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| Middle East |
| Hamas plotted poisoning of diners at major cafe |
| 2002-09-10 |
| Source is World Tribune... The usual warning. Israeli officials arrested three Palestinians charged with involvement in a Hamas plot to poison diners in one of the city's largest cafes. Israeli officials said the Palestinians planned to place poison in the food and drinks served in the prominent downtown Cafe Rimon. The cafe is located on a street that had been rocked by several Palestinian suicide bombings over the last year. That's not very comforting... The Palestinians, residents of Jerusalem in their early twenties and who worked in such Israeli institutions as the Hebrew University, were said to have contacted Hamas and offered to carry out a suicide bombing at the cafe. They told the Islamic movement in messages over the Internet that one of the three was a short-order cook in the restaurant. Officials said Hamas ordered the Palestinians to abandon a suicide attack and instead poison diners at the cafe. "Don't take it so hard, Mahmoud. We'll let you explode later, don't worry... Hey! It's okay to cry!... (Cheeze! Why do I always have to be the one to give 'em the bad news?)" Hamas directed the Jerusalem cell on how to obtain and prepare tasteless and odorless poisons. They said the attackers planned to insert didoxin, a medicine which in large amounts can lead to heart failure. But the cell was said to have encountered difficulties in following Hamas's instructions. At that point, the cell again offered to send a suicide bomber to destroy the cafe. "Well, to hell with it then. If you guys can't carry out a simple mass poisoning, we'll send somebody else ever to explode..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |