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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sojourner Smith who wrote (5808)	3/5/2003 9:15:21 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 32591

Mar. 5, 2003 - 10 dead, 30 wounded in Haifa bus suicide blast By THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF Advertisement A suicide bombing ripped apart an Egged bus in the northern coastal city of Haifa on Wednesday killing 10 people and wounding about 30, police and rescue officials said. Ambulances raced to the scene and rushed the wounded to three local hospitals, Rambam, Carmel and Bnai Tzion. The blast occurred at about 2 p.m. local time on Moriyah Street, as the bus was pulling out of a station, headed from Haifa's Bat Galim neighborhood toward the University of Haifa. A school is located just a block away from where the explosion occurred. Witnesses said there were a large number of bodies still in and around the bus. Northern police commander Ya'akov Borovsky said the bombing was a terror attack perpetrated by a suicide bomber. The authorities were still investigating whether the bomber had gotten on the bus as it stopped on Moriyah Street or had blown himself up right near the vehicle. "Unfortunately this is a very bad attack," Borovsky told reporters, as the attack came when the bus was packed with commuters. "The bus is completely ruined, it was a very powerful blast." Officials confirmed eight people were killed, but media reports said at least 11 were dead and 30 wounded. Witnesses said the roof of the bus was blown off and that the bus caught fire, leaving it in charred remains. An eyewitness said there were terrible scenes of body parts strewn across the street and bodies still in the wreckage of the bus. Residents said that many windows of buildings nearby were shattered. It was the first mass terror attack in Israel since a twin suicide bombing killed more than 20 at the old Tel Aviv central bus station on January 5. David Baker, an official in the Prime Minister's office said, "The Haifa attack was another brutal assault against innocent Israeli civilians. Israel will continue to rage a relentless and merciless war against this type of terror and those were perpetrate it and do whatever is necessary to protect its citizens".