Posted on 12/22/2004 10:48:24 PM PST by Straight Vermonter
An Israeli-Arab planned to carry out a suicide bombing attack at an American-owned restaurant in Jerusalem together with his 16-year old fiancee shortly after their wedding, Israel's Shin Bet revealed today.
Ahmed Yakub Jazawi, 22, a Palestinian resident of the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu-Tor who was arrested last month by an undercover police unit, revealed to interrogators a plot to blow up a new Sbarro's pizza restaurant at Jerusalem's busy Jaffa Road pedestrian mall, the Shin Bet said.
Jazawi reportedly said he was recruited by a top Hamas leader in Hebron, Mutsab Hasalmon, who he knew from Abu Dis University.
Hasalmon had instructed Jazawi to conduct surveillance of the Jaffa Road area for the attack and to find other areas of vulnerability for future suicide bombings since Jazawi held an Israeli identification card that allowed him to pass through Jerusalem checkpoints.
When Jazawi revealed the plans to his fiancee, also a resident of Abu Tor, officials said she told him she would like to join him in carrying out the attack so they could "become martyrs together."
The couple decided to postpone their plans until after the wedding.
After Israel began construction of its West Bank security fence, which Hamas has credited with impeding its ability to carry out attacks, Palestinian terror groups increasingly have been turning to Arab-Israelis, who enjoy freedom of movement, to become suicide bombers.
Jerusalem ID cards afford residents the ability to pass through checkpoints, scout targets, drive terrorists to the site of an attack and smuggle bomb-making material past the security fence, officials say.
Four Arab residents of Jerusalem were arrested earlier this month for involvement in an east Jerusalem-based Hamas cell that allegedly helped carry out a suicide bombing at Jerusalem's Cafe Hillel, killing 7 Israelis and wounding more than 30.
"The involvement of east Jerusalem residents is not new," Jerusalem police chief Cmdr. Ilan Franco said. "It has increased in the past few years."
Amazing! You'd think the new bride would not want to "share" her new husband with all those virgins, so soon after getting hitched...
An Israeli-Arab planned to carry out a suicide bombing attack at an
American-owned restaurant in Jerusalem together with his 16-year old
fiancee shortly after their wedding, Israel's Shin Bet revealed today.>>>>>>>>
An Israeli-Arab with a bomb strapped on today.
An American-Arab tomorrow, in America with a bomb strapped on.
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