What's the common feature between the following stories?
'People were burned alive inside my bus'
DANIEL BEN-TAL
Oct. 22, 2002
For the staff of Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera, Monday night's scene was ominously familiar. As most of the victims of the bombing on the Wadi Ara road were rushed in, teams of doctors and nurses dealt with the wounded, while worried families and friends clamored for information.
"Unfortunately, the hospital is used to dealing with such incidents, and we were ready for both the wounded and trauma victims," said Anat Baram, the hospital's spokeswoman.
On the third floor, Yiftah Mental, 19, of Moshav Maor, reflected on his near brush with death. "My mother dropped me off at the [Karkur] junction and I saw the bus approaching, so I ran to the stop. I had one foot on the step of the bus when the explosion threw me at least five meters in the air. My backpack buffered my fall it probably saved me from serious injury.
"Then I saw my mother running toward me, shouting 'Yiftah, Yiftah.' She was in greater shock than me. I took her aside, because she shouldn't see such things people were screaming, trying to jump out of the bus's windows as it burned. All around us was hysteria."
Mental, who was hospitalized with burns to his arms, back, and foot, sported a T-shirt saying "It won't happen to me." He remains adamant in his desire to join an elite commando unit upon his induction into the IDF next month. "Life goes on and I'll have to put this behind me."
"The only thought I had was that I've lost my child," said his mother, Ruth. "There is no way to prepare for something like this. At least now I'll worry less when he's in the army, because I've experienced that fear once."
"I cannot forget what I saw today people were burned alive inside my bus," said driver Haim Avraham, who escaped with light wounds.
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jpost.com
Police Probe New Shooting in Washington Area
VOA News
22 Oct 2002, 11:34 UTC
Police are investigating a shooting in a Maryland suburb of Washington. It was not immediately clear if the shooting is related to a string of sniper attacks that have terrorized the area since early this month.
The shooting occurred during the early Tuesday morning rush hour in Montgomery County, where several sniper attacks have taken place.
Details of the latest attack are sketchy, but local news reports say the victim was a man who was shot in the chest as he was getting on or off a commuter bus. The reports say the victim was taken by helicopter to an area hospital.
Police have responded by shutting down traffic in the area as they have after previous sniper shootings.
voanews.com
Doesn't take a lieutenant Columbo to find it out, huh? Both terrorist attacks were aimed at a BUS....
Told you so: the Israeli hitwomen are playing tit-for-tat terrorism in the US following along with what's going on in Israel --but kikey-whipped America doesn't want to face the ugly truth...
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