Yasser Arafat said his Palestinian leadership was opposed to attacks against Palestinian and Israeli civilians

Yasser Arafat said his Palestinian leadership was “opposed to attacks against Palestinian and Israeli civilians”.. It was pretty difficult watching people who we couldn’t help any more.” Ingrid Aharoni said: “One soldier in the back of the bus jumped from the window. Two people, I don’t know if they were alive or not, their bodies burnt up in the fire.”Israel is almost certain to respond butthe US has been urging restraint while the White House lobbies Arab support for war against Iraq. The blast was so powerful that I flew out of the seat,” Michael Yitzhaki told Israeli army radio. “I looked to the rear and I automatically got out of the bus ­ and quick The bus went up in flames in seconds. The two bombers were believed to have died.”I was reading a book.

Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility, according to a Hizbollah television station in Lebanon.Israeli police said they believed the attack had been carried out by two suicide bombers, who drove a jeep full of explosives up to the side of the bus as it waited at a stop, and detonated it, a tactic Palestinian militants have not used often. At least 14 people were killed in northern Israel yesterday when Palestinian suicide bombers detonated a car bomb alongside a bus crowded with passengers. Mrs Franklin was shot on 14 October outside a Home Depot store in Falls Church, Virginia.The first apparent message from the sniper was found near the scene of a shooting that critically injured a 13-year-old boy outside his school in Prince George’s County, Maryland, east of Washington.The message in that incident was on a tarot “death” card directed to police, reading, “I am God.”. As in the previous shootings, the victim was felled by one shot.

A funeral service was held yesterday in Arlington, Virginia, for Linda Franklin, 47, the victim of the last fatal shooting linked to the sniper. “It’s going to be a stormy course,” he added.Surgeons removed the bullet from the man and turned it over to investigators, enabling police to reveal that ballistics tests linked the incident to the 11 previous shootings. Doctors were cautiously optimistic but said he would need more surgery.By lunchtime yesterday he was conscious and responding to his wife’s voice, said Dr Rao Ivatury at the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals in Richmond. Keith Underwood, service manager at a car dealership next door, said officers converged on the van and pulled the driver out “He was taken out under control,” he said.

“I didn’t see any resistance at all.”It is understood that the communication referred to by Mr Moose in his appeal was made in a separate phone call. Reports said the message was unclear because the caller had an unidentified accent.The 37-year-old man shot on Saturday was said to be in a stable condition after having his spleen and parts of his pancreas and stomach removed during six hours of surgery. In some cases, American universities – which happily disinvested in tobacco companies – have now taken the step of blocking all student access to their records of investment.Lawrence Summers, the Jewish president of Harvard, has denounced “profoundly anti-Israel views” in “progressive intellectual communities”, that are – I enjoyed this academic sleight of hand – “advocating and taking actions that are anti-semitic in their effect if not their intent”. Pipes wants students to inform on professors who are guilty of “campus anti-Semitism”.The University of North Carolina is being targeted – apparently because freshmen were required to read passages from the Koran – along with Harvard where, like students in many other US universities, undergraduates are demanding that their colleges disinvest in companies that sell weapons to Israel. One of the eight professors already on this contemptible McCarthyite list – it is grotesquely called “Campus Watch” – committed the unpardonable sin of signing a petition in support of the Palestinian scholar Edward Said. Where else can we read that Eitan Ben Eliahu, the former Israeli Air Force commander, said that “eventually we will have to thin out the number of Palestinians living in the territories”.