Posted on 11/01/2004 7:23:36 AM PST by yonif
A 16-year-old suicide terrorist Monday morning murdered two women and one man while injuring more than 30 others when he detonated his charge in Tel Aviv’s crowded Carmel market.
The terrorist Amar Alfar, 18, from the Askar refugee camp in Shechem, was killed in the blast around 11:20 AM near a Kosher cheese store.
Tel Aviv hospitals reported that four people were in serious condition as a result of the blast, and the rest were moderately and lightly wounded.
The police closed off several streets in the area and on the main Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway in a search for the driver of the terrorist.
A Carmel market vegetable stand owner Yair Levy said: “After the blast, we left our stands and ran towards the scene of the attack to see how we could help. Some people had gone into shock, and the first thing we did was evacuate them from the area in case another blast was to go off. We do not fear coming to work here. Life must continue. We have no complaints against the police or their work.”
One of the injured was a 36-year-old market employee named Dror. He said he was “10 meters away from the suicide terrorist. He was at a cheese booth right across from my meat stand. It was the hour that the market is packed with people. I heard the blast, and an object hit me. I couldn’t identify exactly what hit me, because pieces of the booth flew in all directions.”
Although he complained of “a terribly loud ring in my ears and slight pain in my back,” Dror vowed to return to work at the market. Both Arabs and Jews work side by side in the Carmel vegetable market.
The terrorist targeted the southern part of the market near the intersection of Rambam and HaCarmel streets. Based on the damages in the vicinity, eye-witnesses are saying that the explosive device was not a medium-sized one. A Bomb Squad expert said that the crowded and closed-in nature of the market vicinity intensified the effect of the explosion.
The suicide bomber apparently departed for the attack from Shechem, 30 miles northeast of Tel Aviv. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack. The PFLP is considered a secular Arab gang and not an Islamic group. At the time of its founding in the early 1960’s by George Habash, many Christian Arabs were part of the PFLP. Today, however, few non-Moslems belong.
Security forces receive every day both general and specific warning of terrorist attacks and have prevented most of them. As of today, they reported 44 warnings of planned attacks but none of them singled out Tel Aviv.
At least three suicide bombers have been nabbed this week, most of them in the Shechem and Jenin area. It also was revealed Monday that three Arabs from the “Triangle” area between Hadera and Kfar Saba were remanded in court after having planned to blow up a train near Netanya.
The future if America if John Kerry is elected...
Coming to a town near you if John Kerry is elected POTUS.
I know it is a sad commentary when I found myself grateful that the young monster was able to kill only 3, so far.
I know it is a sad commentary when I found myself disapointed that the photo of the young monster was a 'before' shot.
Good pictures. The picture of the terrrorist is especially telling. It shows that this 'product' of evil being mass produced in their schools is not some emaciated, downtrodden, oppressed soul. He is like the rest, full of evil and ready to murder with glee.
"I know it is a sad commentary when I found myself disapointed that the photo of the young monster was a 'before' shot."
The "after" picture is pretty telling, too. Blew the guy's head clean off! The rest of him must be all over those apples (or whatever fruit it is).
Please post it. I never tire of seeing dead terrorists.
I'm assuming it's the 4th from the bottom picture. The overhead shot of the officer holding something and looking down at the street. Maybe I'm wrong...I've seen similar pictures of other bombers, and the head is usually laying off a little distance from the rest.
So are his other "parts". A friend of mine saw the bombers parts hanging on a car grill down the street once.
No wonder the 72 virgins are virgins forever...
---Maybe I'm wrong...I've seen similar pictures of other bombers, and the head is usually laying off a little distance from the rest.---
They should send his head to Arafat in Paris.
Kerry and his nutzo nazi wife must be enjoying this.
Yes indeed and it's a shame that the libs can't see that this could be our future.
Yeah I hear this loser according to Debka he was high school dropout
HELLO I am glad that SOB is dead I wish IDF too smackdown on this guy before he did it
Sending prayers... keep your head up.
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