Posted on 08/08/2002 6:44:32 AM PDT by Israel Insider
For the second time in three months, a bomb exploded underneath a fuel tanker yesterday, lightly injuring the vehicle's driver. New security procedures recommended by police to prevent such an attack have yet to be implemented. The bombing came as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon consulted with senior officials about prospects for a "mega-terror" attack that could kill hundreds of Israelis.
Truck driver Rafi Levy, 47, of Jerusalem, was lightly injured when a bomb exploded underneath his truck as it was being repaired in a Rishon Letzion garage. Levy told police that he had parked the previous night in a secured lot in Jerusalem. Police were investigating whether Levy made stops in Arab villages on his way Wednesday to Tel Aviv, where the bomb could easily have been attached to the truck.
Only 1,000 liters out of a total capacity of 15,000 liters of fuel were in the tanker at the time of the blast. Two months ago a bomb exploded under a fuel truck at the Pi Glilot petroleum and gas depot in northern Tel Aviv. Yesterday Deputy Infrastructures Minister Naomi Blumenthal (Likud) said she would set up an internal inquiry to find out why new security procedures recommended by police after the earlier attack were not being implemented.
Intelligence officials warned Sharon yesterday that terrorists were planning "mega-terror" attacks that would kill hundreds of Israelis. According to media reports, the meeting was a "regular discussion" that dealt more with possible Israeli responses than with specific efforts to prevent such attacks.
Officials said that Iraq, Iran and Syria were pushing Palestinian terrorists to perpetrate "mega-terror" attacks as soon as possible, forcing a dramatic Israeli response that would affect American preparations for an attack on Iraq, Yediot Aharonot reported.
Among the scenarios mentioned in the meeting were the bombing of high-story buildings; attacks on energy infrastructure installations (like Pi Glilot); the targeting of passenger airplanes and freight ships; biological and chemical attacks; and attacks on symbols of Israeli sovereignty, such as the Knesset.
Internal Security Minister Uzi Landau, who participated in the meeting, said that if terrorists launched a "mega-terror" attack, Israel should retaliate with a "mega-response." Landau emphasized that Israel must work to prevent attacks in advance, and signal to the Palestinians that it would not be to their advantage to launch such attacks.
Israeli Police Commissioner Shlomo Aharonishky said that Israel is marching towards a "mega-terror" attack. Terrorists "are constantly searching for ways to raise the ante? Every terror attack today becomes the basis for the next attack," he told Army Radio.
"The Palestinians reached the conclusion that suicide bombing attacks of the type we're familiar with don't advance their interests, and they therefore must go for attacks that will cause hundreds of casualties," one security source told Yediot Aharonot.
Palestinian officials said they were aware Hamas was planning "mega-terror" attacks, but there was nothing they could do to stop this, the paper added. The officials said that Iran was pressuring the terrorists to perpetrate an attack in the near future.
Three months ago, security forces uncovered a plan by Peoples Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists to drive an explosives-laden truck to the Azrieli Towers in Tel Aviv. The cell's leader was killed, and its other members were arrested.
The mega-response sounds good. It's what's been needed for some time now.
no. only total victory over the vanquished will solve anything. somebody has to win and somebody has to lose for there to be lasting peace.
israel can take care of itself. we need to beluga on down to baghdad toot suite.
Unless it is nipped in its bud!
The recent history of this mess certainly bears out what you say. A bettin' man would bet that this thing will just continue to muddle along in death and destruction.
RAZE those offensive structures on Temple Mount for starters.
Then a second Nuclear raid on Entebbe, only turn LEFT at the Initial Point...and overfly The Kaaba!
Mop up Medina on the way back!
IMO, Israel is protected as the 51st state that it fundamentally is.
I have to believe Bush has a plan in the works to rid the Earth of Muslim destruction while preserving Israel.
If not, we're all in serious jeopardy.
Actually, it could be avoided. Deport all the arabs and Palestinians from Jewish soil and go back to the biblical adage that Israel is a JEWISH state. No more arabs, no more problems. It is that simple. Too bad the Jews who run Israel are of the politically correct crowd.
New York Times, Friday, August 10, 1945
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The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in the first attack to avoid, in so far as possible, the killing of civilians. But that attack is only a warning of things to come. If Japan does not surrender, bombs will have to be dropped on her war industries and, unfortunately, thousands of civilian lives will be lost. I urge Japanese civilians to leave industrial cities immediately and save themselves from destruction.
I realize the tragic significance of the atomic bomb.
Its production and its use were not lightly undertaken by this government. But we knew that our enemies were on the search for it. We know now how close they were to finding it. And we knew the disaster which would come to this nation, and to all peaceful nations, to all civilizations, if they had found it first.
That is why we felt compelled to undertake the long and uncertain and costly labor of discovery and production.
We won the race of discovery against the Germans.
Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.
We shall continue to use it until we completely destroy Japan's power to make war. Only a Japanese surrender will stop us.
The atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world. That is why Great Britain, Canada and the United States, who have the secret of its production, do not intend to reveal that secret until means have been found to control the bomb so as to protect ourselves and the rest of the world from the danger of total destruction.
This is not the usual bluff or bluster. I'm dead serious:
Don't destroy the mosque up there, but take over the Temple Mount for a few days, remove the gold from the dome (don't know if the that's physically doable) and sell it for victim reparations. Return the Haram al Shariff (sp?) to the Muslim religious authority otherwise fully intact.
There is a small chance this might actually cause the Pallies to stop and think. Their own suffering has not been a sufficient indication to them of the abject failure of their terrorism. Maybe this stark visual indication would do it.
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