Unique Story of Man Wounded in Yesterday's Suicide Bombing in Jerusalem
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: One of the people wounded in yesterday's suicide bombing in Jerusalem is an American who also was a survivor of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center. CNN Jerusalem bureau chief Mike Hanna joins us with update from there. Mike, hello.</s>MIKE HANNA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Bill. Well, Israelis remain on tenderhooks in the wake of a series of terror attacks against civilian targets. In the latest such attack on Sunday, an explosive device detonated in the middle of Jerusalem, in Japarod (ph), which only a few days before had been the scene of another such terror attack. Police are investigating this incident. They believe that the explosive device was being carried by a Palestinian woman. They are not certain at this stage whether she was a suicide bomber or whether she was actually carrying or planting the device when it exploded. If, in fact, it turns out she was the suicide bomber, this would be the first time a woman carried out such a suicide attack in more than 16 months of violence, involving over 30 suicide attacks against Israeli civilian targets. Among those who injured in the bomb blast was a 43-year-old lawyer from New York Mark Sokolow.</s>MARK SOKOLOW: We got separated, and we were standing in front of the store waiting for our cousin to join us, and then I felt and heard the whoosh and the blast. And then the first thing in my mind was to find my wife and daughters, but people were pulling me to the side to get out of danger or -- because I was bleeding, and I wanted to make sure I was safe. And I kept saying I need to find wife and daughters, and then they put me into an ambulance, and I was sitting there for a few minutes while getting other people. Then I got out and said I have to find my wife and daughters. It was very distressing. I had no idea how they were doing.</s>HEMMER: Mike Hanna, live in Jerusalem, thanks.