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| 11 Arab Israelis arrested |
| 2001-10-30 |
The police and the Shin Bet security service have, over the past month, arrested a group of Israeli Arabs from Haifa and the Galilee who are suspected of plotting a series of nationalist-religious terror attacks. One of the men who has been detained is the son of Mohammed Saker Hubeishi, the first Arab Israeli suicide bomber. During the course of the investigation, 11 people were taken into custody, but 5 were subsequently released. Three of the suspects have already been charged, while a fourth has been indicted for the murder of a Haifa prostitute. The investigation began immediately after Hubeishi's suicide bomb attack at the Nahariya train station that killed two civilians and a soldier on September 9. It's an essential tenet of guerrilla warfare to divide society into "us" and "them." Hubeishi apparently decided he wasn't part of "them." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |