Senior Tul Karem area Fatah commander Raed el-Karmi, who was killed in an explosion earlier today, was linked to many terrorist attacks according to Israeli officials.

El-Karmi was reported to be in jail by PA officials, but it appears this was not the case. He was killed in an explosion near his home. PA officials are blaming the IDF but official government sources deny any connection to the death. Senior officials stated it was most likely that the master terrorist was killed while preparing a bomb.

Karmi was born in 1974 and a resident of PA-controlled Tul Karem.

In media interviews, Karmi had made it clear that he was determined to continue terrorist attacks against Israel and that he wanted to expand them. In a CNN interview on August 23, 2001, Karmi stated firmly: “We train the teenagers to carry out terrorist attacks inside Israeli territory…We train 17 and 18-year-olds to attack settlers, kidnap soldiers from inside Israel.”

In other interviews, he also described his involvement in the kidnapping and murder of two Israeli restaurateurs in Tul Karem in January 2001, Mordehai Dayan and his partner Etgar Zeitouny. They were taken out of the Abu Nidal Restaurant at gunpoint, and murdered by gunshots to their heads at pointblank range.

Karmi acted directly under Marwan Barghouti, head of the Tanzim in Judea and Samaria and was under his direct supervision.

Karmi perpetrated many terrorist attacks, including:
1. Numerous shooting attacks on IDF and Border Police bases in the Tul Karem area;

2. October 20, 2000 – Shooting attack on a bus of IDF Golani Brigade soldiers that mistakenly entered an Area A, under PA autonomous control;

3. December 7, 2000 - Shot at an Israeli vehicle near the village of Burke, seriously wounding two soldiers and a civilian.

4. January 23, 2001 – The murders of Mordehai Dayan, 27, and his partner Etgar Zeitouny.

5.May 31, 2001 – The murder of Tzvi Shalef, 63, in Baka el-Sharkiya.

6. June 18, 2001 – The murder of Danny Yehuda, 35, on the Shomron road between Chomesh and Shavei Shomron.

7. July 4, 2001 – The murder of Eliyahu Ne’eman, 36, near Baka el-Garbiye.

8. July 30, 2001 – A shooting attack that left three border policemen wounded, some seriously.

9. August 28, 2001 – The murder of Dov Rozman, 58, near Baka el-Garbiye.

10. September 6, 2001 – The murder of IDF Lt. Erez Merhavi, 21, between Kibbutz Bahan and Erez, not far from Baka el-Garbiye.

11. September 19, 2001 – Shooting attack directed at a taxi near Shavei Shomron that left three persons wounded.

12. September 28, 2001 – The attempt to infiltrate two suicide terrorists into Israel.

13. October 5, 2001 – The murder of Chananya Ben-Avraham, 45, near Avnei Chafetz.

14. October 28, 2001 – The murder of IDF Sergeant Yaniv Levy near Kibbutz Metzer.

15. October 29, 2001 – The attempted bombing attack in the Ra’anana home of naval Colonel Nathan Barak.

16. – December 15, 2001 - An abortive suicide attack in which the explosive charge blew up prematurely near Shaar Ephraim; only the terrorist was killed.

I'll betcha the Israelis are dancing on his grave.

F**k it, I'm not jewish, but I'm dancing anyway.

Now that's a damned shame.


It's a damned shame he didn't take some comrades with him.