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| Overnight raids in West Bank net two senior Hamas members, wannabe knife attacker nabbed in Beersheva | |
| 2016-05-19 | |
| [IsraelTimes] IDF confiscates a ’dragon’ musket in West Bank Israeli troops tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! 16 Paleostinian suspects, including two senior Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, members, in raids around the West Bank Tuesday night and seized what appears to be an antique muzzle-loaded blunderbuss from a house in Hebron, the army said.
Kabaha, a former Hamas minister of prisoners, was arrested from his home in Jenin, according to the Ynet news site. Nasif, a senior member of the organization, has been in and out of Israeli prisons for decades. He was picked up in Nablus. While on a raid in Hebron, soldiers from the Nahal Infantry Brigade uncovered the vintage flintlock musket and confiscated it. The dragon, which is the technical term for a blunderbuss pistol, was “handed over to security forces,” the army said in a statement. It was not clear if the dragon seized by Nahal soldiers was still in working condition, an IDF spokesperson said. Blunderbusses, which were used primarily in the 18th century, feature a smooth bore, making them highly inaccurate, and can only be loaded with one round at a time. In order to reload the weapon, a shooter needs to clean the rifle, reload it with gunpowder by hand and then a new cotton-wrapped bullet is pushed down the barrel with a ramrod.m Its slow reloading and inaccuracy forced the blunderbuss out of use by the mid-19th century. The 16 Paleostinians placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! overnight came from villages and cities around the West Bank, including Hebron, Nablus, Jenin, Abu Dis, Beit Fajjar, Beit Umar and the Paleostinian village of Tekoa, which is adjacent to a Jewish settlement of the same name. Police nab man at Beersheba bus station with knife [IsraelTimes] Police say a man in his 20s is locked away Please don't kill me! after he is spotted at the entrance to Beersheba bus station with a knife in his bag. The man, from an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev, flees the bus station when security guards try to detain him, and is apprehended after a police chase. The suspect is taken in for questioning by police. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Don't think many blunderbusses used ball ammo. Nails, scrap iron, etc. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-05-19 10:34 |