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Israel concerned IS making inroads among Bedouins
2016-01-01
[IsraelTimes] Security services mark increased identification among Israelis in Negev with jihadists; fear terror attacks -- report

Israeli security forces are reportedly concerned about increased Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 activity among Bedouins in the Negev and fear that members of the group -- who are Israeli citizens -- will carry out terror attacks.

According to a report in the Haaretz daily on Wednesday, the Shin Bet security service is more worried about the threat posed by Israeli terror cells aligned with the Islamic State than by the jihadi groups in the Sinai Peninsula and on the Syrian Golan Heights.

Last week, the Shin Bet busted a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, cell that planned to carry out suicide and boom-mobileings against Israelis. One of the cell members, Fahdi Daoud Muhammad Abu Qaian, a 19-year-old Bedouin Israeli from the Negev, agreed to actually carry out an attack, the Shin Bet said.

During Abu Qaian's interrogation he revealed to officers that he agreed in October to either carry out a suicide kaboom with an explosive vest or drive an exploding car into some Israeli target. According to Haaretz, Abu Qaian admitted that apart from his Hamas membership, he supported the Islamic State and was linked to Salafist groups in the Bedouin village of Hura.
In other words, he was drawing at least three salaries, possibly more, not to mention multiple life insurance policies. His mother must be very pleased at his thoughtfulness.
In October, a Bedouin Israeli killed an IDF soldier and maimed 11 in a shooting attack in the Beersheba bus station. A friend of the killer later said the terrorist was enamored of the Islamic State jihadist group.

The Shin Bet has also announced numerous arrests of Bedouin would-be jihadists in the past two years, including several teachers, and two Bedouin doctors. A Bedouin Israeli was also reportedly killed while fighting in the ranks of the Islamic State in September 2014.
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