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| PA arrests five senior PFLP heads for bank robbery... |
| 2003-02-26 |
| Palestinian security services apprehended five senior members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine earlier this week, who are suspected of carrying out an armed robbery at a private bank in the village of Beit Jala, west of Bethlehem. According to sources in Bethlehem, the men allegedly entered a branch of the "Al-Quds" bank with drawn weapons, and stole some $100,000 from the tellers there. Two hours after the robbery, a special Palestinian task force, composed of various Palestinian security forces, managed to apprehend the group. The members of the task force said that they were amazed to discover the identity of the five, especially G.P., who was considered one of the PFLP's more prominent leaders and a relative of Bethlehem's former intelligence chief. He is also considered close to the heads of the PFLP: Secretary-General Ahmed Sa'adat, who is held under arrest in Jericho, and Abed al-Rahim Maluch, held in Israel. In the PFLP, all the best people are in jug... According to a PFLP source, "the issue is embarrassing and difficult for all of us, but it has been transferred to the authority of the heads of the organization and we hope that it will be resolved soon." So far, the five have refused to return the money that they are accused of stealing. The men said that they intended to distribute the loot among the families of those killed in the intifada and those who have relatives imprisoned in Israel. "Yeah. We wuz gonna mail it to 'em from Paraguay..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 Politics, bulls**t!!! it's just another gang war over there. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-02-26 22:44:01 |
| #1 hmmm "Al-Quds" bank sounds very much like the shylock Arafat's organization, doesn't it? why that hook-nosed.....whoop! wrong enemy? or trying to fund the anti-Fatah civil war? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-02-26 20:47:02 |