Dimona Attack
Today there was a suicide attack in the city where Israel’s nuclear plant is. They didn’t attack the plant itself, and instead hit a cafe in the town built around the plant. But that’s not important. What’s important is the message this is meant to send.
Anyone with eyes knows that a huge component of terrorism is the psychological aspect. If their attacks weren’t meant to deliver a psychological blow, and send a message, Islamic fanatics would just directly attack their targets. But they are too cowardly to attack their enemies directly, and seem to revel in the psychological part of what they do. Instead of attacking soldiers, they attack their families and loved ones. Instead of attacking behind concrete and metal cover, they use innocent humans as cover. Instead of admitting what they are, and what they do, they act as brutal and as disgusting as they can, and they when they get hit back for it and suffer the consequences they pretend they are victims and cry and make a big deal about how they are “oppressed.”
This latest attack was meant to send a message. They message is that they can reach the place where Israel’s nuclear facility is, and carry off effective attacks there, and that they are interested in it as a target.
This one isn’t going to get a lot of press in the West, because since Bush’s latest “peace initiative” the media seems to have been ignoring every terrorist attack the palestinians do. You’ll hear about it a little, but not much. Even the Israeli government is downplaying this one. Certain parties seem to think that by ignoring what terrorists do it takes away from the effectiveness of what they were trying to accomplish, and blunts their message, frustrating them. But I disagree. I think people need to know what these animals are doing. It should be put right there for all to see. Face reality. Some here seem to think we are weak and the truth of reality will make us fear them and will make the average American want surrender, and hurt our economy, making us not want to travel or buy anything or participate in the stock market. I disagree. I have faith that being honest with Americans will allow them to make the choice themselves, and I have faith we won’t take their “messages” lying down.
Anyway, here is the story. Decide for yourself whether you want to ignore it and pretend you don’t hear them. That usually doesn’t stop or frustrate them. It only makes them repeat their “messages” again louder, until they are heard, as with their repeat attacks on the World Trade Center. They have communicated what they intend to do. How are we going to answer them?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327986,00.html
Homicide Bomb Rocks Southern Israel, Killing 3
Monday, February 04, 2008
DIMONA, Israel — A homicide bomber on Monday blew himself up in the southern town that houses Israel’s secretive nuclear reactor, killing an Israeli woman and wounding seven other people, Israeli authorities said. Police said they killed a second attacker before he had a chance to detonate his explosives belt.
It was the first homicide attack in Israel in a year, and officials were investigating whether the attacker came in through Egypt after Palestinian militants breached the Gaza-Egypt border last month.
An offshoot of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement claimed responsibility, complicating recently renewed peace efforts. The attackers, they said, came from the West Bank, though the claim could not immediately be verified.
Hours after the homicide bombing, Israeli aircraft struck a car in the northern Gaza Strip, killing a top wanted man.
Israeli government officials dismissed the notion that the heavily guarded Dimona nuclear reactor was the homicide attackers’ target. The explosion took place in a shopping area about 6 miles from the reactor site.
“We heard a large explosion and people started to run. I saw pieces of flesh flying in the air,” a witness identified only by her first name, Revital, told Army Radio.
Ambulances and a large contingent of soldiers, rescue workers and police rushed to the scene of the bombing, the first in the working class town of 37,000.
Police said one attacker managed to detonate his explosives belt, but the second was shot dead by police before he could set off his bomb. A police bomb squad was on the scene defusing the explosives.
Dr. Baruch Mandelzweig said he was at his clinic nearby when he heard the blast. He and his nurses rushed out to the street to see what had happened, and saw body parts “strewn around everywhere.”
They spotted a critically injured man whose head was moving, and began to treat him before realizing he was the second attacker.
“We saw an explosive belt,” he said. “We ran away,” and later we heard he had been shot, Mandelzweig said.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Arye Mekel said, “the terror organizations have shown again who they are and what they are.”
“Their goal was and continues to be to kill Israeli citizens in their homes and their schools and in their shopping centers,” he added. “Israel will continue to fight against this murderous terror.”
Shortly after the attack, Israeli aircraft killed a senior commander in the Hamas-affiliated Popular Resistance Committees in the Gaza Strip, the group said. The military confirmed an attack against a PRC activist in Beit Lahiya, a town Palestinian militants frequently use to fire rockets into southern Israel.
At Sunday’s Cabinet meeting, Israeli security chiefs warned that because of the anarchy on the Gaza-Egypt frontier, Palestinian militants might enter Israel through Gaza’s Sinai desert to attack a civilian Israeli target, a government official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the Cabinet meeting was closed.
Southern Israel has been on alert against militant attacks since the Gaza Strip’s Islamic Hamas rulers breached the border with Egypt on Jan. 23. Egypt managed to reseal the border only on Sunday.
The breach made Israel’s Negev desert, where Dimona is located, more vulnerable to penetration by Palestinian militants who could enter through Egypt’s porous border. Dimona is about 40 miles northeast of Egypt.
In an e-mail to The Associated Press, the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, a Fatah offshoot, said it sent attackers from the West Bank town of Ramallah, Abbas’ base, to carry out the “heroic martyrdom bombing in Dimona.”
The faction said it carried out the attack with the small Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Although Abbas’ government has claimed to have dismantled Al Aqsa forces in the West Bank, a group spokesman, Abu Fouad, said Monday that “nobody has given up weapons.”
The bombing came at a critical juncture. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators relaunched peace talks after a seven-year break just two months ago, and Israel has made it clear it won’t implement any accord until militant groups in the West Bank and Hamas-ruled Gaza are disarmed.
Abbas’ office denounced the attack. But it denied Al Aqsa was involved and linked the bombing to an Israeli raid in the West Bank that killed two Islamic Jihad militants before dawn Monday.
“The Palestinian Authority expresses its full condemnation of the Israeli operation in the northern West Bank and it condemns the attack in the commercial center in the city of Dimona, which targeted Israeli civilians,” his office said.
“Fatah has confirmed that the Al Aqsa Brigades has nothing to do with this attack,” it added, saying that a “well known group opposed to the peace process” was responsible. It did not elaborate.
In the southern Gaza town of Rafah, gunmen fired their weapons into the air to celebrate the bombing.
Hamas spokesman Ayman Taha said he did not know whether his group was involved, but praised the attack. He also rejected suggestions that the bombing would hurt Hamas’ chances of reopening the border with Egypt.
“The suicide bombings were there before the closures and the resistance used every opportunity to make these glorious acts,” he said. “They show the Palestinians can respond to the enemy and their crimes.”
The previous homicide bombing in Israel occurred on Jan. 29, 2007, when a Palestinian attacker entered Israel from Egypt, killing three Israelis at a bakery in the southern Israeli city of Eilat.
After Israeli-Palestinian peace talks broke down in 2000, Palestinian militants killed hundreds of people in dozens of homicide bombings.
Dimona is home to Israel’s nuclear research center, and it is widely believed that atomic weapons were developed at the plant. Israel neither admits nor denies having nuclear arms.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,328030,00.html
Doctor Discovers Explosive Belt While Treating Bombing ‘Victim’
Monday, February 04, 2008
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JERUSALEM — Dr. Baruch Mandeltzwieg knelt down and ripped open the jacket of a critically wounded man from Monday’s homicide bombing in Dimona to begin emergency treatment. But instead of finding gushing blood, he was struck by another sight — an explosive belt.
The wounded man turned out to be a would-be suicide bomber who was knocked out by the force of the initial blast before he was able to detonate his own explosive belt.
“His head was moving. He was a patient who could be treated,” Mandeltzwieg told Israel’s Army radio. “We started to treat him and then we saw an explosive belt … I managed to see a small gas canister and small plastic bags attached to his body.”
Mandeltzwieg, who had rushed to the scene along with nurses from a nearby medical clinic, ran away as the second bomber began waving his arms. An Israeli policeman then shot the bomber at point blank range and killed him, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
Mandeltzwieg said there was no dilemma to treat the man.
“He was on the ground and was bleeding from his head. I thought he had a chance to live,” he said. “I could have treated him, it didn’t say on his forehead that he was a bomber.”
And he said there was no dilemma to retreat when he discovered the explosive belt and his life was in danger.
“It was clear that he was a terrorist,” he said.
Published by CoyoteDKM on February 4th, 2008 | Filed under War Commentary, War News
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