eadly terrorist bombing recounted in former professor's trial
an Associated Press report 08/15/05
http://www.abcactionnews.com/stories/2005/08/050815alarian.shtml
TAMPA - Gruesome eyewitness testimony about a 1995 double suicide
bombing in Israel took center stage Monday in the federal trial of a former
Tampa college professor accused of being a key player in the notorious
Palestinian terrorist group that claimed responsibility.
An Israeli police officer who witnessed the blasts testified that he
heard an explosion among a crowd of people waiting for buses at Beit Lid
Junction, then heard another one shortly afterward that came as
rescuers were trying to help victims.
Yuval Avargil, an intelligence officer with the Israeli national
police, described a horrific scene, in which twisted bodies lay in puddles of
blood and the sky rained body parts at the busy junction between Tel
Aviv and Haifa.
"I opened my eyes, I heard something rolling near me, I saw a head of a
soldier with his eyes open on the side," he said.
Prosecutors say that Sami Al-Arian, a former University of South
Florida professor, and three other defendants on trial raised money and
supported the deadly mission of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist
group blamed for more than 100 deaths, including 22 at Beit Lid on Jan.
22, 1995.
Last week an FBI agent testified that less than three weeks after the
Beit Lid bombing, Al-Arian, in a letter to a Kuwaiti legislator,
referred to it as "the latest operation, carried out by the two mujahideen
(holy warriors) who were martyred for the sake of God." Prosecutors say
the letter sought money for the families of the suicide bombers.
Before and during Avargil's testimony, defense attorneys objected on
grounds that its graphic nature would be inflammatory and prejudicial.
The judge allowed some graphic testimony from Avargil, but ruled that the
prosecution should limit graphic descriptions from other witnesses.
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On radio, KXNT from Las Vegas, NV at 4 pm.
Why would anyone steal dozens of 2 way radios?
No, I won't be calling the news dept to tell them why they might have been stolen, from a Las Vegas school.
Another report, they were stolen from the school busses.
72 stolen between Friday and today.
Last year 100 were stolen and in 2000 300 were stolen.
That is a lot of 2 way communication. or bomb timers?