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Self Defense in the news Part 12
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Israeli Forces Raid Refugee Camp
Israel: Armed Guard foils Attacker who Tries to Bomb Club
AP
Friday: Israeli police examine the body of a Palestinian who tried to attack a Tel Aviv nightclub.
Friday, May 24, 2002
TEL AVIV, Israel - Israeli soldiers on Friday raided a West Bank refugee camp ? a stronghold of Palestinian militants ? following back-to-back attacks on Israel's largest fuel depot, a pedestrian mall and a nightclub.
As fighting persisted, an adviser to Yasser Arafat said the Palestinian leader will hold general elections this winter, but only if Israeli troops pull back to positions they held before the outbreak of fighting in September 2000.
Israeli forces, however, looked poised to stay in the West Bank.
Israel TV's Channel Two reported that the army has been given a green light to launch a new military campaign, including raids into Palestinian cities that could last for several days. Raanan Gissin, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said he was not aware of government approval for a new offensive.
In the Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern West Bank, Palestinian militiamen ambushed Israeli soldiers riding atop an armored personnel carrier at the camp's entrance, wounding two soldiers. In the hail of gunfire, one of the soldiers fell from the vehicle, said a Palestinian gunman, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Israeli army said one soldier was killed.
Tank gunners fired shells and machine guns, and four Palestinians were wounded, including a woman and a 4-year-old child, Palestinian doctors said.
The Israeli military confirmed the exchange of fire.
Israeli troops imposed a curfew in Tulkarem. Israeli soldiers have been carrying out daily arrest raids in Palestinian areas following a recent military offensive aimed at dismantling militant groups that have launched scores of bombing and shooting attacks against Israelis.
FNC
A brief lull in attacks ended this week.
In a third attack in 28 hours, a Palestinian militant drove a bomb-laden car at high speed toward a Tel Aviv night club early Friday, but was shot and killed by a security guard. The assailant tried to blow up the Studio 49 club in Tel Aviv, where about 200 people were partying at about 1 a.m.
Security guard Eli Federman said he saw the car turn sharply and race toward the club. He pushed clubgoers inside and opened fire, hitting the attacker, who fell from the car, which burst into flames.
"Then I fired the rest of the bullets into his head," killing him, Federman said.
The car had been carrying pipe bombs.
The Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, a militia linked to Arafat's Fatah movement, identified the driver as Amer Shkokani of the West Bank town of El Bireh.
A suicide bombing Wednesday in the Tel Aviv suburb of Rishon Letzion was also carried out by the Al Aqsa militia. Two Israelis and the bomber were killed.
The attacker, 16-year-old Issa Bdeir from Al Doha village outside Bethlehem, was the youngest suicide bomber during 20 months of fighting.
AP
Friday: Israeli police carry away the body of a Palestinian who tried to attack a Tel Aviv nightclub.
In a videotaped farewell message, the boy wore a backpack and posed with two pistols.
"I am going to carry out my operation to avenge the continuous Israeli aggression that is still committed against our people," he said, reading from a piece of paper.
Arafat's office issued a statement Friday denying that his Fatah movement had any link to the Al Aqsa militia's leaflets claiming responsibility for recent attacks. That statement highlighted growing division within the Palestinian faction over bombing attacks.
No Palestinian group has claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack on the Pi Glilot fuel depot, in which a bomb attached to the underside of a tanker truck exploded, destroying the cabin but causing no injuries. The depot, Israel's largest, is in the center of the country's most densely populated area near Tel Aviv.
The attack highlighted Israel's vulnerability to large-scale, strategic attacks that security officials and counterterrorism experts warned Palestinians were seeking to carry out.
Security officials also announced this week that they uncovered a plot to explode trucks laden with a ton of explosives under Tel Aviv's twin Azrieli Towers, Israel's tallest buildings.
Sharon's office said Friday that 32 Palestinian attacks had been foiled since Israel's large-scale military operation in the West Bank wound down last week.
Also Friday, a senior adviser to Arafat said the Palestinian leader plans to hold elections for president and parliament this winter, as long as Israeli military forces withdraw to positions they held before fighting began 20 months ago.
Arafat is under pressure from abroad and at home to reform his Palestinian Authority, and to unify the Palestinian security services into one agency.
Before elections are held, Arafat also wants to be sure that Palestinian residents of traditionally Arab east Jerusalem will be allowed to participate ? as they did in 1996, said his adviser, Nabil Abu Rdeneh.
Abu Rdeneh also said Arafat would appoint a new, smaller Cabinet for the interim period leading up to the elections.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53606,00.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Israel: Armed Guard foils Attacker who Tries to Bomb Club
AP
Friday: Israeli police examine the body of a Palestinian who tried to attack a Tel Aviv nightclub.
Friday, May 24, 2002
TEL AVIV, Israel - Israeli soldiers on Friday raided a West Bank refugee camp ? a stronghold of Palestinian militants ? following back-to-back attacks on Israel's largest fuel depot, a pedestrian mall and a nightclub.
As fighting persisted, an adviser to Yasser Arafat said the Palestinian leader will hold general elections this winter, but only if Israeli troops pull back to positions they held before the outbreak of fighting in September 2000.
Israeli forces, however, looked poised to stay in the West Bank.
Israel TV's Channel Two reported that the army has been given a green light to launch a new military campaign, including raids into Palestinian cities that could last for several days. Raanan Gissin, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said he was not aware of government approval for a new offensive.
In the Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern West Bank, Palestinian militiamen ambushed Israeli soldiers riding atop an armored personnel carrier at the camp's entrance, wounding two soldiers. In the hail of gunfire, one of the soldiers fell from the vehicle, said a Palestinian gunman, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Israeli army said one soldier was killed.
Tank gunners fired shells and machine guns, and four Palestinians were wounded, including a woman and a 4-year-old child, Palestinian doctors said.
The Israeli military confirmed the exchange of fire.
Israeli troops imposed a curfew in Tulkarem. Israeli soldiers have been carrying out daily arrest raids in Palestinian areas following a recent military offensive aimed at dismantling militant groups that have launched scores of bombing and shooting attacks against Israelis.
FNC
A brief lull in attacks ended this week.
In a third attack in 28 hours, a Palestinian militant drove a bomb-laden car at high speed toward a Tel Aviv night club early Friday, but was shot and killed by a security guard. The assailant tried to blow up the Studio 49 club in Tel Aviv, where about 200 people were partying at about 1 a.m.
Security guard Eli Federman said he saw the car turn sharply and race toward the club. He pushed clubgoers inside and opened fire, hitting the attacker, who fell from the car, which burst into flames.
"Then I fired the rest of the bullets into his head," killing him, Federman said.
The car had been carrying pipe bombs.
The Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, a militia linked to Arafat's Fatah movement, identified the driver as Amer Shkokani of the West Bank town of El Bireh.
A suicide bombing Wednesday in the Tel Aviv suburb of Rishon Letzion was also carried out by the Al Aqsa militia. Two Israelis and the bomber were killed.
The attacker, 16-year-old Issa Bdeir from Al Doha village outside Bethlehem, was the youngest suicide bomber during 20 months of fighting.
AP
Friday: Israeli police carry away the body of a Palestinian who tried to attack a Tel Aviv nightclub.
In a videotaped farewell message, the boy wore a backpack and posed with two pistols.
"I am going to carry out my operation to avenge the continuous Israeli aggression that is still committed against our people," he said, reading from a piece of paper.
Arafat's office issued a statement Friday denying that his Fatah movement had any link to the Al Aqsa militia's leaflets claiming responsibility for recent attacks. That statement highlighted growing division within the Palestinian faction over bombing attacks.
No Palestinian group has claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack on the Pi Glilot fuel depot, in which a bomb attached to the underside of a tanker truck exploded, destroying the cabin but causing no injuries. The depot, Israel's largest, is in the center of the country's most densely populated area near Tel Aviv.
The attack highlighted Israel's vulnerability to large-scale, strategic attacks that security officials and counterterrorism experts warned Palestinians were seeking to carry out.
Security officials also announced this week that they uncovered a plot to explode trucks laden with a ton of explosives under Tel Aviv's twin Azrieli Towers, Israel's tallest buildings.
Sharon's office said Friday that 32 Palestinian attacks had been foiled since Israel's large-scale military operation in the West Bank wound down last week.
Also Friday, a senior adviser to Arafat said the Palestinian leader plans to hold elections for president and parliament this winter, as long as Israeli military forces withdraw to positions they held before fighting began 20 months ago.
Arafat is under pressure from abroad and at home to reform his Palestinian Authority, and to unify the Palestinian security services into one agency.
Before elections are held, Arafat also wants to be sure that Palestinian residents of traditionally Arab east Jerusalem will be allowed to participate ? as they did in 1996, said his adviser, Nabil Abu Rdeneh.
Abu Rdeneh also said Arafat would appoint a new, smaller Cabinet for the interim period leading up to the elections.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53606,00.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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Owner trades fire with 2 suspects after he is beaten, police say
SunSpot staff and wire reports
Originally published May 31, 2002, 3:00 PM EDT
Baltimore City police have one man in custody and are searching for another suspect in the armed robbery of a store this morning that ended with the shopkeeper trading gunfire with his two attackers, according to a department spokesman.
Officer Troy J. Harris said the incident occurred just before 8 a.m. in the 600 block of Edgewood St. He could not immediately provide the name or exact address of the store.
Two men entered the store and accosted the owner -- who police have yet to identify -- beating him "severely" with at least one gun, according to Harris, and reportedly stealing an undetermined amount of cash. As the suspects fled, Harris said the store owner shot at the men, who returned fire.
Harris said no one is believed to have been hit in the shootout. He could not say how many shots were fired or what type of weapons were involved, but did say the store owner was licensed to have the gun.
Responding officers detained one suspect in the assault and robbery during a canvass of the neighborhood, Harris said. He had no information on the suspect's identity or any charges against the man.
The other suspect remains at large, Harris said.
The store owner suffered "considerable injuries" to his right eye and head as a result of the beating, Harris said. He is listed in stable condition at St. Agnes Hospital. http://www.sunspot.net/news/custom/guns/bal-robbery31.story
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By DAVID BENDER
An armed resident of the Samaria community of Shavei Shomron shot and killed an armed Palestinian terrorist who infiltrated the settlement a short time ago.
The Palestinian reportedly hurled an explosive device at a kindergarten after entering the community, and was shot dead near the entrance to a home.
There are no reports of injury to the community's residents or security forces.
Residents were instructed to remain in their homes until security officials deem the area safe.
Large IDF and Border Police forces are searching for a second terrorist seen fleeing the vicinity, located north of Nablus.
The attempted assault is similar to a lethal attack against the community of Itamar, also located in Samaria, in which two yeshiva students were shot dead and several others wounded earlier this week.
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Hijacked bus driver kept his cool, helped passengers escape gunman
By MIKE GLENN
Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle
Genis Williams had only been driving a Metro bus for about seven months when a gunman hijacked his vehicle last week and threatened the riders.
Williams kept his cool, however. He helped the passengers escape before grappling with the pistol-wielding assailant and forcing him off the bus.
"My main concern was the children on the bus and the women -- the passengers," Williams said Thursday. "I was responsible for their lives."
Metro officials said Williams acted "above and beyond the call of duty."
"We don't expect drivers to struggle with suspects. I think he acted very bravely and it had a very good outcome," said Metro Police Capt. Michael G. Raney. "We're just very proud of him and what he accomplished."
Metro Police detectives are continuing to search for the man responsible for the May 23 hijacking. Investigators said Williams was picking up riders in the 8100 block of Martin Luther King Blvd. when a maroon Chevrolet Cavalier pulled in front of the bus.
The hijacker got out of the car and approached the bus.
"He beat on the window frantically like he really wanted to get on," Williams said. "I thought he just wanted to ride the bus."
Police said the man pulled out a semi-automatic pistol soon after climbing aboard the bus.
"He came on and told me to drive 35 miles an hour and don't look suspicious and don't call for help," Williams said.
The man walked to the rear of the bus, which was carrying about 17 passengers at the time. Police said he began waving the pistol around and threatening the passengers.
"That's when everyone on the bus started screaming," Williams said.
The man then returned to the front of the bus, sliding the pistol into the waistband of his sweatsuit.
"As he was coming toward me, I was pulling the bus over at the same time," Williams said. "He tucked the gun in his pants and grabbed my wrist. As soon as he grabbed my wrist, I grabbed him."
As the two men struggled, Williams was able to trigger an emergency alarm and open the bus doors, allowing the riders to escape.
Williams, who stands over 6-feet-tall and weighs about 275 pounds, overpowered the gunman and shoved him off the bus before racing away.
"I didn't give him time to turn around and pull his weapon," Williams said.
Metro police are still trying to figure out why the man hijacked the bus. The only possible clue is the car he used to block the bus. It had been stolen earlier from a restaurant in the 6300 block of Martin Luther King.
"We have no information what was on his mind," Raney said. "We have no information what his motive was."
He is described as a 24- to 25-year-old black man with short brown hair, brown eyes and a thin mustache. He is about 5-feet-7 to 5-feet-8 inches tall and weighs between 120-160 pounds.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS. A $5,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest and indictment of the gunman. http://www.aztrib.com/opinion/edit10531.shtml
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
00:00 - 30 May 2002
A shopkeeper chased an armed raider out of his store.
The robber went into Park Stores in Prestbury, Cheltenham, at 7.40pm yesterday and threatened staff with a gun.
An assistant raised the alarm and owner Dean Hodgson chased the raider down New Barn Lane.
The robber escaped with ?350 in a waiting Ford Fiesta.
Mr Hodgson said: "I was in the lounge at the back of the shop when one of my girls pressed the bell under the counter. I ran through to the front as fast as I could but, by the time I got there, the guy was walking through the door and closing it behind him.
"I ran after him and was about 150 yards behind as he ran across the green and in front of the Pittville Campus.
"As I crossed the road I was almost hit by a Cavalier."
Police later arrested a 29- year-old man in connection with the incident.
He was helping detectives with their inquiries early today.
http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=84261&command=displayContent&sourceNode=84260&contentPK=1804972
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878