Boston – Doctor Credits Israelis With Helping Set Up Disaster Team

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    The aftermath of a bomb blast near the finish line on Boylston Street, the scene after the bomb blasts at the 117th running of the Boston Marathon in Boston, USA, 15 April 2013.  At least two people are confirmed dead and dozens injured in two powerful explosions that occurred near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. US President Barack Obama vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice as an investigation was launched.  EPA/STUART CAHILL / THE BOSTON HERALD Boston – Hours following a pair of blasts at the Boston Marathon that left 2 dead and up to 100 wounded according to reports, a chief doctor at the hospital where many of the patients are being treated credited Israelis with teaching his team how to respond to such disastrous attacks.

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    “About two years ago in actual fact we asked the Israelis to come across and they helped us set up our disaster team so that we could respond in this kind of manner,” said Alastair Conn, Chief of Emergency Services at Massachusetts General Hospital, responding to a question about the preparedness of his staff to handle trauma on this scale.

    Earlier in the interview Conn was asked, “Would you characterize these as almost something you would see in a military setting?”

    “Oh absolutely, absolutely this is like a bomb explosion that we hear about in the news in Baghdad, or Israel or some other tragic place in the world,” he responded.


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    11 years ago

    Let’s just continue to send billions of our dollars and sophisticated weaponry to the Arab countries so that they can repay us by blowing us up. It is not only Israel and Israelis that they are out to destroy and decimate. Why do so many continue to be in denial?

    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    11 years ago

    Just keep on opening our doors without proper REAL questions!! You will have this again and again!! Our open door policy ST—S!! The politicians just want votes!!

    jack-l
    jack-l
    11 years ago

    No matter what the feds find and they will eventually figure it out .just like bengazi . the press release will say that at this time they dont know if this violence was of domestic or foreign origin.
    no concrete proof that it radical muslim terrorist. (that description isnt allowed anymore) `siliar to noit having concrete proof on irans bomb development either.

    and that they welcome the messages of condolence and empathy from the muslim world
    giving an example of the official press anouncements already received from the muslim brotherhood, al qaeda of pakistan, might have been the taliban in pakistan dont remember, andof course the nice guys in somalia .
    It brings to mind the picture, if anyone remembers, of arafat giving blood for 911 victims.
    oy america what happened to you?