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| PA security official: No coordination with Israel on Qaeda arrests |
| 2010-02-08 |
| [Ma'an] Ibrahim Ramadan, a Palestinian Authority Preventative Security official, denied on Sunday that Israel and Palestinian security forces coordinated the arrest of an Al-Qaeda cell in the West Bank. His comments follow reports in Israeli media that both the PA and Israeli security forces recently arrested members of radical Islamist groups with links to Al-Qaida and global jihadists in various parts of the West Bank. According to the Israeli daily Haaretz the largest arrests were made in the town of Qabatiya near Jenin, where six people were detained. "Those detained were unarmed and were arrested before they could carry out any attacks," the daily reported, having quoted a PA security source. Ramadan said that a Preventative Security spokesman would imminently comment on the media reports. |
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