ISRAEL - Aug 28 - Suicide Bomber Attacks Bus Station.

From: APS Diplomat Recorder | Date: September 3, 2005 | Copyright information

A suicide bomber blows himself up at a busy bus station in Beersheba, southern Israel, seriously wounding two security guards who chased him and foils a potentially much deadlier attack. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the first bombing since Israel last week completed the evacuation of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank. The last such attack in Israel was on July 12, when a bomber killed five people at a coastal shopping mall. Israeli commandos hunting the perpetrators of that attack last week killed five men in the West Bank, prompting ...

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