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To: Mani1 who wrote (2673)	8/10/2001 11:37:58 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Manhunt to stop second attack by Theodore Levite in Tel Aviv Israeli police launched a fullscale manhunt today in a bid to track down a suicide bomber they fear is about to mount a second murderous attack on civilians in Jerusalem. The move came after two militant Palestinian organisations claimed responsibility for the bombing of a pizza restaurant in the city yesterday which killed 18, including two babies. Hamas issued a statement saying the attack had been carried out by a 23-year-old volunteer, Izz al-Din al-Masri, from a village near Jenin on the West Bank. But Islamic Jihad, a less powerful rival to Hamas's military wing, also issued a statement saying the bomber had been one of its own members, Hussein Omar Abu Amsha, also 23. Israeli security forces immediately suspected that both organisations had sent suicide bombers to Jerusalem and that when news of the pizza restaurant attack broke, each assumed it had been carried out by their own man. This meant that one bomber was still out there. The bomb detonated in the crowded Sbarro restaurant in the heart of Jerusalem's shopping district blew the man who had been carrying it to pieces. Positive identification may prove impossible in the short term. The hunt was also complicated by the fact that Islamic Jihad initially named the bomber as Hussein Omar Abu Naaseh, but then withdrew his name when his family said he was alive. As the search for the second bomber went on, Israel used its F-16 warplanes against Palestinian targets for the first time since May. A police station in Ramallah was destroyed by two rockets, but there were no reports of casualties. After the Jerusalem bombing Palestinians abandoned locations likely to be targeted by Israel in retaliation. A statement from the Israeli military claimed the air strike followed "involvement of Palestinian policemen in terrorist activity". After a special session of the security cabinet that stretched into the early hours, Secretary Gideon Saar said the police and military operations were "intended to motivate the Palestinian Authority to carry out its commitments to fight against terror, to fight against violence, and honour the agreements it signed". Israeli security forces also moved against the Palestinian Authority headquarters in East Jerusalem. Orient House, the municipal centre of the city's Arab quarter, was closed down by police and locked up. Seven officials were arrested. "We are in a war," Jerusalem's Mayor Ehud Olmert said after the blast at Sbarro, part of a US-based chain. "We will act together with the government of Israel to reach every one of those who is responsible for terror, to hit them and kill them." Most of the dead were Israelis, but police said American Judith Greenbaum, from New Jersey, and Brazilian Giora Balash were among those killed. Hanna Tova Nachemberg, 31, of Riverdale, New York, was critically wounded with shrapnel in her chest, according to Rabbi Avi Weiss of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. The rabbi said Ms Nachemberg was accompanying family members who belong to the group of visiting American Jews expressing solidarity with Israel. US President George W Bush said Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat "must condemn this horrific terrorist attack and act now to arrest and bring to justice those responsible". Yasser Arafat later issued a statement condemning the murder of all civilians and calling for dialogue to end the violence which has claimed at least 560 Palestinian lives and more than 150 on the Israeli side since last September. But the restaurant carnage left Israelis in no mood for compromise. thisislondon.com