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These days "getting away" is easier said than done. Ask the Israelis who arrived at the Paradise Hotel in Mombasa just as bombs exploded there, killing three of them, or the passengers on the charter flight from Mombasa to Tel Aviv who barely escaped death by surface-to-air missile. Following the horror of the Bali bombings in October, the attacks in Kenya confirm that tourists are now in the terrorists' cross hairs. Soft targets, that euphemism of the month, seem to be softest when they're wearing shorts or sinking a few brews...
Israeli pilot Rafi Marek was 90 seconds into his flight from Mombasa, Kenya, at about 3,000 ft., when he felt an unexpected thump. He thought it was the impact of a bird hitting the fuselage of his Arkia charter Boeing 757 carrying 261 Israelis home from a beach vacation. But he wondered if something far more frightening might have been after his plane when crew members spotted two white stripes of smoke streaming past the jet's tail, only 100 yards away. Two shoulder-fired heat-seeking missiles had just missed blowing up Marek's plane: the launcher...
David D. Diaz ’05, who said he witnessed the incident, noted that bystanders intervened to get the charter bus to move...
Every student group is required by the College to have a charter, a brief document detailing the goals and organizational structure of that group. HRCF’s charter is very clear on the issue of discrimination: it is unequivocally endorsed. Article II, Section 1 of HRCF’s charter lists the group’s “Principles of Faith,” which are a series of statements that unambiguously require that those who accept them be religious Christians. Section 2 of the charter reads in full, “Officers of this organization must subscribe...
...exactly a bargain, but U.S. defense officials believe such systems will have to become standard equipment aboard U.S. airliners. They say the terrorists' failure to down the Israeli charter plane last week may have simply been a product of poor training or a mechanical glitch...