The play adapts the diaries of the 23-year-old woman from Seattle who was murdered in Rafah in 2003, when she was deliberately run down by an Israeli Defense Forces bulldozer. Rachel had traveled to the Gaza Strip during the last intifada as an activist for the International Solidarity Movement. My Name Is Rachel Corrie has enjoyed two...

Parents of slain US activist briefly held in Gaza Wed Jan 4, 2006 12:11 PM ET GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen briefly seized the parents of Parents of slain US activist briefly held in Gaza Wed Jan 4, 2006 12:11 PM ET GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen briefly seized the parents of slain U.S. activist Rachel Corrie as they visited the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, but relented after being confronted by a member of the security forces, witnesses said. They said Craig and Cindy Corrie, whose daughter was fatally run down by an Israeli bulldozer as she tried to prevent...

Cindy and Craig Corrie will address the Baptist Peace Fellowship, a group that promotes peace and justice Cindy Corrie's daughter was crushed by a bulldozer in 2003 as she stood by the wall of a home where two families lived in the Gaza Strip. Rachel Corrie, 23, had gone to the beleaguered area bordered by Egypt and Israel as part of the International Solidarity Movement, which uses non-violent methods to try to halt the destruction of Palestinian homes by Israeli forces, said Cindy Corrie of Olympia. To carry out the ideals of their daughter, Cindy and Craig Corrie have formed...

MILFORD -- Activists protesting the death of a young woman who lost her life while trying to stop the Israeli military from bulldozing a Palestinian home brought their message to... http://www.milforddailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=67603

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli-Palestinian talks on security coordination scheduled after a ceasefire summit meeting were postponed on Thursday because of a fresh outbreak of violence, Palestinian officials said. "Today's meeting with the Israelis has been postponed. The Israelis asked to cancel it because of mortar firing in Gaza earlier today," one senior official said. Palestinian militants fired dozens of mortar bombs into Jewish settlements in Gaza in a barrage they said avenged the killing of a Palestinian by Israeli army gunfire the day before. They denied that they were defying a ceasefire declaration by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...

JERWOOD THEATRE UPSTAIRS Taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE Directed by Alan Rickman 07 April 2005 - 30 April 2005 Evening Performances - Monday – Saturday 7.45pm Saturday Matinees - 16, 23, 30 April 4pm Press night(s) - Thursday 14, Friday 15 April 7pm Why did a 23-year-old woman leave her comfortable American life to stand between a bulldozer and a Palestinian home? The short life and sudden death of Rachel Corrie, and the words she left behind. MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE has been developed by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner, in collaboration...

THE TRIAL of Father Athanase Seromba, a Roman Catholic Priest accused of participating in the Rwanda genocide of 1994, will begin on Monday this week before the UN court in Arusha, says Roland Amoussouga, spokesman for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.Father Seromba, a former Catholic priest at Nyange Parish, Kibuye Province, surrendered to UN authorities in Italy in February last year following pressure from human-rights activists and the Rwandan government.He was called to Italy to study soon after the massacres and was sheltered in the diocese of Florence, Italy since 1997 despite calls for him to be handed over....

  Home Links Contact Us   The Egyptian army attacks St. Patmos convent again..     The army soldiers standing next to the bulldozer during the destruction. The workers inside the monastery watching the army buldozer destroying the gate The rubble in front of the monastery gate A worker watching the destruction in surprise Some of the rubble   Next 6 photos On Monday the 5th of January 2004 an Egyptian army unit launched another attack on St. John nuns' Convent, located in the desert on the Suez road 30 kilometers east of Cairo, Egypt. This Army unit is...

GRANBY, Colo. (News 4) A person with a gun has reportedly driven a bulldozer with armor welded to it into several buildings in the town of Granby and heavily damaged the Town Hall, News 4 reports. The suspect fired shots, and it is unknown what his motive was. Witnesses said police were firing shots at the bulldozer, but were not able to penetrate the armor. Several buildings were heavily damaged in the main section of town, according to witnesses. Witness Teri Hertel told News 4 by phone that the driver plowed through several trees and signs on the street. The...

<p>A YEAR AGO this week, my daughter Rachel Corrie was killed in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. She was run over by an Israeli bulldozer manned by two soldiers. The Israeli government exonerated the soldiers, closed the case, and refuses to release to the US government the complete report on the military police investigation into Rachel's killing.</p>

(Editor's note: On March 16, 2003, 23-year-old Rachel Corrie died in a bulldozer accident in the Gaza town of Rafah.) Today is the first anniversary of Rachel Corrie's death. I want to thank Corrie for the explosives that flow freely from Egypt to Gaza, via the smuggling tunnels under the Gaza homes that she died defending. Perhaps it was these explosives that in the year since her martyrdom--oops, death--have been strapped around suicide bombers to blow up city buses and restaurants in Israeli cities, particularly in Jerusalem, killing men, women and schoolchildren (two of them classmates of my daughter and...

OLYMPIA - It isn't that they intended to turn the dining room into a shrine, explains Cindy Corrie, looking at a silk-screened, framed print of daughter Rachel. It's just that after Rachel Corrie died last year, as she tried to stop an Israeli bulldozer from demolishing a Palestinian home, her parents were hurled into a whirlwind of political activism. Cindy and Craig Corrie have had no time to slow down and settle in back home in Olympia. So one day when Cindy Corrie spotted a nail, doing nothing, on her dining room wall she simply chose to hang Rachel's picture...

It's no secret that China's government restricts Christians who worship outside the official centers. Over the years, Christian World News has aired reports of house churches closed and pastors arrested. Now there is startling video evidence of Chinese military police actually destroying a house church with a bulldozer. Nearly 15 years have passed since the Chinese crackdown at Tianamen Square. The images were replayed countless times on international television-they are forever burned into our memories. But now, there is more shocking video from China. Fortunately, no one was killed in this incident, but it's a glimpse of a scene rarely...

IDF troops in Hebron demolished Friday morning the home of the suicide bomber who carried out attack in Jerusalem on Wednesday. In the West Bank village of Dura, near Hebron, troops demolished the home of Tanzim militant who carries out several shooting attacks and the attack on an Ashdod banquet hall over a year ago. Avner Maimon, 49, from Netanya was killed in a shooting attack Thursday near the village of Yabed, in the northern West Bank. His body was found in a car adjacent to the village. The Magen David Adom crew that arrived at the scene pronounced him...

The Military Advocate General`s office decided on Thursday to close the investigation into the death of US pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie, reported Israel Radio. On March 16, Corrie, a 23-year-old college student was run over and killed by an IDF bulldozer. The Military Police investigating the accident concluded that the soldiers operating the bulldozer had no intention of harming Corrie. The soldiers took polygraph tests and video footage of the incident was examined.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has broadened a crackdown on foreign activists in Palestinian areas, angering human rights groups ahead of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell to push a new Middle East peace plan. Israeli troops on Friday arrested two foreign nationals in a raid on the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in the West Bank and imposed new restrictions for entry into Palestinian-ruled Gaza where Israel controls border crossings. ISM has deployed dozens of foreign volunteers in West Bank and Gaza combat zones in what it says is an effort to protect Palestinians from Israeli...

RAFAH, GAZA STRIP--At first, the doctor did not want to see me. I had come by dirt road to his small pharmacy in this dingy town along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt because I wanted to ask about the young woman from America--the one who died defending his house. He did not want to talk about her. He was tired of talking to journalists. He now required appointments to be made in advance. ... But perhaps the most remarkable thing about the ISM is that it manages to contain so many contradictions while still functioning. The group...

ELI SANDERS reports from the Gaza Strip on the death of Olympia's Rachel Corrie--Evergreen student, anarchist, activist, and accidental martyr. RAFAH, GAZA STRIP--At first, the doctor did not want to see me. I had come by dirt road to his small pharmacy in this dingy town along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt because I wanted to ask about the young woman from America--the one who died defending his house. He did not want to talk about her. He was tired of talking to journalists. He now required appointments to be made in advance. I didn't know about...

<p>COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) -- Students picketed a college newspaper and demanded it apologize for a cartoon that said an American peace activist who was run over by an Israeli bulldozer was stupid.</p> <p>The publication, The Diamondback at the University of Maryland, refused to apologize, citing the First Amendment.</p>

An anti-war protester who climbed one of the towers on the Golden Gate Bridge fell into San Francisco Bay early this afternoon.

Man bulldozes British pub after refused a drink LONDON (AP) — The owner of a historic village pub pleaded guilty today to demolishing part of the building with a bulldozer, reportedly after staff refused to serve him a drink after hours. Robert Tyrrell, 46, appeared at Oxford Crown Court accused of driving the bulldozer into the side of the 16th century North Star Inn in Steventon, 55 miles northwest of London, on New Year's Day. He admitted one charge of causing criminal damage with reckless disregard for whether the lives of pub manager Peter Allday and others were endangered. Tyrrell...

POWELL'S PIX WILL BULLDOZE IRAQI DENIALSSecretary of State Colin Powell next week will show the United Nations Security Council dramatic photographs of Iraqi agents carrying truckloads of documents and bulldozing suspected chemical weapons facilities hours before the arrival of weapons inspectors, it was revealed last night.

Bulldozer Used To Break Into BarLarry Frum, Jr., Staff Writer POSTED: 3:25 p.m. EDT June 12, 2002BALTIMORE -- Police say there was a bizarre robbery case in Essex involving a stolen bulldozer and two bottles of liquor. Neighbors who live across the street from the Hot Spot Bar And Grill can't believe they didn't hear the bulldozer rumbling down E. Homberg St. around 3 a.m. Wednesday morning. Police say thieves stole the vehicle from Liberty Oil, drove it across Route 702, down E. Homberg and slammed it into the back of the building. Bar owner Ron Krause says he just...