Wednesday, July 9, 2008
These guys were part of the same terror ring responsible for the bomb belt found in Tel Aviv last September that was to be used in a Yom Kippur holiday attack. Haaretz: Gag order lifted: IDF troops arrested Hamas militants in May
A gag order was lifted Tuesday on the arrest of four Hamas militants in the West Bank city of Nablus in May, as a result of joint Israel Defense Forces-Shin Bet operations.
Israel claims the detainees were planning terrorist attacks against its citizens. The ring allegedly assembled an explosive belt that was intercepted in Tel Aviv in September last year.
Following information provided by Shin Bet security service, IDF troops arrested Nablus residents Usama Halaweh, Tarek Taher, and Majdi Abu-Yassin, as well as Aiman Awad, 29, who had previously served time in Israeli prison for terrorist activity.
It emerges from a preliminary interrogation of the detainees that they had set up a makeshift explosives laboratory in a Nablus apartment and were using a videotape of Mahaned Taher, a Hamas explosive expert who was killed by IDF troops in 2002, to improve their knowledge of mixing chemicals.
Not much in the news about this. After all, no Arabs were killed in the making of these arrests.
