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| Israel Says Foiled Islamist Attacks in West Bank |
| 2013-05-22 |
| [An Nahar] Israel's Shin Bet domestic spy agency said on Tuesday it had foiled planned attacks on Israelis by two Paleostinian Islamist groups in the Hebron area. It said that, in March, Shin Bet, army and police uncovered a nine-man Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, cell in the village of Bani Naim, south of the West Bank city, which planned to shoot dead an Israeli settler working in nearby fields. A statement said the men intended to take the victim's corpse as a bargaining chip to secure the release of Paleostinian prisoners held by Israel. It said they also had prepared an bomb which they intended to place in a settlement field. Separately, in March and April, agents incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! four Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... Death Eaters in Hebron who planned to shoot dead an Israeli soldier or civilian traveling in the area. They confessed under interrogation that they also intended to hold the body to lever a swap, the statement said, without saying explicitly that the two plots were connected. All the suspects were charged last month in a military court, it added. |
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