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| Shin Bet foils plan to poison Jerusalem hospital's water |
| 2002-09-19 |
| The Shin Bet security service recently foiled a plan by some Gazan Islamic Jihad activists to poison the drinking water at one of Jerusalem's hospitals, a charge sheet filed at the Erez Junction military court reveals. The poisoner allegedly obtained an Israeli pass to enter the country for a medical examination at the hospital. Iyad Hassan Mohammed Salame, 18, from the Bureij refugee camp in Gaza, joined Islamic Jihad, whereupon he was immediately drafted to help with the poisoning mission by someone identified only as "Abu Mohammed". The plan called for Salame to go to Jerusalem for treatment at the hospital's ophthalmology department. He was then supposed to drop the poison, made from a combination of baking powder and an unnamed liquid poison, into the hospital's drinking water reservoirs. In return, he would be paid NIS 300. I think I have a pretty good imagination, but I don't think I can imagine anything more depraved than this... Nope. I'm thinking real hard, and nothing's happening... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |