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Translation from Hebrew to English by me An Israeli calling himself Anubis was able to break into a number of internet websites belonging to the Palestinian Authority terrorist regime, PLO sources claim. Our reporter Haggai Hoberman reported PLO officials saying that the "hacker" didn't change anything in the content of the websites, but planted a page within the directory showing that he did indeed break into the website. The page has a shadow of a figure and above it is written "Anubis has .. you." Among the websites broken into were the Office of Foreign Affairs, Office of Communications, Office...

PARIS - France's audiovisual watchdog agency said Friday it has reached an accord with a Lebanese TV channel linked to the anti-Israel group Hezbollah that allows it to remain on the airwaves in France. The deal came after media regulator CSA had threatened to ban broadcasts by Lebanon's Al-Manar via a Paris satellite operator. Jewish groups complained the network had aired an anti-Semitic series. The regulator on Tuesday gave Al-Manar a license it requested to continue broadcasts through satellite operator Eutelsat into France and many other parts of Europe, the CSA said on its Web site Friday. The CSA took...

Washington - This weekend, anti-globalization and anti-war groups will count Hezbollah among their ranks as they come together to host a special conference in Beirut, Lebanon. The conference, entitled "Where Next for the Global Anti-War and Anti-Globalization Movements?" is expected to play host to about 200 representatives from dozens of protest and peace groups. Conference organizers said that five Lebanese organizations will form the conference's "host board," including Hezbollah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front and Fatah. During the conference, participants will mark the anniversaries of the Sabra and Shatila massacre of 1982, in which...

Hamas pledged revenge Tuesday for an Israel Air Force missile strike that hit a Hamas site in Gaza City around midnight Monday, killing 14 militants and wounding 30. All of the casualties were Hamas members, Israel Radio reported, and four of the wounded sustained critical injuries. The first 11 bodies identified all belonged to Hamas members in their 20s, none of them senior figures. The strike targeted a Hamas community center complex, including a building and an outdoor lot that the army says is used by the Hamas military wing for training. An Israel Defense Forces statement listed events that...

The leader of the Hizbullah group on Saturday rejected a UN resolution calling for his guerilla army to be dismantled, saying the world body's call served Israeli interests. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah also defended the presence of Syrian forces in Lebanon, a situation that began when Damascus deployed troops to Lebanon in 1976 during a civil war and has attracted recent criticism from the United States and France. "We don't want a withdrawal of Syrian forces at this time," Nasrallah told a Hizbullah rally in his south Beirut stronghold, saying the presence of about 20,000 Syrian soldiers had helped Lebanon consolidate...

The highest court in France has prevented a move by French officials to ban Hizbullah’s television station, giving the terror group two months to demonstrate that its Al-Manar broadcasts are not anti-Semitic. Haitham Manna, who heads France’s Arab Human Rights Commission, told Islam Online that the court decision was “a triumph over the pressures practiced by the Zionist lobby against the Arab channel.” The State Council (France’s highest administrative tribunal) gave Al-Manar until October 1 to declare its commitment to a charter of journalistic ethics, according to Islam Online. Manna, who is also a member of the Commission in Solidarity...

KABUL (Reuters) - A known Taliban guerrilla leader was killed by U.S.-led and Afghan forces after leading an ambush on a military convoy in eastern Afghanistan, a provincial security officer said on Thursday. The Taliban attacked the convoy on Wednesday in the district of Alishing in Laghman province, some 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Kabul. After a two-hour firefight near the village of Qala, the attackers fled leaving behind the body of Mullah Janan, a known Taliban military commander, Laghman's deputy security commander told Reuters. In another incident two Taliban fighters were captured in the Maruf district on the...

Two soldiers repairing an antenna on the roof of a fort on the Lebanese border were killed Tuesday by a Hezbollah sharpshooter. The attack came as the army was high alert following the death of a top Hezbollah official is a car bombing in Beirut on Monday, The two soldiers were communications technicians sent to make the repairs on the roof, without flak jackets. Sergeant Itai Iluz, 21, of Afula, and First Sergeant Avishai Kuriski, 24, of Upper Nazareth, were killed while trying to repair one of the antenna on the roof. Iluz will be laid to rest in his...

Heavy exchanges of fire between IDF forces and the Hezbollah have been reported on the northern border this morning (Friday). Early today, the Hezbollah fired Katyusha rockets, anti-tank missiles and mortar shells at IDF positions in the Mount Dov area. The Hezbollah attack lasted for more than half an hour. Meanwhile, the army responded with artillery fire and helicopter gunships were dispatched to the area. According to Lebanese sources, IAF fighter jets later attacked Hezbollah positions near four villages in south Lebanon. This marks the third incident on the northern border in recent days. Two days ago, IDF forces foiled...

(IsraelNN.com) The al-Aqsa Brigade of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization has announced the development of a longer range surface-to-surface rocket to be used in attacks against Israelis. According to the report, the rocket has a range of 55 kilometers (34 miles). According to correspondent Haggai Huberman, the “Shahidim Brigade” based in Jenin boasts the new rocket, adding the announcement was made in the el-Bureij area of Gaza during an event marking two years since the apprehension of Fatah Tanzim leader Marwan Barghouti and the infamous Jenin battle. The new rocket has been named “Eagle Eye” by the terror organization.

(IsraelNN.com) Hamas “politburo” leader Ahmed Meshal, who is in Syria, warned Hamas leaders in Gaza not to jump into the fire, explaining that while they are anxious to die as holy martyrs, they need not jump into the burning fire. His statements are understood as a warning for the terror organization’s leaders to maintain a low profile with the realization they are potential targets for the IDF in the ongoing counter-terrorism war.

GAZA, April 8 (Xinhuanet) -- A leader of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas on Thursday voiced his support for Iraqi insurgency against foreign occupation, calling Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and US President George W. Bush as "murderers." "The Palestinian people are fully supporting the Iraqi people," Abdel Aziz Ranteesi said in a demonstration in Gaza City, where hundreds of Hamas supporters marched in the streets. "Great and big greeting to Moqtada al-Sadr, we support you and God with you," Ranteesi said, referring to the radical Iraqi Shiite leader. He said that the hundreds of demonstrators "came here to...

A terrorist of the Fatah Al Aksa Brigades' in Jenin who planned to murder Israeli Ambassadors in Germany and China, poison water resevoirs, blow up a gas tank and bomb a wedding hall at Jerusalem's Hyatt Regency hotel was sentenced on Thursday in the Samaria Military Court to 18 years in prison. Alam Khader Mahmud Koka, 23, from Nablus, was also given an additional three-year suspended sentence that will go into effect after he serves his initial term. In reaching its decision, the court noted on Monday that none of Koka's intentions reached the planning stages or were close to...

Majdi Abu Khamis, a Hamas terrorist active in the Jenin area, was charged this morning in a Shomron military court with planning to assassinate Knesset Member and former Foreign Minister David Levy (Likud). The terrorist apparently used the cover of construction laborers in MK Levy's hometown of Beit She'an to reconnoiter the MK's habits and home. MK Levy told IDF Radio this morning, "The man who was captured and confessed had all of the details on my whereabouts, on my house; and he had even apparently suggested to other elements how best to carry out the plot." Among other terrorist...

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Jan 26 (Reuters) - A top official of the main Palestinian militant group, Hamas, has said it could declare a 10-year truce with Israel if the Jewish state withdrew from territory occupied since 1967. Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi told Reuters late on Sunday Hamas had come to the conclusion that it was "difficult to liberate all our land at this stage, so we accept a phased liberation". "We accept a state in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. We propose a 10-year truce in return for (Israeli) withdrawal and the establishment of a state," he said...

The Turkish al-Qaida cell that was responsible for twin suicide bombings against two synagogues, the British consulate and the HSBC in Istanbul, had planned to bomb an Israeli passenger ship which frequently sails between Israel and Turkey. Turkey's Milliyet newspaper reported Saturday that the Islamic terror group had originally intended to hit an Israeli ship, but changed its targets when the Israeli vessel deviated from its normal routine en route to dock at Turkey's Mediterranean port of Alanya. No reasonw as given for the route deviation. Harun Ilhan, a Turkish terrorist linked to Osama bin Laden and now under arrest,...

(IsraelNN.com) Celebrating the terror organization’s 16th anniversary over the weekend, Hamas officials vow to continue terror attacks “until Palestine is liberated”. Tens of thousands of “innocent Palestinians” joined in the anniversary events, supporting calls for continued attacks against Israeli targets.

Islamic Jihad leader in Hebron confesses to having contacted Jihad headquarters in Damascus

Hamas official: Every centimeter of Palestine is conquered land, therefore attacks against Israel will continue

Hamas condemns suicide attack in Riyadh that killed at least 18 people as harmful to Islam

IDF prevented two weeks ago a Hezbollah attempt to infiltrate into Israel from Lebanon to carry out a terror attack (Channel 1)

Palestinian Authority paying members of Al Aqsa Martyrs` Brigades armed group up to $50,000 a month (BBC)

Senior Fatah official says that each member of body`s central committee earns $20,000 a month (Israel Radio)

Kadoura Fares, one of three senior Fatah leaders who visited Washington recently, said on Saturday that the US offered to put pressure on Israel to dismantle the settlements if the Palestinian Authority cracks down on Hamas and other armed groups. Fares, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, said the offer was made by US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern affairs, David Satterfield – the only US official to meet the Fatah delegation. "He said the US will work towards dismantling the settlements if we dismantle the so-called terror groups," Fares said. "The proposal calls for halting...

Palestinian Prime Minister-designate Ahmed Qurei asked Arafat's ruling Fatah movement to choose candidates for up to 16 of 24 Cabinet posts, a decision that appears to grant Arafat significant control over the composition of the new Cabinet. "Fatah institutions will choose the members of the government, in consultation with President Arafat," said legislator Hani al-Hassan. Fatah legislators met Monday to come up with candidates for Cabinet posts. The outgoing prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, widely known as Abu Mazen, had come under constant criticism from Fatah, in part because the party felt it was not sufficiently represented in his Cabinet. In...

Hamas officially takes responsibility for attacks Tue., says group `capable of reaching the depths of our occupied land` (AP)

Staff-Sergeant Roi Oren, 20, from Moshav Udim near Netanya, was killed early Friday morning in a battle with Palestinian terrorists in a refugee camp near Nablus. Oren will be laid to rest this afternoon at 15:30 in Udim's cemetary. Oren belonged to the IDF's elite naval commando unit Shayetet 13, which entered the Askar refugee camp east of Nablus on the West Bank at 4:30 A.M. to arrest wanted Hamas terrorists. Two top Hamas bombmakers were killed during the raid. The operation was directed at capturing senior Hamas fugitives who were located in the three- storey building in the camp,...

CANBERRA: Australia has listed the Iraq-based Ansar al-Islam group as a terrorist organization under Australian law, citing its alleged links to al-Qaeda, Attorney-General Daryl Williams said on Thursday. "Ansar al-Islam is based in northeastern Iraq and is dedicated to assisting al-Qaeda in establishing an Islamic caliphate throughout the world," Williams told the Parliament. He said the group is a Kurdish Sunni Islamic extremist organisation and is part of Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda global network. Australian intelligence agencies are "almost certain" the group was responsible for a suicide bombing in the north Iraq town of Sayed Sadiq on Saturday that killed...