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Source: http://www.thehill.com/uncommon_lives/040704.aspx
Capitol Police Officer "Blown Away" by Israel Trip
(TheHill) Sarah Bouchard - Capitol (D.C.) Police Cmdr. Larry Thompson was one of 14 U.S. law-enforcement officials on a five-day trip to Israel in January organized by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a Washington-based think tank. Thompson said he was amazed by the capacity of law-enforcement officials to act without bias toward Arabs. "What really got me and surprised me was the impartiality with which they carried out their jobs" in the face of "a clear group of individuals trying to disrupt their way of life." Thompson described a married couple that spoke about their life as police officers. After being informed by her husband one day that a known suicide bomber was in Jerusalem, the woman boarded a bus to go to work. "The suicide bomber gets on the bus and blows himself up," Thompson said. The woman survived that attack and still works as a police officer.