Terrorist aftermath

Here’s an article by Bruce Hoffman on what follows on suicide bombings in Jerusalem – the clean-up, amongst other aspects:

Listening in on these alerts, or receiving notification on their pagers, are the devoutly religious members of ZAKA, a nongovernmental organization whose complete name means “Identification of Disaster Victims” and whose self-proclaimed purpose is to “rescue, save, and be part of the spiritual justice of truth” – that is, to deal with the tiny bits of bone, tissue, teeth, fingernails, and toenails scattered across the pavement and splattered against nearby cars, windows, walls, lampposts, commercial advertisements, and municipal signs.

(Hat tip: SdeW.)

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