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Jerusalem News-785
Jerusalem News-785
30 Sivan 5768, 31 July 2008
Contents:
1. Joan Griffith: News URLs of Interest
2. Arutz-7: Bulldozer Terror: Pictures and Reactions from the Scene
3. Men Who Killed Terrorist: Policeman Was in the Way
Thank you, hero
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1. Joan Griffith: News URLs of Interest
Subject: Oil speculation based on fear of war with Iran?
The War Premium On Oil
http://www.newsweek.com/id/143659
Newsweek also has intelligent, informed writers... lol. The problem is that all
the writers are Democrats & they all hate Pres. Bush.
http://www.rferl.org/Content/Russia_legislation_youth_culture/1181223.html
Russia decides to save its depraved youth by banning Halloween and nose rings...
--
Joan
"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one." E.B. White
2. Arutz-7: Bulldozer Terror: Pictures
and Reactions from the Scene
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126709
3. Men Who Killed Terrorist: Policeman
Was in the Way
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126707
by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) M. [his full name has been forbidden for publication], the
yeshiva student off-duty soldier who killed the bulldozer-driver terrorist,
explained how he and security guard Oron Ben-Shimon stopped the murderous
rampage.
M. did not wish to speak with the media, but hours afterwards read a written
statement. He began by calling the attack a "murderous attack on our holy and
beloved land, part of the war in which we find ourselves." He then thanked all
those who, he said, had a hand in helping him act correctly: "First of all,
thanks to G-d, and secondly to the education and upbringing I received,
beginning in the Morashah Talmud Torah in Jerusalem, and then the Dimona Yeshiva
High School, and then the Yitzhar and Kiryat Arba Hesder yeshivot, and finally
to my army training, for helping me act in the way every soldier and citizen
should. I also wish to thank my brother-in-law David Shapira for serving as a
personal example [Shapira was one of the two who killed the terrorist in Merkaz
HaRav earlier this year - ed.] "
"As far as what happened," M. continued: "I was bicycling from the center of
town [westward] towards my home, when I saw a bulldozer battering a bus lying on
its side and a lot of commotion. I immediately realized that it was a terrorist
attack. I threw the bicycle to the side, and I ran towards the scene, trying to
get as close as I could to the bulldozer so that I could get on it and stop the
driver. As I got closer I tried to somehow get a weapon. When the bulldozer
stopped, a policeman climbed up, and I climbed up right behind him, screaming at
him to shoot."
"Oron Ben-Shimon, with whom I was privileged to cooperate in stopping the
terrorist, also climbed up, and he and the policeman tried to stop him with
their hands. At first I could not shoot him, because the policeman stood in
between us and the terrorist. The terrorist suddenly got up and started to drive
again, screaming out Allahu Akbar, and Oron was able to turn the steering wheel
so that the bulldozer wouldn't run over more cars. Finally, I was able to grab
Oron's gun and shoot over the heads of the policeman and Oron, three bullets to
his head. Then a Yassam policeman got on and fired again to ascertain his
death."
M. can be seen in a blue shirt, outside the bulldozer cabin, in many of the
videos of the attack being circulated.
Oron Ben-Shimon, a security guard at the nearby Kupat Cholim Leumit office, also
took part in the save. He said that when he saw the shovel of the bulldozer
mowing things down, "I ran towards it. When I got there, the bulldozer was
stopped, I got up on it - M. helped me - and we tried to stop the driver, who
looked like he was fainted on the steering wheel. But then he suddenly got up
and started the bulldozer going again. I couldn't get to my gun, and also the
policeman was in between me and the terrorist - so I punched him [the terrorist]
and that stunned him... Then M. - who really deserves all credit; of all the
people there, he was the one who responded the most correctly - quickly realized
what was happening, and took the gun from my holster and shot the terrorist
three times in the head. Then a Yassam policeman got on board, shot another
bullet, and that was it."
The journalists listening to the two heroes' accounts praised them highly, as
well as the policeman and the Yassam officer. The fact that the policeman did
not shoot and kill the terrorist, and the questions raised as a result, were not
mentioned outright.
See also:
Thank you, hero
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3563454,00.html
Extract:
This soldier, riding his bike in the face of a rampaging bulldozer,
decided that he is going to stop the terrorist. The immediate decision to get on
the bulldozer, empty handed, is what distinguishes a hero from any other person,
a civilian who takes responsibility from police officers who scratch their head
or fire shots in the air, mostly in order to calm themselves.
Yet this young man, whom all of us saw getting on the bulldozer, pulling out the
security guard's gun, and shooting the terrorist was given the run around by IDF
authorities up until recently, until they agreed to let him join the army.
For very very brief video clip of heroic deed see:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7485162.stm
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