The Face of the Enemy

This is a story that isn't getting enough attention outside the blogosphere. A Palestinian woman, who was horribly injured, went to an Israeli hospital to obtain care for her injuries. That sounds normal enough. This happens all the time.

What follows is anything but ordinary.

The woman was found carrying a bomb into the hospital where she was seeking care. She was a suicide bomber, but was thwarted when Israeli security became suspicious.

The bomb weighed 25 pounds, which is more than enough to ruin the day of a whole lot of people.

And where would those people have gone? She was targeting the very place those people would have been transported to for care.

Now, why isn't this story a higher profile in US media?

This is the face of the threat facing us today. This is the existential threat facing Israel every single day. It is the possible threat the US faces down the line, and some of us know it. Law enforcement knows it; they've had reports of individuals casing hospitals in New Jersey within the last year.

Terrorists are sneaky bastards and al Qaeda specializes in spectacular attacks. What could be more spectacular than an attack that levels a Level 1 trauma center in New York (Cornell, Columbia, Belleview) or LA (Cedars Sinai), etc. It's a scary thought.

Yet only one major network ran a story on it; Fox. The others have been stone cold silent. Why?

People need to know this is the enemy we face. This is the tactics they use. This is the kind of people that we detain at GitMo. They seek to murder as many people as possible in an act that kills themselve in the belief that they go to heaven for their actions.

Don't you think that might change a few minds on how we deal with terrorists? Don't you think it might change just a few minds on how the US deals with the Palestinians? How we fight the war on terror?

I do.

Here's more on how the terrorist was apprehended:

A 21-year old Arab woman from Gaza, who had been treated in an Israeli hospital for massive burns she received as a result of a gas tank explosion, was apprehended yesterday at the Erez Crossing wearing "explosive pants." She said she had been directed to carry out her suicide attack inside the crowded Israeli hospital.

The woman, Wafaa Samir Ibrahim Bass, had been given permission to cross the Gaza lines yesterday for admission to Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva for continued medical treatment for her facial scars. "The terrorist infrastructure took advantage of her medical condition," read an IDF statement, "in order to carry out a major suicide bombing attack inside Israel."

The resident of Jabaliya aroused the suspicion of the IDF soldiers at the crossing, who placed her in a side room for further checking via camera. During her security check, when she realized that the soldiers had discovered the explosive belt on her body, she attempted unsuccessfully to detonate it.

Israel National News