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New details were revealed on Sunday about the miracle that occurred at the Bat Yam bus terminus explosions last Thursday. United Hatzalah volunteers and security forces escaped death when they left the scene of the explosion just minutes before the third bomb exploded. Shmuel Malka, director of United Hatzalah in Bat Yam, said to Kol Barama Radio that he arrived with a team of volunteers at the scene of the first explosion on Menachem Begin Street within minutes. While they were scanning the buses at the terminal, another explosion was heard in the nearby parking lot. The team went to...

Obama amputates our nuclear arms By: Charles Krauthammer ...snippet...Under President Obama’s new policy, however, if the state that has just attacked us with biological or chemical weapons is “in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” explained Gates, then “the U.S. pledges not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against it.” Imagine the scenario: Hundreds of thousands are lying dead in the streets of Boston after a massive anthrax or nerve gas attack. The president immediately calls in the lawyers to determine whether the attacking state is in compliance with the NPT. If it turns out that the attacker...

Report: Cafe bomber confesses to bus bombing Yesterday ~ Chris ~ Link ~ Comments (13) According to Chinese media reports, Kunming police have stated that the man involved in yesterday's bombing at Salvador's Coffee House confessed to involvement in the unsolved July bus bombings shortly before dying. Kunming police told the Yunnan Info Daily that yesterday's blast was not due to a natural gas canister explosion - as had been reported earlier by some Chinese media - but rather ammonium nitrate, the same compound which was reportedly used in the bus bombings this summer. Police said the ammonium nitrate had...

- Israel-style suicide bus bombings are headed to New York. That’s the word of Metropolitan Transportation Authority security chief Louis Anemone and Port Authority police chief Joseph Morris who made their assessments after a five-day trip to Israel. “This stuff is going to be imported over here,” Mr. Anemone said. “It already has, and I want people to sit up and take notice.” The two chiefs had gone to Israel to learn about that country’s counter-terrorism programs. Their comments were originally reported in the Jerusalem Post. The MTA declined to make Mr. Anemone available for further discussion and the Port...