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3 East Jerusalem men held in plot to kill Shas' Spiritual Leader
The Shin Bet security service has arrested three residents of East Jerusalem in connection with a suspected plot to assassinate Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, according to information released Sunday. East Jerusalem huh? Dissident Jews? Naahhhhh One of the three has already been charged and the other two are still undergoing questioning by Shin Bet agents. PliErs and panties... The three - French citizen Salah Hamuri, Mutsan Mohammed Yavsha and Moussa Mohammed Darweesh - are members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The cell belongs to the same East Jerusalem faction of the PFLP as those behind the murder of cabinet minister Rehavam Ze'evi in a Jerusalem hotel in October 2001. Nope....not Jews Ze'evi's killers, jailed in Jericho, had apparently given their blessing to the attack on the rabbi. The group had carried out surveillance of Yosef's Jerusalem residence in the Har Nof area of the capital and decided that it would be easier to carry out their attack as he was setting out from his house. The Shin Bet investigation revealed that after his release from jail last year, Hamuri made contract with members of the PFLP military wing and together they established their activities in East Jerusalem. The cell also maintained contact with senior PFLP members in Jerusalem and in the Jericho jail. In recent months, they began to gather weapons and ammunition and planned to carry out attacks in the streets of Jerusalem. Shin Bet agents also learned that Darweesh was the one who suggested to Hamuri that they target Rabbi Yosef. Darweesh apparently knew the location of the Shas spiritual leader's home from his time as a delivery boy for a grocery store in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of the capital. Security sources told Israel Radio that PFLP militants are looking for every opportunity to harm Israeli public figures. The dominant presence of the organization in East Jerusalem and the fact that East Jerusalem residents can easily access targets in the western part of the city imporve dramatically the organization's capabilities and increase its motivation to carry out such attacks, the sources said. Posted by: Saddam Hussein 2005-04-17 |
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