Brutal attack on bus in Canada
July 31st, 2008
Man decapitates passenger aboard Greyhound bus in Manitoba
Grisly:
Garnet Caton, who was sitting in the seat in front of the victim, said he saw the attacker stab his seatmate, a young man sleeping with his headphones on.
Caton said he heard a “blood-curdling scream” and turned around to see the attacker holding a large “Rambo” hunting knife above the victim, “continually stabbing him in the chest area.”
“He must have stabbed him 50 times or 60 times,” said Caton.
“Like, just everywhere, arms, legs, neck, chest, guts, wherever he could swing it, he got it,” said Olmstead.
“It looked kind of like a scuffle or an argument, you know, and then somebody’s, like, ‘Knife! Knife! Run!’ so I was running up the alleyway, slapping people telling them to get going, move, get off the bus. I got pushed over, some lady got pushed over, I was just making sure everybody was OK, and we all got off the bus,” said Olmstead
As panicked passengers fled the bus, “the attacker was over top of the victim … continually cutting him. I think the victim was gone at that point,” Caton said.
Even more grisly:
“When we came back on the bus, it was visible at the end of the bus he was cutting the guy’s head off and pretty much gutting him up,” said Caton.
The attacker ran at them, Caton said, and they ran out of the bus, holding the door shut as he tried to slash at the trio.
When the attacker tried to drive the bus away, the driver disabled the vehicle, Caton said.
“While we were watching the door, he calmly walks up to the front with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us,” said Caton.
Police arrived “about 10 minutes after the attack began.”
July 31st, 2008 at 3:20 pm
This was TERRORISM. Notice that the bus was travelling from Edmonton, Alberta to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the attack didn’t occur until they were ready to arrive in Winnipeg. Winnipeg is only a few miles from the U.S. border. The idea was to get as close to the U.S. as he could, if not get into the U.S., then engage in the attack in front of a busload of people. This was another act of radical Islamic terrorism on North American soil. Beheading is the trademark of al-Qaeda.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Sheila: Do you have any evidence of that? I haven’t seen any. While what you say is certainly plausible, I would not consider what I’ve read and what you wrote to be conclusive in any way.