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Palestinians arrest Al-Qaeda suspects in West Bank
Palestinian security forces have for the first time arrested a suspected cell of Al-Qaeda sympathisers in the occupied West Bank, a senior officer said on Wednesday.Brigadier General Ibrahim Ramadan said the six young men arrested near the northern West Bank town of Jenin last week were carrying out military training but had not yet selected any targets to attack. "They considered themselves part of Al-Qaeda but did not have any contacts with Al-Qaeda leaders abroad," he said, announcing the arrests on Wednesday. "They all had shaved heads and long beards, Yep, that's them. Book 'em Aziz. and they consider both Fatah and Hamas to be infidels," he added, referring to the secular movement of Western-backed president Mahmud Abbas and the Islamist group ruling Gaza. Ramadan denied that Israeli security forces were involved in the arrests, which he said followed an investigation into a cache of homemade explosives found in the countryside outside Jenin. Posted by: ed 2010-02-11 |
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