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Two Suicide Bombers Strike in Mideast
Aired August 12, 2003 - 05:31 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now to that breaking news out of the Middle East. First, the numbers. Two bombers in separate locations, four people dead, 12 hurt, some critically.
Let's get details on the attack near Ariel, that Jewish settlement near the West Bank.
Sheila MacVicar is there -- bring us up to date, Sheila.
SHEILA MACVICAR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
I'm standing on the main east-west route that runs through the West Bank. Just behind me there, down on the bottom of that small hill, you can perhaps see a bus stop. It's right outside the entrance into the settlement of Ariel, home to 18,000 people. A little more than, oh, two and a half hours now, we are told a Palestinian suicide bomber walked up to that bus stop. There were people there. This is a commuter city. People take the bus to go to work in Tel Aviv and elsewhere. He walked up to that bus stop, detonated his device, killing himself and one other person -- we are told that person is an Israeli, we have no further information on precisely who that person is -- and has wounded at least four others. We are told that two of them are in critical condition.
Now, that was the second bus blast of this morning. Earlier today, at Rosh Ha'ayin, which is a city in Israel, it's about 12 miles to the west from here, just across what's known as the green line, a suicide bomber walked into a small grocery store in a shopping mall there, detonated his device. He has killed one other person and we are told there are at least 10 people wounded there, some of them, indeed, critically injured.
Now, these are the first suicide blasts since the declared cease- fire. That was about six week ago, the so-called hudna or cease-fire was put into effect, unilaterally declared by the Palestinian militant factions. We have heard repeatedly from Israeli officials, Israeli politicians, over the course of that six weeks that the cease-fire was simply not enough and that they wanted the U.S. administration to put increasing pressure on the Palestinian Authority to go after what they call the infrastructure of terror.
There will be more calls for that again today. One of the first impacts we have seen of what has happened today, Israel has canceled a planned prisoner release -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Sheila MacVicar reporting live for us this morning.
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Aired August 12, 2003 - 05:31 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now to that breaking news out of the Middle East. First, the numbers. Two bombers in separate locations, four people dead, 12 hurt, some critically.
Let's get details on the attack near Ariel, that Jewish settlement near the West Bank.
Sheila MacVicar is there -- bring us up to date, Sheila.
SHEILA MACVICAR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
I'm standing on the main east-west route that runs through the West Bank. Just behind me there, down on the bottom of that small hill, you can perhaps see a bus stop. It's right outside the entrance into the settlement of Ariel, home to 18,000 people. A little more than, oh, two and a half hours now, we are told a Palestinian suicide bomber walked up to that bus stop. There were people there. This is a commuter city. People take the bus to go to work in Tel Aviv and elsewhere. He walked up to that bus stop, detonated his device, killing himself and one other person -- we are told that person is an Israeli, we have no further information on precisely who that person is -- and has wounded at least four others. We are told that two of them are in critical condition.
Now, that was the second bus blast of this morning. Earlier today, at Rosh Ha'ayin, which is a city in Israel, it's about 12 miles to the west from here, just across what's known as the green line, a suicide bomber walked into a small grocery store in a shopping mall there, detonated his device. He has killed one other person and we are told there are at least 10 people wounded there, some of them, indeed, critically injured.
Now, these are the first suicide blasts since the declared cease- fire. That was about six week ago, the so-called hudna or cease-fire was put into effect, unilaterally declared by the Palestinian militant factions. We have heard repeatedly from Israeli officials, Israeli politicians, over the course of that six weeks that the cease-fire was simply not enough and that they wanted the U.S. administration to put increasing pressure on the Palestinian Authority to go after what they call the infrastructure of terror.
There will be more calls for that again today. One of the first impacts we have seen of what has happened today, Israel has canceled a planned prisoner release -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Sheila MacVicar reporting live for us this morning.
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