Foiled attack at Kerem Shalom border crossing averted thanks to sharp instincts,

[MicroBalrog]

Too close for comfort

Foiled attack at Kerem Shalom border crossing averted thanks to sharp instincts, timely warning by Major Wahid of Desert Patrol Battalion
Hanan Greenberg

Bobby-trapped car, booby-trapped car, this call from Major Wahid, deputy commander of the desert patrol battalion, saved the lives of his soldiers Friday, after terrorists attempted a combined infiltration at the Kerem Shalom border crossing. Thirteen soldiers were lightly injured.

 

The quick identification and warning enabled the soldiers to enter their armored vehicles, so that the 660 lbs of explosives aboard the booby-trapped car caused only minor damage and injuries.

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One of the jeeps neared the post occupied by soldiers and exploded nearby it, said Major Wahid in one of the debriefings. The soldiers only suffered light injuries. The second jeep neared the assistant battalion commanders force, but just then the warning came and the soldiers were saved."

 

The vehicle stopped 20 feet from the force and exploded. According to IDF estimates, the terrorist driving the car was supposed to reach the area where it exploded, kidnap an injured soldier and take him back into Gaza.

 

Another force present in the sector opened fire and killed the driver.

 
Major Wahid told his soldiers that as far as he was concerned they should all be given a commendation:  Any IDF officer would have done the same, Wahid said. I dont think I did anything special.

 
Six of the soldiers involved in the incident are still hospitalized at the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, one in intensive care and the rest in various surgical units.

 
MicroBalrog Sez:

1. This is one of the vehicles used by the terrorists. Yes, this is an actual BRDM, your eyes do not deceive you.



Apparently, the plan was to set off the bombs, collect injured IDF soldiers into the BRDM, and leg it.

2. The Desert Patrol Battalion is composed almost completely of Beduin and Druze, not Jews. It is quite likely, given that and the Deputy Commander's name, that Major Wahid is a Beduin. So much for the Evil Muslims.

[Bigjake]

2. The Desert Patrol Battalion is composed almost completely of Beduin and Druze, not Jews. It is quite likely, given that and the Deputy Commander's name, that Major Wahid is a Beduin. So much for the Evil Muslims.

I rather doubt your average Muslim appriciates almost getting blown up 

I thought they cut this *expletive deleted*it out, since jimmuh cartuh made nice with em'. 

[MicroBalrog]

I rather doubt your average Muslim appriciates almost getting blown up 

Yeah, but a fellow risking his life to save his fellow [Jewish] troops is something that doesn't jive with the stereotype many people seem to have of Muslims and/or Arabs.

[RevDisk]

I rather doubt your average Muslim appriciates almost getting blown up 

Yeah, but a fellow risking his life to save his fellow [Jewish] troops is something that doesn't jive with the stereotype many people seem to have of Muslims and/or Arabs.

Lot of folks don't go out and see for themselves.  Most people are just people.  A job, a family, hobbies, yelling at the kids listening to Gods awful music, and tellin' em to get off their lawn.  It's always a handful of people, of any ilk, that cause trouble for a million times their number of normal folk.

[Bigjake]

The bonds you share with  your brothers in arms seem to transcend the stupid little differences and stereotypes.  I don't think the majority of people here subscribe to the "all muslims are evil" nonsense, but I do believe that the added scrutiny isn't a bad thing.  Which major religion has wreaked the most havoc on civilized society in the name of religion in the past few decades?  Give ya a hint, it wasn't Catholics.....

[roo_ster]

Which major religion has wreaked the most havoc on civilized society in the name of religion in the past few decades?  Give ya a hint, it wasn't Catholics.....

Yeah, they've gone soft. 

My sister went papist for my BIL and part of the draw my BIL used was the prospect of nuns with rulers putting the fear of God and penguins into my nephews (difficult children) at school.

Lo & Behold! when she puts her kids in school, not a nun with a ruler & the conviction to use it was to be found.

She was sorely disappointed.

[Bigjake]

Which major religion has wreaked the most havoc on civilized society in the name of religion in the past few decades?  Give ya a hint, it wasn't Catholics.....

Yeah, they've gone soft. 

My sister went papist for my BIL and part of the draw my BIL used was the prospect of nuns with rulers putting the fear of God and penguins into my nephews (difficult children) at school.

Lo & Behold! when she puts her kids in school, not a nun with a ruler & the conviction to use it was to be found.

She was sorely disappointed.

Bummer.  I guess they have gone soft since "The Blues Brothers"

[Bigjake]

Hmm... apparently my YouTube-Foo is lacking, I can't find the Penguin beatdown scene from Blues Brothers

[Scout26]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYt7w2M2Fio

I can't find the complete scene.

[K Frame]

Not politics.

[Antibubba]

Yeah, but a fellow risking his life to save his fellow [Jewish] troops is something that doesn't jive with the stereotype many people seem to have of Muslims and/or Arabs.

One of the biggest lies misconceptions about the Israeli situation is that it is an anti-Arab/Muslim thing.  It isn't.  Israel has many Moslem citizens, and they don't regard themselves as Palestinians, but Israelis.  They vote, serve in the military, and sometimes, like their fellow Jewish Israelis, are killed by Hamas violence.  The Druze, and especially the Beduins have been marginalized by Arabs or the Arab governments under whom they lived; in Israel they have Parlimentary representation.  Israeli Muslim citizens look at the (self-induced) conditions of the Palestinians and thank Allah for their own good fortune.  They fear an Arab run state too.

Don't forget, too, that there are a substantial number of Christian Palestinians, though they aren't the ones firing rockets or wearing nailbomb vests.

[MicroBalrog]

That said, AB, there's a lot of negative stereotypes of Arabs/Muslims among the Jewish population.

[Manedwolf]

That said, AB, there's a lot of negative stereotypes of Arabs/Muslims among the Jewish population.

You might think the rockets and suicide bombers taking out cafes full of civilians might have something to do with that.