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| Palestinians captured en route to attack against arms warehouse |
| 2002-06-26 |
| According to Jane’s Foreign Report, six Palestinians arrested earlier this week near Beit Shemesh were en route to a suicide attack against an Israeli arms warehouse in which nuclear weapons and Jericho surface-to-surface missiles are stored. Jane’s reported Wednesday that the planned attack was thwarted as a result of information received by Shin Bet and by a large-scale manhunt that resulted in the capture of the six late on Monday. "Within Israel's defense establishment, officials are denying this morning that security information of this nature was indeed received," Israel Army radio said. Foreign news reports have said in the past that Jericho missiles and nuclear warheads and other devices were stored in underground bunkers near Moshav Zecharia, not far from Beit Shemesh. After the capture of the Palestinians, Jerusalem District Police chief, Mickey Levi told reporters that the capture "averted a major tragedy." That statement could be taken to back up the Jane's article, or it could simply that the patrons of a half dozen discos were spared. I don't imagine an Israeli nuclear weapons facility would be easy to penetrate. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |