Posted on 09/23/2002 10:59:22 AM PDT by truthandlife
A delegation of senior IDF officers has left for Washington in order to brief the CIA on a Palestinian terror cell discovered in Israel that had trained at military camps in Iraq.
The cell, composed of three members who underwent terrorist training in Iraq, was sent to Israel in order to gather information, but might have also had orders to carry out attacks.
The cell members were arrested after trying to return to the West Bank from Iraq. The three belong to a small group called the Arab Liberation Front, which receives orders from Iraq.
About one year ago, another Arab Liberation Front cell, operating out of the West Bank city of Ramallah, was captured after planning to carry out an attack at Ben-Gurion International Airport. It seems that the current group was also planning on carrying out an attack at the airport.
Security sources say that this is not the first time that Iraq has come up within the context of Palestinian terror. In the past, Iraq has been known to be involved in promoting Palestinian terror, in addition to funneling funds and equipment to Palestinian terror organizations.
Saddam openly promotes suicide bombings by offering a $25,000 reward to the families of suicide bombers. In other words, he wages war on Israel using suicide terrorists as proxies. Hmm, I wonder who else he might be waging war on using suicide terrorists as proxies.
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