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| Shots fired as PA arrests Hizb Ut-Tahrir official |
| 2009-12-23 |
| [Ma'an] Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces opened fire on a car driven by an official in the pacifist Islamist movement Hizb Ut-Tahrir on Monday night, officials said. Shots were fired at Maher Al-Jabari, one of Islamic Jihad's press officers, moments before he was arrested by PA security services near his office at the Palestine Polytechnic University in the West Bank city of Hebron. In a statement about the incident, Hizb Ut-Tahrir said Al-Jabari was also assaulted during the arrest. He is now being held at an unknown location. A PA security official told Ma'an that Al-Jabari failed to obey a police order to stop his car, and while trying to escape crashed his vehicle into three other cars. The source, who insisted on anonymity, said PA officers fired in the air to force Al-Jabari to stop, he was then arrested and taken to a detention center. The official also noted that there was a standing order to arrest Al-Jabari on sight. Last Thursday Hizb Ut-Tahrir reported that the PA surrounded Al-Jabari's house in Hebron in a bid to arrest him, but then left the area without doing so. Hizb Ut-Tahrir's mandate calls for the reestablishment of an Islamic caliphate in Arab countries but shuns the use of violence. The group does not recognize the PA's authority. The PA has clamped down on Islamist opposition throughout the West Bank since the take-over of Gaza by the Hamas government. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 the pacifist Islamist movement Hizb Ut-Tahrir Oh, oh! Pinocchio's nose just grew by 3 feet. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-12-23 01:21 |