The players and staff traditionally meet at the restaurant every Saturday. Walls inside were riddled with holes, wires hung down from the ceiling and clusters of pipes were exposed. Chunks were blown off pillars throughout the restaurant.Among the wounded were several members of the Maccabi Haifa football club. There were not a lot of wounded, just a lot of people strewn on the ground there was nothing to do, no way to help them,” he said.He said children were among the dead.The blast blew out windows, and others were pockmarked by shrapnel.

The chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said he appealed to international mediators to ensure that Israel does not retaliate. “We don’t want Israel to add fuel to the fire,” he said.David Baker, an official in Mr Sharon’s office, said the blast shows that “the Palestinian Authority continues to refuse to take even minimal steps against the terrorist infrastructure.”The explosion went off shortly after 2pm (midday GMT) at the restaurant, near a major junction at the southern entrance to Haifa.A motorist, identified only as Navon, said he was at the junction when he heard the blast: “When I got to the area of the restaurant, we saw smoke all the glass had been blown out.”We went in, about five or six of us and started to take the wounded out In truth there was not much to take out. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has suggested action would be taken against President Arafat if there was another major suicide bombing with heavy casualties.The incoming Palestinian prime minister, Ahmed Qureia, condemned the bombing as an “ugly attack” and urged all Palestinian groups to stop violence against civilians. Police said it remained unclear whether shots were fired.There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing, which came on the Sabbath before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.The deadliness of the attack raised the possibility that Israel could take action against Arafat, whom the Israeli Cabinet has threatened to “remove,” implying either expulsion or assassination, without saying when it would take action. TV reports said five children were among the dead.First reports said the attacker shot dead the security guard at the entrance before setting off about 22lbs of explosives inside the restaurant. Five people were wounded, including three children.”While commanding a force of three tanks in the roads of Jenin, the commander ordered troops to fire machine-guns and shells at points he chose, in order to enforce the curfew,” the indictment reads, adding that more than 10 shells were fired.The indictment charges the soldier with manslaughter and causing grievous bodily harm.A report in the army magazine Bamahane, a weekly for soldiers, said the indictment was based on testimony given by the father of the dead girl.. The officer, a lieutenant in the armoured corps, told tank crews to fire to force Palestinians off the streets.Four Palestinians were killed – two boys, aged five and 13, a girl aged six and a man aged 53.

The illusionists signed a lifetime contract with the Mirage in 2001.. An Israeli army officer has been charged with killing four Palestinians, including three children, by ordering soldiers to fire tank shells and machine- guns to enforce a curfew. He looked like a rag doll,” said Andy Cushman, aged 23 from New Jersey.Mirage spokesman Alan Feldman said Horn, who underwent surgery early today, had “sustained a serious injury to the left side of his neck.” Feldman said Horn was in surgery late Friday.Horn, the dark-haired member of the duo, appeared alone on stage with a white tiger about 45 minutes into the show, and told the audience the tiger was nine years old and was making his debut.A short time after the attack, Siegfried Fisbacher appeared on stage and said the performance was cancelled.The German-born pair go on stage six times a week, 44 weeks a year and have been performing in Las Vegas for more than 30 years. Horn tried to beat him off with a microphone.”The tiger went for his neck, then dragged him offstage. A tiger attacked magician Roy Horn of the duo “Siegfried & Roy” during a performance last night, critically injuring the superstar illusionist.
The tiger lunged at Horn, who turned was celebrating his 59th birthday, in a show at the Mirage hotel-casino. Almost certainly, therefore, he will have the unwelcome distinction of being the first incumbent since Herbert Hoover to preside over a net loss of jobs during his term.. Robust growth of 3.5 per cent is forecast for the final quarter of 2003, but to the White House’s chagrin this has been the “jobless recovery”.The headline unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.1 per cent last month, although the latest figures may show that as the recovery continues new jobs are finally being created.Since Mr Bush took office, the US economy has lost more than 2.5 million jobs.