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| Arab Israeli Gets 25 Years for Tel Aviv Bus Bomb |
| 2014-03-11 |
| [An Nahar] A Tel Aviv court on Monday handed an Arab Israeli a 25-year prison term over the 2012 bombing of a bus during a major Israeli campaign in Gazoo. Mohammed Mafarja, 19, was sentenced three months after being convicted on charges of aiding the enemy during war, attempted murder, causing an kaboom and wounding 24 people. A resident of Taibe in central Israel, Mafarja boarded the Tel Aviv bus on November 21, 2012, and placed a bomb inside before getting off, according to the District Court. Shortly afterwards it was triggered remotely by a cellphone used by his accomplice Ahmed Moussa, a Paleostinian from the West Bank. The two had decided "to carry out an attack to end the war in Gazoo," which began when Israel killed Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, military commander Ahmed Jaabari on November 14, 2012, the court said in Monday's sentencing. The Gazoo conflict ended several hours after the kaboom with an Egyptian-brokered truce, in a development unrelated to the attack. The kaboom left two people in moderate-to-serious condition, while another eight people were lightly maimed and 14 more suffered from shock. The blast damaged the bus and vehicles nearby. The court also mentioned Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... hard boy Mohammed Assi who planned the attack. Assi was rubbed out during an Israeli attempt to arrest him near the West Bank city of Ramallah in October 2013. Moussa's trial, which is being heard in a military court, is ongoing. |
| Posted by:Fred |