***PHOTOS*** Jerusalem homicide bomb attack

Yahoo! ^ | June 18, 2002 | Reuters/AP

[Alouette]

Black body bags lie next to an Israeli bus as security officers and medics search for clues near the neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem, June 18, 2002. A suspected Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up, killing 17 people and wounding many others. Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters

Black plastic bags containing dead civilians lie next to an Israeli bus as security officers and medics search for clues around bus number 32 in Jerusalem's Pat junction near the neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem June 18, 2002. A suspected Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up killing at least 17 people and wounding many others. The blast was so powerful it ripped through the front of the bus and turned it into a mound of twisted wreckage. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis REUTERS

Police and religious volunteers work near a row of dead in body bags and a bombed bus in Jerusalem Tuesday June 18, 2002. A suicide bomber blew up on a crowded city bus in Jerusalem during morning rush hour Tuesday, killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 40 police said. According to witnesses, many school students were on the bus. (AP Photo/ZOOM 77)

An Israeli policeman stands next to a row of dead in body bags next to a bombed bus in the background at the site of the suicide bombing in Jerusalem Tuesday June 18, 2002. A suicide bomber blew up on a crowded city bus in Jerusalem during morning rush hour Tuesday, killing at least 19, people and wounding more than 40 police said. According to witnesses, many school students were on the bus. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)

Israeli Ultra Orthodox forensic volunteers work next to two dead bodies vicitms of the explosion inside a bombed bus at the site of the suicide bombing in Jerusalem Tuesday June 18, 2002. A suicide bomber blew up on a crowded city bus in Jerusalem during morning rush hour Tuesday, killing at least 19, people and wounding more than 40 police said. According to witnesses, many school students were on the bus. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)

Israeli security officers and medics search the wreckage of bus number 32 in Jerusalem's Pat junction near the neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem, June 18, 2002. A suspected Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up killing 17 people and wounding many others. The blast was so powerful it ripped through the front of the bus and turned it into a mound of twisted wreckage. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen

Israeli security officers and medics search around the bus number 32 in Jerusalem's Pat junction, near the neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem, June 18, 2002. A suspected Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up killing 17 people and wounding many others. The blast was so powerful it ripped through the front of the bus and turned it into a mound of twisted wreckage. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen

The hand of a body with identification police tag number 10, is seen after the 17 bodies of the victims of Monday's suicide attack were placed in black plastic bags next to bus number 32 in Jerusalem's Pat junction near the neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem June 18, 2002. A suspected Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up killing 17 people and wounding many others. The blast was so powerful it ripped through the front of the bus and turned it into a mound of twisted wreckage. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

Israeli border police walk with police dogs near a bombed bus in Jerusalem Tuesday June 18, 2002. A suicide bomber blew up on a crowded city bus in Jerusalem during morning rush hour Tuesday, killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 40. According to witnesses, many school students were on the bus. (AP Photo/ZOOM 77)

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon looks at black plastic bags containing dead civilians next to an Israeli bus in Jerusalem's Pat junction near the neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem, June 18, 2002. A suspected Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up killing 17 people and wounding many others. The blast was so powerful it ripped through the front of the bus and turned it into a mound of twisted wreckage. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

The feet of an unidentified victim of Monday's suicide attack are seen after the 17 bodies of the victims were placed in black plastic bags next to bus number 32 in Jerusalem's Pat junction near the neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem June 18, 2002. A suspected Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up killing 17 people and wounding many others. The blast was so powerful it ripped through the front of the bus and turned it into a mount of twisted wreckage. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

Israeli bomb experts search bus number 32 in Jerusalem's Pat junction near the neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem June 18, 2002. A suspected Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up killing 17 people and wounding many others. The blast was so powerful it ripped through the front of the bus and turned it into a mount of twisted wreckage. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen

An Israeli bomb expert searches bus number 32 in Jerusalem's Pat junction near the neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem June 18, 2002. A suspected Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up killing 17 people and wounding many others. The blast was so powerful it ripped through the front of the bus and turned it into a mount of twisted wreckage. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen

Israeli medics remove a dead person from bus number 32 in Jerusalem's Pat junction near the neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem June 18, 2002. A suspected Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up killing 17 people and wounding many others. The blast was so powerful it ripped through the front of the bus and turned it into a mount of twisted wreckage. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

Israeli women cry and run in panic as they try to find their relatives at Jerusalem's Pat junction near the neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem June 18, 2002. A suspected Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up killing 17 people and wounding many others. The blast was so powerful it ripped through the front of the bus and turned it into a mount of twisted wreckage. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

Black plastic bags containing dead civilians lie next to an Israeli bus as security officers and medics search for clues in and around bus number 32 in Jerusalem's Pat junction near the neighborhood of Gilo in Jerusalem June 18, 2002. A suspected Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up killing 17 people and wounding many others. The blast was so powerful it ripped through the front of the bus and turned it into a mount of twisted wreckage. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

Forensic volunteers place a body on a stretcher at the site where a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a bus near the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo, Tuesday June 18, 2002. At least 19 people were killed and more than 40 wounded. Many school students were on the bus, witnesses said.(AP Photo/Enric Marti)

Police and religious volunteers work around a bombed bus in Jerusalem Tuesday June 18, 2002. A suicide bomber blew up on the crowded city bus in Jerusalem during morning rush hour Tuesday, killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 40. According to witnesses, many school students were on the bus. (AP Photo/ZOOM 77)

Police and religious volunteers work near a row of dead in body bags and a bombed bus in Jerusalem Tuesday June 18, 2002. A suicide bomber blew up on the crowded city bus in Jerusalem during morning rush hour Tuesday, killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 40. According to witnesses, many school students were on the bus. (AP Photo/ZOOM 77)

A picture of a victim along with her information sheet lies next to a body identified as number 5 amongst a row of dead in body bags next to a bombed bus at the site of the suicide bombing in Jerusalem Tuesday June 18, 2002. A suicide bomber blew up on a crowded city bus in Jerusalem during morning rush hour Tuesday, killing at least 19, people and wounding more than 40. According to witnesses, many school students were on the bus. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)

[Alouette]

No comment necessary.

[goldstategop]

Pictures here are worth 1,000 words.

[TheOtherOne]

Tragic. I am at a loss.

[RaceBannon]

It is a sick religion that treaches people to kill innocents to get to heaven. It is a murder cult.

[goldstategop]

But but but... Islam is a religion of peace!!!

[AppyPappy]

Just remember. Right now, Palestinians are celebrating and telling the mother of the bomber that her child is a hero. They are now making a replica of the bomber's face to go on a "necklace of martyrs". A picture of the bomber is going up in Palestinian homes.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Unreal. So if this happens in America and the attacker and his accomplices survive and are held incommunicado, are they being stripped of their rights? This is no worse than Sept 11th.

When a person attacks a Nation as here (and the attackers may not be citizens of the same country they are attacking), they forfeit those rights.

I pinged you because I would like your thoughts on this. Maybe the pics of 9-11 aren't fresh enough.

[gatorgriz]

Let Israel take the gloves off and teach these heathens a major, major lesson... If it's war they want I say let the Israelis give them war, in spades...

[dennisw]

There will be an answer by Israel and it won't be pleasant for the Pallie murderers. Notice how the people are gone who used to complain about too many dead Pals and not enough dead Jews in this intifada. These days they have a new set of lies and excuses for Islamic barbarism.

[dennisw]

There will be an answer by Israel and it won't be pleasant for the Pallie murderers. Notice how the people are gone who used to complain about too many dead Pals and not enough dead Jews in this intifada. These days they have a new set of lies and excuses for Islamic barbarism.

[smith288]

And Ted Turner called Israel terrorists.... I want to go against my faith and better judgement and wish all these Palestinians to fall into the damn ocean.

[goldstategop]

Of course I know that my friend. And its ghoulish. I was mocking what passes for the conventional wisdom. Methinks if only President Bush and wise man Colon Bowell would stop behaving like the characters in the Three Blind Men trying to figure out what an elephant was and open their eyes and LOOK. The Middle East is not a dream world called Vanilla Sky . Real people are being blown up and maimed and murdered.

[Tolik]

I'm puzzled by Israeli patience and show of restrain after all this.

And the killers will be rewarded with a State. Good lesson: bring on the terror, it works.

Too sad.

[backhoe]

People who commit such deeds cannot be negotiated with- you have to hammer and hector and pursue and pound them until they will never, ever even dream of doing such things again.

The Oslo Accords were a photo-op fraud from the get-go. This is their evil fruit.

[tomkat]

Just remember.
Right now, Palestinians are celebrating and telling the mother of the bomber that her child is a hero.
They are now making a replica of the bomber's face to go on a "necklace of martyrs".
A picture of the bomber is going up in Palestinian homes.

Quote of the Day !

[RedBloodedAmerican]

[Types_with_Fist]

Awesome photos. It's just unbelievable to me that this continues to be put up with by the "civilized" world - justified even! I've never advocated the extermination of anything. But, it seems clear to me that it's either these murdering dogs or us. I choose us.

[sheik yerbouty]

Push the jihadists beyond the Jordan Riverm and in Gaza, into the sea. They can go to hell or the Hejaz!

[Alouette]

I was listening to the radio this morning driving in to work. The ABC correspondent in Jerusalem was talking to the local news host, and was reciting the usual lame excuse: "Israel will respond, and the Palestinians will become more desperate, and this will generate more attacks, cycle of violence, blah blah blah.." The local news host broke in with: "You know, I'm sick of hearing about how desperate and hopeless these people are. They're just evil!"