Pali bulldozer driver shot dead in Jerusalem copycat attack
* 16 injured in Jerusalem after digger driver goes on rampage Guardian
* Pali Arab kills 3 in Jerusalem bulldozer attack Reuters/previous attack
JERUSALEM (AFP) — A Palestinian bulldozer driver was shot dead in Jerusalem on Tuesday after injuring at least 16 people as he rammed cars in the second such attack this month, Israeli police and medics said.
Israeli police gather evidence next to a digger whose driver was shot dead after crashing into a bus and cars in central Jerusalem.
Jerusalem police chief Aharon Franco said “the terrorist was neutralised very quickly” and police were working to reopen the street near the landmark King David Hotel in central Jerusalem to traffic.
On July 2, a Palestinian killed three people and wounded 30 others when he rammed a bulldozer into a bus and cars on a busy Jerusalem street before being shot dead.
Franco said said Tuesday’s assailant attacked a bus, failing to overturn it, but smashing its windows.
“The bulldozer then rammed five cars and damaged them. A civilian tried to stop him when a border guard arrived and neutralised him.”
In the July 2 incident, the attacker managed to flip a bus, decapitating its driver in the process.
Andrea Mitchell might be a doyenne of the liberal media, but she has her reporter’s pride and principles, both of which have been trampled by the way the Obama campaign has managed the media during the candidate’s current trip to Afghanistan and Iraq. Mitchell let loose on this evening’s Hardball, speaking of “fake interviews” and indicating we don’t know the truth of the trip because we don’t know what was edited out of the video that’s been released.
