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| Israel detains Islamic leader over Aqsa tension |
| 2009-10-07 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Israeli police detained the leader of the Islamic Movement on Tuesday over charges of incitement during recent days' tension in Jerusalem, raising fears of further violence. Sheikh Raed Salah was arrested during clashes between Palestinians and police in the neighborhood of Wadi Joz in Israeli-occupied east Jerusalem on the third day of sporadic violence in and around the Holy City. "He was arrested over his inflammatory statements in recent days and on suspicion of incitement," police spokesman Shmulik Ben-Rubi told AFP. Salah, who has been arrested several times and spent two years in Israeli prison, has repeatedly called in recent days for Muslims in Israel and the Palestinian territories to "defend" the al-Aqsa mosque against Israel. Several Israeli government ministers called for Salah's arrest and for the outlawing of his wing of the Islamic Movement, which boycotts Israeli parliamentary elections out of a refusal to recognize the Jewish state but runs several Israeli Arab town councils. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Just cut him up for spare parts or you'll be giving him and a hundred of his buddies back in a year or two. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-10-07 02:44 |