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Paleo with Doctors Without Borders Plotted to Kill Olmert

2007-05-17

A Palestinian from the Gaza Strip who works for the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders has been arrested for allegedly plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) revealed Thursday.

Mazab Bashir, 25, from Deir el-Balah began working with Doctors Without Borders five years ago.

On April 19, he confessed during a Shin Bet interrogation that for months, he had been collecting intelligence on senior Israeli officials - including Olmert and a number of Knesset members.

Bashir met with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in September 2006, and said that the assassination was meant to avenge the deaths of Palestinian civilians. Bashir also underwent arms training with the PFLP, and was picked to carry out the planned assassination.

He told the Shin Bet that he had collected information on the Internet to use to target MKs, but then realized that the MKs in question did not live in Jerusalem, the only Israeli city to which his permit granted him access. According to the officials, after the doctor realized that the security surrounding Olmert was impenetrable, Bashir decided in December 2006 to kill David Be'eri, head of the Elad organization, a group involved in purchasing Arab homes in Jerusalem's Old City.

Because in the end, any infidel will do.

That same month, he underwent combat training in the Gaza Strip in order to learn to kill without using weapons.

In January 2007, Bashir again entered Israel again on behalf of Doctors Without Borders, and began collecting information on Be'eri. He made additional trips to Jerusalem in February and March, and on April 18. He was arrested on April 19 and indicted Thursday in the Jerusalem District Court.

During his interrogation, Bashir said he had planned to return to Gaza to complete his combat training and learn, among other things, how to break necks. He said he intended to use his skills to kill Be'eri.

Gonna be a real ninja, huh?

Elad has increased Be'eri's security following the threats to his life.

Duncan Mclean, head of 'Doctors Without Borders' in the region, told Israel Radio, "I don't think embarrassed would be the right word."

Oh no, you'd never be embarrassed by one of your own trying to kill someone. I'm embarrassed for you.

"We are very sad for Bashir who has been working for us for almost six years. But we would like to make it very clear that we make a distinction between his professional work and what he does on his personal time in the sense that all our staff is hired for professional reasons and I don't think our organization can be held liable for every aspect of their life."

"So if he wants to kill Joooz on his own time, it's no skin off our fore."

Posted by:Frank G

#19 #15:The irony is that in this particular case, success would have hurt his own cause.

It depends on the cause he called his "own": Doctors without Borders, or the PFLP. Appears he chose the latter, rather than the former.

Posted by: Ptah 2007-05-17 15:16

#18 #15 The irony is that in this particular case, success would have hurt his own cause.

Islamic Parallel Universe

Posted by: RD 2007-05-17 14:05

#17 Differential calculus and orthogonal functions.

I actually took that class. Don't think I learned anything.

Posted by: Bobby 2007-05-17 13:07

#16 US3317, you are using logic and reason here. The whole concept of logic and reason are as foreign to paleos as calculus.

Posted by: wxjames 2007-05-17 13:01

#15 The irony is that in this particular case, success would have hurt his own cause.

Posted by: Snusoger Untervehr3317 2007-05-17 12:18

#14 Doubtful he was a doctor. The years of working for DWBs and what it takes to go thru med school don't add up to doctor.

Not necessarily. Many Euro and Asian countries have a system in which high school students are admitted directly to medical school. That's a five to seven year training program, depending on the country. He'd then do some graduate training (e.g., intern). He could have started med school at 16 and gotten into DWB towards the end of his training. DWB might have even sponsored the last year of training. I'll look into it.

Posted by: Steve White 2007-05-17 11:30

#13 I suspect the standards aren't too high for just about anything in Paleo land. Just need a boomer belt and religious zeal to get by.

Posted by: JohnQC 2007-05-17 11:01

#12 Moderate Muslims, just take the time to get to know them. That's all we ask.

Posted by: wxjames 2007-05-17 10:44

#11 John Q, maybe the Paleo healthcare system is less stringent on its certification? Maybe after a couple of rocket launches, a few burt of AK-47, and building a couple of homocide belts is all it takes to be a doctor? DWB should just bar ANY Arab doctor from its organization because they are not up to the credo.

Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2007-05-17 10:42

#10 You haven't understood. In fact he is a covert agent from the Mossad on a mission to kill Fath's, Hamas and Hezbollah's great hope.

Seriously, do you really think that Olmert is any good for Israel?

Posted by: JFM 2007-05-17 10:16

#9 Not unless he was Doogie Howser.

Never did watch that show.

(Answer: Doogie Howser was a TV show about a teenage genius medical doctor - finished med school before most kids got out of high school.)

Posted by: Bobby 2007-05-17 10:15

#8 Mazab Bashir, 25, from Deir el-Balah began working with Doctors Without Borders five years ago

Doubtful he was a doctor. The years of working for DWBs and what it takes to go thru med school don't add up to doctor.

Posted by: JohnQC 2007-05-17 10:07

#7 DWB is a French organization (Docteurs san Frontiers). Perhaps they turned a blind eye to his activities.

Posted by: PlanetDan 2007-05-17 09:38

#6 It seems to me the Israelis were on to this guy fairly early, watching where he went and who he talked to, and picked him up just as his plan went active.

Posted by: Seafarious 2007-05-17 09:06

#5 #1: "I wonder how many other sleepers work within these lib NGO's."

Probably easier to count how many don't, doc. :-(

Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-05-17 09:01

#4 I can't really blame DWB for this one. Infiltrating a volunteer NGO is about as hard as falling down.

Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-05-17 09:00

#3 "Paleo doctors", Darth?

Posted by: gromgoru 2007-05-17 08:34

#2 Paleo doctors without ~~borders~~ morals.

Posted by: DarthVader 2007-05-17 08:32

#1 But we would like to make it very clear that we make a distinction between his professional work and what he does on his personal time in the sense that all our staff is hired for professional reasons and I don't think our organization can be held liable for every aspect of their life."

Duncan, I would love to see you try this line of reasoning in a court of law. I'd say DWB's vetting process needs work. I wonder how many other sleepers work within these lib NGO's.

Posted by: doc 2007-05-17 08:22

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