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| 3 Jerusalem Arabs arrested for assisting in #2 bus attack |
| 2003-10-08 |
| Jpost - Reg req’d Three Jerusalem Arabs with suspected Hamas ties are under arrest for assisting in the implementation of the two most recent Jerusalem bus bombings, and planning to help carry out three additional attacks, police announced Wednesday. Fifth column arabs huh? The three suspects, who were apprehended last month in a joint Shin Bet-police sting operation, were enlisted by Hamas operatives in the West Bank city of Hebron, and instructed to garner information about preferred sites of attacks in Jerusalem where large numbers of people congregated. Infiltrated the groups hmmmm? A court-imposed gag order on the case which had been in place since their arrests was lifted Wednesday afternoon. The three Jerusalem Arabs, residents of the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi Joz, and A-Ram who carried blue Israeli ID cards, are suspected of assisting the bomber that blew up bus 2 on August 19, as well as the previous city bus bombing on bus 14, on June 11. Twenty-three people were killed in the bus 2 attack, the most lethal bombing in the city since the outbreak of violence three years ago, while seventeen people were killed in the bus 14 bombing. Their plans to help organize at least three additional attacks were thwarted with their arrest, and the IDF’s killing of their Hamas operatives in Hebron. The three men, who have confessed to the charges against them during their interrogations, will be indicted in the coming weeks, police said. and jailed forever? |
| Posted by:Frank G |