| July 2, 2008 An Israeli Arab deliberately plowed an enormous construction vehicle into cars, buses and pedestrians on a busy street Wednesday, crushing and killing at least three people and wounding at least 45 before he was shot dead by security officers. The terrorist (Duwait)was a convicted rapist and felon,a resident of the East Jerusalem Arab village Sur Baher, a relative of the terrorist who killed young yeshiva students in Mercaz Harav, he climbed unto a huge tractor and with astonishing barbarism plowed down a major Jerusalem thoroughfare, sowing unimaginable destruction. As journalist Tom Gross put it: "Terrorists purposely target civilians, and this terrorist was no different. He chose his victims carefullyHe used the bulldozer to plow into two public buses carrying passengers, including many women and children which he could clearly see through the buses' large glass windows. One of the buses was completely overturned, the other crashed. He then crushed a number of cars with their drivers still in them, and targeted several pedestrians chasing them down and running them over. A half-dozen cars were flattened and others were overturned by his Caterpillar vehicle as panic spread throughout the center of Israel's capital. Traffic was halted, and hundreds of people fled through the streets as medics treated the wounded. One car was dragged several meters by the bulldozer. A baby was pulled out by a passerby before the vehicle was crushed, with the child's mother ... |
