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| Kalandia perpetrators arrested |
| 2004-08-14 |
| Details of the three terrorists who orchestrated the Kalandia bombing attack on Wednesday, in which two Palestinians were killed and six border policemen injured, were released by the Shin Bet on Friday. Bassam Abid, a taxi driver who was arrested shortly after the explosion, supplied security officials with information that led to the arrest of Muhammad Dieb Ayush, on Thursday. Both are residents of Arabe near Jenin. Late Thursday night security forces arrested Wael Nabil Nuirat, 29, of Metalon, in Samaria who was caught hiding out in a mosque in the Ibn Jabel neighborhood in A-Ram. The three told officials that Zakaria Zubeidi and Muhammad Khalifa supplied them with the bomb and instructed them to perpetrate an attack in Haifa or any other major Israeli city. The three set out from Jenin on the day of the attack in two taxis. The bomb and a baby carriage they had purchased were to be used in the attack. The bomb was to be concealed in the baby carriage and smuggled through the checkpoint. The three wised that IDF troops and border policemen will not search the unsuspicious carriage. When they reached the Kalandia checkpoint they began removing the bomb to place it in the baby carriage. At the same time security forces raised security in the area after receiving warnings that terrorists are planning an attack in Jerusalem. Deterred by the large presence of security forces at Kalandia, the three decided to detonate the bomb as border policemen approached to inspect their suspicious behavior. After the attack Ayush and Nueirat fled in cars used to evacuate wounded Palestinians to Ramallah hospitals and a clinic in A-Ram. |
| Posted by:Fred |