| Submit your comments on this article |
| Middle East |
| Suicide bombers caught on their way to Yokne’am school |
| 2003-12-03 |
| JPost Reg Req’d Three days after Syrian President Bashar Assad called for renewed talks with Israel, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, whose offices are in Damascus, sent two suicide bombers to attack Israeli schoolchildren in Yokne’am and more Israelis in the northern city of Beit She’an. Assad spoke, and someone took him seriously? How naive A senior security official told Channel 1 TV news Wednesday night that Islamic Jihad headquarters in Damascus issued the order to its Jenin cells to carry out the attacks. The order was given in the past few days, the source said. compromised communications, huh? A massive security alert in the North was lifted on Wednesday afternoon after the two Palestinians allegedly planning a suicide bombing at a school in Yokne’am were captured by soldiers in the West Bank. "stick em up" "don’t kill us! we were just trying to be suicide bombers....er..." The arrests of the two – both members of the Palestinian Authority security services and affiliated with Islamic Jihad – came after a daylong alert imposed on the Wadi Ara area. Security sources said the two had planned an attack on a school near the commercial center of Yokne’am and another in Beit She’an. They said that the attempt to attack a school was a "serious escalation." with serious consequences? If you live next to an IJ honcho in West Bank, Gaza, or Damascus - I’d take a couple week vacation ..after getting more home insurance One security source confirmed that Munir Rabiah, 23, of Gaza City, and Morad Zeitoun, 20, of Zbubeh, near Jenin, are both members of the PA security forces. more booming PA coppers? They revealed to security officials the whereabouts of a 10-kg. explosives belt that Rabiah was to have worn in the attack in Yokne’am, the source said. 22 lbs? Yikes! A Shin Bet source said the two men left Jenin Tuesday morning and set out for Bardaleh, where they planned to cross into Israel. "They told investigators that they had chosen the location as there is no security fence in the area," he said. At about 2 p.m., acting on an intelligence tip-off, security forces arrested Rabiah after surrounding a mosque in the Israeli-controlled part of Bardaleh. Palestinians reported there were 20 worshipers inside the mosque when it was surrounded by troops, who entered the village and imposed a curfew. "come out killers!" Zeitoun had been arrested by security forces in a sweep of the Jenin area late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning. According to the source, he planned to perpetrate a suicide bombing in Beit She’an. Security officials noted that there are a number of different cells affiliated with the Islamic Jihad and the Fatah Tanzim in Samaria which continue to plan attacks. On Wednesday, the security establishment registered 42 warnings of planned attacks. During the high alert, the Wadi Ara road was closed and roadblocks were set up in the area, causing severe traffic jams. |
| Posted by:Frank G |