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| IDF nabs Fatah murderer |
| 2007-05-29 |
| A seven-year hunt came to an end on Monday when an elite Border Police unit nabbed a senior commander of Fatah's Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades in Ramallah who is held responsible by Israel for the deaths of numerous Israelis. Security officials said that Khaled Shawish, head of the Tanzim terror group in Ramallah, was behind the shooting attack that killed Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, son of Rabbi Meir Kahane, and his wife Talia in December 2002. Shawish is also held responsible for dozens of additional attacks, including suicide bombings in Jerusalem as well as other shooting attacks on roads in the area that left a total of eight Israelis dead and dozens wounded. In March 2002, Shawish dispatched a suicide bomber who detonated his explosives on King George Street in Jerusalem, killing three people and wounding 35. In February 2002 he dispatched a suicide bomber who wounded two people. Officials said that Shawish, 36, had been wanted by the IDF since 2000 and had spent most of his time in hiding near the Mukata, the Palestinian Authority government compound in Ramallah. In 2001, Shawish was severely wounded during clashes with the IDF and even though he survived remained disabled. Security officials said that Shawish was a dominant force within the Palestinian terror infrastructure and added that his arrest was a success for the IDF and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency). They said that the Tanzim leader was also an expert bomb maker who taught terror operatives how to manufacture explosives as well as explosive suicide belts and how to lay roadside bombs. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #6 The Brigades, founded by Arafat, largely considers the late PLO leader's resting place to be a sacred |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-05-29 18:32 |
| #5 There was a bit more to this story posted on Worldnetdaily. Link Terror leader arrested having car sex near Arafat's grave According to Israeli security officials and Palestinian sources in Ramallah speaking to WND, the terrorist was arrested while having car sex just a few hundred feet from late PLO leader Yasser Arafat's gravesite. Khaled Shawish, an officer in Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Force 17 presidential guards, was captured by undercover Israeli police forces following scores of shooting attacks he is suspected of carrying out. Shawish, who doubles as the Ramallah chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group, previously boasted of involvement in a West Bank shooting attack in December 2000 that killed Israeli ultranationalist leader Benjamin Kahane and Kahane's wife, Talya. The Brigades is the declared "military wing" of Abbas' Fatah party. After the Kahane murder, Shawish was extended refuge by Arafat to live in the late PLO leader's Ramallah compound, widely known as the Muqata. Arafat is buried at the entrance to the Muqata. Shawish continued the past seven years to live in the Muqata, from which, according to Israeli security officials, he directed the Brigades to carry out scores of shootings against Israelis driving on West Bank roads. Several years ago Shawish sustained an injury during a gun battle with the Israel Defense Forces and has since been confined to a wheelchair, although he is still able to drive. According to Israeli security officials and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades sources in Ramallah, Shawish was arrested after the Israeli police stormed his jeep, which was parked in a lot outside the Muqata, about 200 feet from Arafat's grave. The sources said at the time of his arrest, Shawish was having intercourse in the back seat of his jeep with a Palestinian woman, whose identity is being withheld by WND. The woman was not his wife. The Brigades, founded by Arafat, largely considers the late PLO leader's resting place to be a sacred site. |
| Posted by: Delphi 2007-05-29 12:08 |
| #4 So, gorb, where do you suggest that we apply that thing? My guess would be to the butts of our congresscritters. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-05-29 11:18 |
| #3 Border Police unit nabbed a Since when the media begin to dignify these guys? Oh, you say they always have. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-05-29 08:41 |
| #2 |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-05-29 05:17 |
| #1 an elite Border Police unit ApraPoe of nothing... any way to kick up the coolness of the BorderPatrol? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-05-29 03:14 |