[Arab News] Security guards captured a Palestinian who broke into the Turkish Embassy in Israel Tuesday trying to take hostages and demanding asylum, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement.Has anybody ever heard of a hostage-taker being granted asylum other than for reasons of the state getting its hands on him preparatory to having him beaten and jugged? Anyone? Bueller?
The attacker, wounded by gunfire, was still inside the building six hours after he broke in, with Israeli police and rescue services kept outside by Turkish officials.
JPost sez he's been moved to a hospital, spitting and cursing, under police custody.
| "I have two hostages," he said in Hebrew. "I will blow up the embassy. ... If they don't let me leave this country now I will burn down the whole building. I will burn everything. I will burn the cars, the doors I will break down the doors. I will break everything." |
The embassy guards, on the other hand, were armed with guns that turned out to be real.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor identified the attacker as Nadim Injaz, a Palestinian from the West Bank town of Ramallah. Israeli police said Injaz was recently released from prison after serving time for an attack on the British Embassy four years ago, also to seek asylum.
He's a loop-loop, but he's a consistent loop-loop.
Channel 2 TV played a recording of a phone call it said came from the attacker. "I have two hostages," he said in Hebrew. "I will blow up the embassy. ... If they don't let me leave this country now I will burn down the whole building. I will burn everything. I will burn the cars, the doors I will break down the doors. I will break everything." A lawyer who said he spoke to Injaz by phone told Israel Radio that the hostages, the consul and his wife, had escaped.
"Over there! Is that Elvis?"
"Where?"
"Run, honey!"
Injaz said he admired Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
"He has lovely hips."
"I love him and I respect him," he said.
"I want to go steady with him!"
The Turkish leader "should give me political asylum against these murderers the Zionists, the murdering Jews," he added, linking the incident indirectly to recent tensions between Israel and Turkey.
As far as we can tell, and we've been paying attention, no Jews have taken anybody hostage recently.
He also condemned Palestinian leaders, saying President Mahmoud Abbas "should die" for stealing funds.
That sounds fair. Yasser did.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters, "there is nothing to worry about at the embassy, everything is under control."
"Nothing to see here. Move along."
He said Injaz was in good condition. He did not indicate whether the Palestinian would be handed over to Israeli authorities.