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Palestinian driver killed after tractor rams cars
Thu Mar 5, 2009 10:06am EST
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A bulldozer driven by a Palestinian crushed a police car and hit a bus on a busy Jerusalem highway Thursday before police and a taxi driver shot him dead in what Israel called a "terrorist" attack.
An open Koran, the Muslim holy book, was found in the driver's cabin, Niso Shaham, Jerusalem's deputy police chief, told reporters at the scene.
A police source identified the bulldozer driver as an Arab construction worker, but said it was unclear whether he came from Arab East Jerusalem or the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem said the driver and his family lived there.
No Palestinian militant groups have claimed responsibility for the incident, which came a day after a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Hamas said the attack was a "natural response" to Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem and to the Jewish state's military offensive in the Gaza Strip, which the Islamist movement controls.
Riyad al-Malki, information minister for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Western-backed government, described the incident as a "traffic accident."
Police and witnesses said the driver of the bulldozer first turned over a police car, crushing its roof, injuring two officers inside.
The bulldozer then slammed the police car into a large bus but no one was hurt, police said.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld would not identify the bulldozer driver, saying an investigation was underway.
The driver, whom Rosenfeld called a "terrorist," was not carrying any identification papers.
Nir Barkat, Jerusalem's mayor, said he would recommend that authorities take "the harshest measures we can take by law" against those involved in the attack.
Israel has previously threatened to demolish the homes of Palestinian attackers.
Police compared Thursday's attack to three similar incidents last year, two with bulldozers and one with a BMW car.
In the 2008 incidents, which police also called "terrorist" attacks, the drivers were identified as Palestinians from Arab East Jerusalem. Continued...
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