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Posted on 08/15/2004 1:38:00 AM PDT by bunkerhill7
JPost.com » News » Security-Diplomacy » Terror cell... Aug. 13, 2004 22:13 | Updated Aug. 15, 2004 0:22 Terror cell hid bomb in stroller By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
The capture of a three-man terrorist cell has led to the revelation of plans for a massive attack in Haifa's Talpiot market. The three were arrested by security forces within 36 hours of Wednesday's Kalandiya bomb attack north of Jerusalem in which two Palestinians were killed and three border policemen seriously wounded.
The terrorists had purchased a baby carriage to conceal the bomb, but the large presence of security forces at the Kalandiya checkpoint caused them to detonate it prematurely. Two of the cell members attempted to escape detection by attending to Palestinian casualties.
With the arrest of the last cell member early Friday morning, Jerusalem Police lifted the high alert that had been imposed on the northern neighborhoods of the capital since Wednesday afternoon.
Bassam Mustafa Asad Abid, 29, a taxi driver, was arrested by security forces just hours after the attack. Information obtained during his interrogation led to the arrest the following day of Muhammad Fathi Dieb Ayosh, 27, also a taxi driver. Both are residents of Arraba village near Jenin. A complex and intensive hunt led to the arrest of the third cell member, Wael Nabil Mahmud Nuriat, 29, of Matilon in Samaria. Nuriat was caught while hiding inside a mosque in A-Ram. Details released for publication on Friday by the Shin Bet revealed that Aksa Martyrs Brigades commanders in Jenin, Zakariya Zubeidi, 28, and Mahmud Asad Ibn Halifa, 25, supplied the terrorists with the 25-kilogram bomb and instructed them on how to detonate it.
The cell members said during questioning that they planned to smuggle Nuriat into Haifa, where he was to have set off the bomb in the Talpiot market. They had rented a car that was to pick up Nuriat at the Kalandiya checkpoint and take him with the bomb and the baby carriage to Haifa. To reach Kalandiya they set out in two taxis, the driver of the first watching for security forces.
As they began preparing at Kalandiya for Nuriat to continue to Haifa, security forces received a specific warning that terrorists in the vicinity of Kalandiya were planning to launch an attack inside Israel. Jerusalem Police and security forces raised the alert in the area and set up roadblocks on main highways and increased patrols in northern Jerusalem.
The terrorists realized that the large presence of security forces in the area would prevent them from carrying out their plans and they placed the bomb in the baby carriage, leaving it near the Kalandiya checkpoint. When the border policemen approached the carriage, the terrorists detonated the bomb.
I hope the cops pull through. Death to terrorists.
If they put that much effort into actually producing something good... oh well, they have no idea what 'good' is.
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Planning and executing the murder and mayhem of small children is only funny to a psycopath.
It is only "crazy" to continue to put up with murderers when the problem could have been properly dealt with years ago.
That graphic pretty much covers it.
Good cartoon. That really does show the difference between right and wrong.
Nope, they did that last year. A "pregnant" Arab tried to walk through the checkpoint. She was about to give birth to a 8 pound nail bomb...
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ohh- I remember now
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