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| Boomer controller nabbed |
| 2002-05-07 |
| Security agents have captured the mastermind of the April 12 suicide bombing on Jerusalem’s Jaffa Road near the Mahaneh Yehuda market. Six died and 84 were wounded in the attack. Security sources said Moataz Abdullah Himoni, 21, a member of Fatah’s Aksa Martyrs Brigade from Hebron, was captured on April 25 during Operation Defensive Shield. He told interrogators he recruited the suicide bomber, Andaleeb Taqataqah, 17, of Beit Fajar, between Bethlehem and Hebron. He said that he recruited her through a member of a terror squad he had assembled. Himoni told interrogators that Marwan Zaloum, a senior Tanzim leader in Bethlehem, supplied him with the bomb. A few days before the bombing Himoni videotaped Taqataqah. She wore black and held a Koran. Himoni said he told his fellow cell members the bombing would take place in Haifa, but his true intention was to dispatch her to Jerusalem. Two days before the bombing, Himoni and Taqataqah met with Zaloum, who explained to her how to operate the bomb, which was made up of three plastic pipes and a battery. Zaloum hid it inside a woman’s purse. Zaloum was killed killed two weeks ago in a targeted killing. He's now trying to explain to Andaleeb why Paradise is so blasted hot, and he's trying to figure out why each and every one of his 72 virgins has teeth where he never expected teeth to be. Sharp ones, too. And big. Very big... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |