Newsgroup: it.cultura.ebraica
Titolo: Follia Pura

Kenya,attentato bomba in hotel: tanti morti israeliani, obbiettivo
dell'attentato
Una forte esplosione si è verificata stamane nell'atrio dell'hotel
Paradise a Mombasa, in Kenya, molto frequentato di solito da turisti
israeliani, lo riferisce il sito internet del quotidiano Yediot Ahronot,
insieme alla notizia che nello stesso momento un pilota della compagnia
israeliana Arkya ha evitato per un pelo due missili che sono stati
lanciati stamane contro il suo aereo dopo il decollo da Mombasa.
Il velivolo con a bordo 260 passeggeri e 10 membri di equipaggio era
diretto a Tel Aviv: l'attacco all'albergo Paradise di Mombasa e'
avvenuto nello stesso momento in cui il pilota lanciava l'allarme.
Notizia in Inglese da 
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFu
ll&cid=1038465354677
Nov. 28, 2002
Bombing at Kenyan hotel kills 11; missiles fired at Israeli airline.
By THE ASSOCIATEDE PRESS
KIKAMBALA, Kenya - Three suicide bombers attacked an Israeli-owned beach
hotel Thursday, killing 12 other people minutes after at least two
missiles were fired at an Israeli airliner taking off from the nearby
airport.
Officials suspected al-Qaida terrorists were behind the nearly
simultaneous attacks. The dead included two Israeli brothers aged 12 and
13 years.
In Beirut, Lebanon, a previously unknown group calling itself
"Government of Universal Palestine in Exile, The Army of Palestine"
claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying they were to mark the
55th anniversary of the partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jews
that led to the establishment of the state of Israel.
However, Kenyan and Israeli authorities suspected Osama bin Laden's
al-Qaida terror network was behind the daring attacks. Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon put the Mossad spy agency in charge of investigating the
attacks,and the Israelis vowed to track down the perpetrators.
"Our hand will reach them," Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, said of the
attackers. "If anyone doubted that the citizens of the state of Israel
cannot stand up to the killers of children, this doubt will be removed."
At about 8:35 a.m. (0530 GMT), a green all-terrain vehicle packed with
explosives rammed through the gate of the Paradise Hotel in Kikambala,
an Indian Ocean beach resort 20 kilometers (15 miles) north of Mombasa,
police said. One man jumped out and blew himself up inside the hotel,
while the others detonated the vehicle out front, witnesses said.
Police spokesman King'ori Mwangi said the dead included nine Kenyans,
two Israeli children and an Israeli man - and the three bombers.
Most of the Kenyan dead were traditional dancers who were performing for
the tourists, said Abbas Gullet of the Kenyan Red Cross. Zelig Feiner,
spokesman for ZAKA Israeli rescue services, said the dead Israeli
brothers were from the Jewish settlement of Ariel on the West Bank.
About 80 other people were wounded, said John Sawe, the Kenyan
ambassador to Israel.
About five minutes before the hotel attack, two missiles streaked by a
jetliner owned by the Arkia charter company as it left the Mombasa
international airport bound for Tel Aviv.
Witnesses said the missiles were fired from an all-terrain vehicle two
kilometers (a mile) from the airport, according to another police
spokesman, Jesse Mituki.
Mwangi said two missile casings were found near the airport and "three
or four men with Arab features" were seen leaving the area in a white
vehicle. He said reports that two suspects had been arrested were false.
"It looks like a coordinated attack," Mituki said.
The aircraft landed safely about 5$ hours later in Tel Aviv. None of the
261 passengers and 10 crew members was hurt.
Yehuda Sulami, the Paradise Hotel's director, said the vehicle smashed
through a gate outside the three-story, beach-side hotel. When it
reached the lobby, one man got out, ran into the reception area and set
off an explosion, killing himself, Sulami said.
He said the other two stayed in the vehicle, which exploded.
Hotel staff also saw a light plane circling over the hotel at the time
of the explosion, he said. Three packages, which staff said were bombs,
were dropped from the plane, one landing in the hotel pool, one on the
roof and one in the ocean, he said.
There were 140 guests at the 160-bed hotel at the time of the blast,
Sulami said. There are normally 40 security guards at the hotel, he
added.
"We have good relations with this community we have been here for years.
We have no problems," he said.
Kenya's coast is a predominantly Muslim region, and the area is popular
with holidaymakers from Israel and Europe.
Following blast, fire gutted the building, and an Associated Press
reporter saw seven bodies burned beyond recognition. Rescue workers
covered the bodies and searched for more casualties.
"We aren't sure this is the end, and there are quite a number of
Israelis injured," Yoav Biran, the Israeli Foreign Ministry's director
general, said.
Kenyan Vice President Musalia Mudavadi said that during the last six
months, Kenyan intelligence had been picking up reports that the country
could be targeted by terrorists. He did not elaborate.
"We can't rule out the group that struck at us in 1998," he said,
referring to al-Qaida's attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
on Aug. 7, 1998.
One blast at the U.S. Embassy in Kenya's capital Nairobi killed 219
people and wounded 5,000. A nearly simultaneous attack on the U.S.
Embassy in neighboring Tanzania killed 12 people and injured more than
80. Those convicted in the attacks have been linked to al-Qaida.
Sawe said, the Kenyan ambassador, said, "I don't have any doubt this is
al-Qaida."
Israeli Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that although al-Qaida
was suspected, authorities were looking into other possibilities. He
said Palestinian militants have been trying to get shoulder-held
missiles from Iran and the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah.
Netanyahu called the missile attack "a very dangerous escalation of
terror."
"It means that terror organizations and the regimes behind them are able
to arm themselves with weapons which can cause mass casualties anywhere
and everywhere," Netanyahu said. "Today, they're firing the missiles at
Israeli planes, tomorrow they'll fire missiles at American planes,
British planes, every country's aircraft. Therefore, there can be no
compromise with terror."
The pilot of the Arkia Airlines plane, Rafi Marek, said he felt a "light
hit" and saw two white vapor trails on the left of the aircraft shortly
after takeoff, but initially did not think the plane was under attack,
believing instead it had hit a bird.
Marek, speaking to a news conference at Ben Gurion International Airport
near Tel Aviv, did not say at what point he suspected foul play.
Marek said that after checking the plane's systems, he decided to
continue flying to Israel.
Passengers said they heard a loud boom and felt the plane
shake just after takeoff. The airline said there was no damage to the
plane.
"It felt like something fell off the wing," Kerry Levy, 25. Crew members
did not explain what happened until just before landing.
Israel's national air carrier, El Al, denied reports that its planes in
other countries had been grounded after the missile attack.

dell'attentato
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Perche' follia pura ?
E un disegno lucido, quello di sempre, non e' cambiato nulla, si  sono
solo, se mai, concretizzati metodi sempre piu' micidiali.
La distruzione dello Stato d'Israele.
E, gia' che ci siamo, quella del popolo Ebraico : e' questo che non si
vuole capire, da parte di tanti, di troppi.
Cesare Simonetti

 Cesare Simonetti

dell'attentato
(cut)
Perche' follia pura ?
E un disegno lucido, quello di sempre, non e' cambiato nulla, si  sono
solo, se mai, concretizzati metodi sempre piu' micidiali.
La distruzione dello Stato d'Israele.
E, gia' che ci siamo, quella del popolo Ebraico : e' questo che non si
vuole capire, da parte di tanti, di troppi.
Cesare Simonetti