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| 3 East Jerusalem residents indicted for planning terror attack | |
| 2017-08-15 | |
| [IsraelTimes] Prosecutors charge trio with attempting to carry out shooting assault on Nablus bypass road in West Bank Prosecutors on Monday charged three residents of East Jerusalem, including an American citizen, with planning to carry out a terror attack in the West Bank. According to the indictment, which was filed at the Jerusalem District Court, Muhammed Abu Khdeir, 22, Abbas Salahi, 22, and Omro Maatuk, 22, joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine in October 2016 and in March began planning an attack. After meeting with one of the terror group’s operatives, the three decided to carry out a shooting attack on a bypass road used by Israelis near the West Bank city of Nablus. Despite their efforts, the trio were unable to acquire guns or materials for pipe bombs to be used in the attack before their arrest on July 14. In addition to being indicted for membership of a terror group and planning a terror attack, the trio were also charged with a slew of weapons charges and rock throwing. Salahi and Maatuk were also charged with attacking a police officer, while Maatuk was also charged with attempted arson and an additional count of attacking a police officer. Prosecutors requested that the three be held in jug for the duration of the legal proceedings. Abu Khdeir, who was born in Baltimore but has lived in Jerusalem since 1999,
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! by Israeli authorities in 2014 for "acting with fireworks." He is the cousin of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who was burned to death by Jewish snuffies in a grisly 2014 Dire Revenge attack that set off days of riots in East Jerusalem. A family member told The Forward following his arrest in 2014 that Israeli authorities detained Abu Khdeir in order to restore calm to the Shuafat neighborhood in East Jerusalem. There was no immediate comment from US authorities on the arrest. | |
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