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| Middle East |
| Force 17 biggy nabbed |
| 2002-07-11 |
| Abdel-Raheem Al Nubani, a Colonel in Force 17, was apprehended by Israeli troops north of Ramallah. Al Nubani is the highest-ranking member of Force 17, to have been arrested to date. He was seized in the village of Nubani, around 20 kilometres (north of Ramallah, in an operation shortly after 2:00 am (2300 GMT Wednesday), Palestinian officials said. An elite Israeli unit backed by two armoured personnel carriers swooped on the village, they added. When I was in the army I always hated it when we did that. Swooping in APCs makes me carsick. Or maybe APCsick. Force 17, in case you've forgotten, is the Secret SS Yasser Arafat Liebstandart, set apart from the other myriad security forces. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |