They believe the reaction will be chaos, an explosion towards the Palestinian Authority. I told them many times, be careful, the explosion could be against you.”. A bomb exploded in a crowded cafeteria at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University at lunchtime, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 70

A bomb exploded in a crowded cafeteria at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University at lunchtime, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 70
The blast happened in the university’s Frank Sinatra cafeteria. Classes have ended for the summerr, but the broad-based student body, which includes Jews, Arabs and foreign students, were taking exams and the cafeteria was busy at the time of the blast.Israeli government spokesman Danny Seaman, who confirmed that six people were dead, said it wasn’t clear whether a suicide bomber carried out the attack, or if someone placed the bomb in the cafeteria.Alastair Goldrein, 19, from Liverpool said the cafeteria was a place where Jewish, Arab and foreign students mixed freely.”I was on my way to lunch There was a huge, huge explosion.

Everything shook and then there was this deathly silence,” said Mr Goldrein, who has been taking Jewish studies at the university for the past year. “I ran in, there were people lying around wailing, covered in blood. Scenes that are indescribable, clothes and flesh torn apart.”The blast was at the university’s Mount Scopus campus, a Jewish enclave surrounded by Palestinian neighbourhoods in the eastern part of the city. The university has extremely heavy security.Militant Islamic group Hamas said it was responsible for the explosion.Today’s blast came a day after a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself at a fast–food stand in Jerusalem, killing himself and wounding several Israelis. That explosion was also near the dividing line between east and west Jerusalem.. The United Nations went into abrupt reverse yesterday and said it no longer intended to release a report compiled by a team of UN officials who visited the site where a US warplane attacked a wedding party in Afghanistan on 1 July. They included the charge that the US had under-reported the numbers of people who had died and US soldiers had removed evidence from the site, suggesting a cover-up.A UN spokesman said on Monday that a final draft would be made public within 24 hours That had all changed by yesterday morning, however.

Instead, a statement from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said the report would remain an internal document and would be shown only to the Afghan and American governments.The row came as Kabul released fresh details of a bombing attack that was foiled when a man driving a car loaded with explosives was arrested in the capital on Monday. Officials said the man was a foreigner, which often means Arab or Pakistani in local parlance. By all accounts, the plot, if successful, could have been devastatingly effective. The plotter had allegedly planned to detonate himself and the car in an attack either on the president, Hamid Karzai, his top officials or on foreign targets such as the US embassy or the headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force.The Toyota was packed with large quantities of TNT and C4 explosives that could have caused widespread damage. It would have been detonated by wires connected to two extra car batteries.