UPDATE: Israel: Bulldozer Attack Kills 3 In Jerusalem

Opinion Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor

Certainly Police gave the man every opportunity to stop his rampage with a 5 ton bulldozer, ending his spree with a bullet from an off duty soldier, after the crazed man drove into a crowd, ramming a busload of people, injuring 45 people and killing at least 1 person, one believed a US Tourist, Female, age undetermined from other sources.  It has now been confirmed the man was 30 year old Palestinian, a Construction worker, whose motive has not been established.  More updates as they become available.

Below is a video of the Scene

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/jul/02/jerusalem.attack

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080702/twl-mideast-conflict-3cd7efd.html

Update :From the UK News Service

National police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld described the rampage in the heart of the Holy City as a "terrorist" act by a 30-year-old man from occupied east Jerusalem who worked for an Israeli company at a nearby construction site.

Chaos erupted as the heavy vehicle barrelled along the busy Jaffa Road, smashing into two crowded public buses, using its shovel to overturn one of them, and ramming other vehicles, reducing one car to a mangled wreck.

Police officers climbed onto the bulldozer and shot the man dead.

The attack was the first in Jerusalem since a Palestinian gunman killed eight Jewish students at a seminary in March.

"We have four people dead so far, including the driver of the earthmover, and 45 wounded, three of them seriously," said Yeroham Mendola, a spokesman for the Magen David Adom emergency services. He said a baby was among the wounded.

Police Commissioner Dudi Cohen told reporters the attack appeared to be a "spontaneous incident" carried out by a father of two who had a criminal past but no known links to armed groups.

He said police were looking into whether the man had "received instructions" from others.

Police identified the attacker as Hussam Tarysir Dwayat and questioned family members and neighbours in the Arab community of Sur Baher where he lived.

A little-known group calling itself the Imad Mughnieh unit of the Brigades of the Liberators of the Galilee claimed responsibility in a phone call to AFP. The credibility of the claim could not be immediately established.

The Palestinian movement Hamas which rules the besieged Gaza Strip called the attack "the natural result of continuing Israeli aggression and crimes against our people in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem."

But the Islamist group had no immediate information on who was behind the attack, spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told AFP.

Driver Assaf Nadav, who was lightly wounded in the attack, said the bulldozer initially bumped his city bus.

"I opened my window to tell the driver to be careful. He looked me in the eyes, lifted the bus and overturned it," Nadav told public radio from his hospital bed.

Security guards and police opened fire on the tractor as it moved several hundred metres (yards) down the street past crowds of screaming pedestrians.

"There were two policemen on the truck and I climbed onto the truck and saw the attacker leaning forward on the steering wheel and driving into another car," said Eli Misrahi, a member of an elite police unit. "Then I fired two rounds and killed him."

Several dazed people with bloody wounds milled around as sobbing commuters called loved ones on their mobile phones.

US President George W. Bush called Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to "express condolences for the terrorist attack," spokeswoman Dana Perino said in Washington.

The attack was a " horrific act ," said Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

Israeli Public Security Minister Avi Dichter said the attack would not succeed in severing mostly Arab east Jerusalem from what Israel considers its "eternal, undivided" capital.

"One must remember that one third of Jerusalem are Arab citizens but all of Jerusalem is Israel's sovereign territory," he told reporters.

Israel occupied and annexed east Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war.

Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians resumed in November after a seven-year hiatus but have made little progress amid violence in and around Gaza and continued Jewish settlement building on occupied Palestinian land.

At least 524 people have been killed since the negotiations resumed, mostly militants in the besieged Gaza Strip, according to an AFP count.

From earlier this morning