NOTHING TO SEE, NOTHING TO SEE – AT 9:08 A.M. ET:  The war on terror is over, isn't it?  Isn't that what Field Marshal Obama has told us?  Yeah, right.  From The Times of Israel, this morning: 

A tractor driven by a Palestinian man rammed into a bus in central Jerusalem early Monday afternoon, close to the “seam” between the western and eastern parts of the city

A male pedestrian approximately 30 years old was run over by the tractor as it headed toward the bus and was killed. The tractor driver, identified as East Jerusalem resident Muhammed Naif El-Ja’abis, turned the bus over onto its side during the attack, making several efforts to do so before he succeeded. The bus driver as well as five others were lightly hurt.

Police said the attack, which took place at the end of Shmuel Hanavi Street, near the Olive Tree Hotel, was nationalistically motivated.

A police officer and Prisons Service official who realized what was happening ran up to the tractor and fired a volley of shots at the terrorist as he sat in the cab and killed him, Jerusalem police chief Yossi Pariente said.

The tractor driver was identified by Palestinians on social media as Muhammed Naif El-Ja’abis from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber.

Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said the terrorist was known to the authorities from a previous incident, and that his family was being questioned.

COMMENT:  We have had incidents like this around the world, quickly suppressed by the "let's move on" elements of the media.   In 2007 two Islamists plowed a Jeep Cherokee loaded with propane canisters into the main terminal at Glasgow International Airport.  In the United States there was an attempt to run down students at a southern university, but the incident was barely reported. 

Terrorism is growing, not diminishing.  Most attempts will fail, but some perpetrators will get through.

August 4,  2014