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| Tanzim cell from Nablus carried out TA Bombing |
| 2003-01-06 |
| Sunday's double suicide bombing in Tel Aviv that left at least 22 people dead, was carried out by a Tanzim cell from the West Bank city of Nablus, head of research in Military Intelligence, Brigadier General Yossi Kuperwasser said Monday at a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. The MI commander said that the cell was also responsible for the terror attacks in recent months in Tel Aviv's old central bus station, the Kfar Sava mall, kibbutz Metzer and Beit She'an. Kuperwasser told the committee that there was a serious dispute among Fatah members on carrying out suicide attacks inside Israel. He said that Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat was maneuvering between the moderate Fatah factions that are opposed to suicide bombings inside the 1967 Green Line border, and the more extreme factions. According to Kuperwasser, the Palestinians were still vigorously building the terror infrastructure, and therefore it was hard for the more moderate groups to tone-down the Palestinian populations' support for terror. Also moderates tend to turn up dead "Everything that happens in Fatah-Tanzim is directly connected to Arafat, who meets with them and finances their operations, " Foreign Minister Shaul Mofaz told the committee Monday. He said that there was direct correlation between the lifting of the curfews in the West Bank city of Nablus over a week ago and the Tel Aviv suicide bombing. Mofaz said that in his opinion Arafat would soon be replaced as PA leader. "It is only a matter of time until Arafat no longer remains where he is. As long as Arafat heads the pyramid, there is no chance Palestinian terror and violence will stop." Sounds like a plan to me |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 James Taranto in Best of the Web today noted that Arafat's PA HAD made an arrest: "Arafat's Palestinian Authority has made an arrest in connection with the murders, the Jerusalem Post reports: "The Palestinian Authority's security forces arrested al Jazeera TV correspondent in the Gaza Strip, Seif al Din Shahin, for reporting on the Fatah claim of responsibility for the double suicide bombings in Tel Aviv." Arafat won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994." |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-01-06 17:50:41 |